Mytona
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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Alexey and Afanasiy Ushnisky[1] |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Website | www |
Mytona is a video game company headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
History
Mytona was founded in 2012 by brothers Alexey and Afanasey Ushnitsky in Yakutsk, Russia and has offices in Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Serbia.[2][3] The brothers said to have started developed casual PC games in 2004 and by 2020, they stated to have 1,000 employees, mostly in Yakutsk.[4]
Games
Seekers Notes
In 2015, Mytona released a hidden object game titled Seekers Notes. It is a mystery genre game set in the town of Darkwood. Users play as the Seeker, the chosen one, the possessor of a powerful artefact — the Magical Map, and the aim is to save Darkwood from an evil curse.
Ravenhill: Hidden Mystery
This hidden object game was released in 2015.[5] The game was shut down in 2020.
Cooking Diary
In 2018, Mytona released a time management game. In 2019, Cooking Diary[6] won "People's Choice Award" at the 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards.[7] in San Francisco. In 2020, Cooking Diary won "People's Voice" at the Webby Awards 2020.[8] In October 2020, Mytona collaborated with the streaming service Netflix, resulting in the Cooking Diary x Stranger Things Halloween update.[9]
Propnight
In 2021, the company published the 4v1 physics-based prop hunt survival Propnight,[10] a multiplayer game, for the developer Fntastic. The game was shut down in 2024.
The Day Before
Mytona published on Steam an MMO survival game The Day Before developed by Fntastic, which was panned by critics.[11] The game was released in 2023 and shut down soon after its release.
Mytonaverse
At the end of 2021, the company launched its own metaverse, Mytonaverse.[12]
Other games
In 2023, Mytona released two new projects: Outfire (a multiplayer competitive top-down shooter) and Chef & Friends (a time management game).[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Two Siberian twin brothers in New Zealand want to build the metaverse". 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Even in Siberia, you can make a game with 30M downloads in today's global game market". VentureBeat. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ Obedkov, Evgeny (2022-06-21). "Report: up to 2500 Russian devs lost jobs over last month following mass layoffs at top game studios". Game World Observer. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ "GI 100 | Game Changers -- Part Nine". GamesIndustry.biz. 17 December 2020.
- ^ "15th IMGA - RAVENHILL®: HIDDEN MYSTERY".
- ^ "4 best cooking game apps". Softonic. 19 September 2018.
- ^ "Cooking Diary fans vote MyTona for People's Choice Award!". 11 April 2019.
- ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". webbyawards.com.
- ^ Partleton, Kayleigh; Writer, Staff (13 October 2020). "MyTona teams with Netflix to bring Stranger Things to Cooking Diaries". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ Purslow, Matt (2021-10-15). "Propnight Is a New Multiplayer Horror That Crosses Dead By Daylight With Goosebumps". IGN. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ The Day Before: Exclusive New Gameplay Trailer and More! - IGN, 15 October 2021, retrieved 2022-03-18
- ^ Obedkov, Evgeny (2021-12-09). "Developer and publisher MYTONA soft-launches its own metaverse". Game World Observer. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
Further reading
- Черникова, Настя (8 April 2015). "Якутский квест: Братья Ушницкие зарабатывают миллионы на играх". Секрет фирмы (in Russian).
- "Якутяне в соцсетях спорят о том, любят ли братья Ушницкие из MYTONA родину". Sakhaday.ru (in Russian). 23 March 2022.
- Keall, Chris (12 December 2023). "The Day Before, published by Auckland's MyTona, was the world's most anticipated video game. Four days after launch, it was shut down". The New Zealand Herald.
