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Double Eleven Builds Second Home in Kuala Lumpur

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Double Eleven may not be a name that everyone is familiar with when it comes to gaming but they’ve been working on some of the largest IPs in the industry. The studio is behind games like Minecraft Dungeons, Rust and Prison Architect. They’ve even recently announced that they will be working on Fallout 76 with Bethesda. However, the most exciting news coming from the game studio is that they’ve opened a new studio in Kuala Lumpur.

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Laura Brodie (Head of People & Culture, Double Eleven), Iain Farrell (Programme Manager, Double Eleven), Amir Azlan Sapuan (Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation) and Mark South (COO, Double Eleven) at the Launch of Double Eleven Kuala Lumpur

The new studio is the next step in Double Eleven’s growth. The studio is headquartered in Teeside, UK and expanded to Malaysia in 2020. Since they’ve grown to a team of over 60 people in Malaysia alone. The studio which previously was located in Bangsar South has now acquired a new home in Mid Valley in Kuala Lumpur.

The new 12,000 square feet location embodies Double Eleven’s ethos of putting people at the forefront. The studio was thoughtfully designed and kitted with equipment, rooms and spaces that a modern game studio would need. The studio features a combination of meeting rooms, breakout spaces, play testing areas and even social areas. Their reception alone is a large social space kitted with a pool table and even free beverages to help relieve the stresses of everyday work.

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“We’re excited to celebrate this milestone in expanding our studio’s people-first ethos into Malaysia, creating new opportunities for the highly capable pool of local talents. Combined, both studios position Double Eleven for the future to continue creating and publishing great games,” said

Mark South, COO of Double Eleven.

The new studio in Kuala Lumpur is also an emblem of the studio’s people focused development and management approach of Double Eleven. The company has adopted an anti-crunch stance in light of some of the developments happening in the gaming industry. Talent at Double Eleven enjoy benefits such as flexible start times, paid voluntary overtime and additional leave. These are some of the small changes that have made the studio one of the best employers in the industry.

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Double Eleven’s new studio also allows them to adopt a continuous development schedule as teams in the UK and Malaysia work closely and successively according to their timezones. The 24-hour development cycle allows them to better optimise workflows and prevent the much-dreaded crunch. Double Eleven is still growing and is actively recruiting people in both the UK and Malaysia.

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Minecraft Dungeons Available Everywhere Now

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Minecraft is a huge game. Say what you want about Minecraft and its weird boxy graphics that you cannot take seriously; the game is one of the most popular video games you can find today. Its online community is also one of the biggest in the gaming community. Plus, they are all very nice people and also very creative. There are people who make a living out of building things in the Minecraft game world. Someone did a measurement of the map size of Minecraft and it is multiple times the size of GTA’s game world. It is that big, it is not a child’s game.

There is more to Minecraft than meets the eye though. The sandbox platform is not just about players going in, gathering materials and then building large, mega-buildings to be shown off to the internet. There is some adventure involved around the game as well. There are elements of survival within the game. All these was always available for PC gamers, and they create their own Minecraft journey.

Minecraft Dungeons: Official Launch Trailer

For beginners then, the game can be quite overwhelming. The vast map, the emptiness of the maps, the endless possibilities. While plenty of gamers enjoy that, there are some that would like more curated approaches to their game storyline. They prefer to indulge in stories rather than creating them. That is the idea behind Minecraft Dungeons, another original project from Minecraft’s developers, Mojang Studios.

We have not had any experience with the game itself, if we are being honest. So we can only comment on what we have seen so far. So far, it looks like dungeon hack-and-slash that we are plenty used to. Minecraft Dungeons can easily be mistaken for a boxier version of Diablo or Torchlight. Those are brilliant games, by the way.

This is not a completely solo experience though. You can co-op with your friends to get to the end of the Minecraft Dungeons journey. We are not entirely sure if there is cross platform playability just yet. Still, playing games online with your friends is a part of socialising these days.

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While Minecraft was created for PC, Minecraft dungeons is made available for all platforms including Playstation 4 thanks to the co-development of the game with Double Eleven. Double Eleven is the team behind the ever so popular Goat Simulator by the way. The online aspect of Minecraft Dungeon is also worked by Double Eleven if you must know. For your information too, Double Eleven has a Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia studio and they are looking for talents to join them for future projects. You can find out more from their website.

Minecraft Dungeons is available now for PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. On PC, you can get your hands on the new title on Microsoft Store for MYR 78. There are at least three planned DLCs for the game to be announced on a later date.