Studio Ellipsis and WeaverFlow announce collaboration

STUDIO ELLIPSIS AND WEAVERFLOW ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION ON FEAR-DRIVEN STORYTELLING AND CROSS-PLATFORM WORLD-BUILDING

Partnership brings together Lisbon’s Studio Ellipsis and Silicon Valley–based WeaverFlow to craft more emotionally affecting experiences using innovative new technologies

Lisbon, Portugal — Studio Ellipsis, a FunPlus studio, today announced a creative collaboration with WeaverFlow, a Silicon Valley technology company studying how human emotion can be used to create more evocative content. Uniting Studio Ellipsis’ narrative craft with WeaverFlow’s proprietary methods, the partnership will help the game team shape assets ranging from visuals, characters, and community touch points so that they land with sharper emotional precision.

Led by industry veteran Alexandre Amancio, Studio Ellipsis is developing original IP designed to live across multiple mediums.

Through this collaboration, the studio will tap WeaverFlow’s research into the subtle patterns that signal tension, anticipation, and release to guide creative choices from early prototyping to live, community-facing activations and gameplay. The shared objective is to build worlds that feel dangerously alive, where every shadow can quicken the heart.

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“We’re designing for audiences who crave immersion” – Alex Amancio

“We’re designing for audiences who crave immersion,” said Alexandre Amancio, Head of Studio Ellipsis and Senior Vice President, World Building & IP Strategy at FunPlus. “WeaverFlow’s work gives our teams a new vocabulary for intensity. It helps us locate the moment in an encounter where we need to build tension, where we need to trigger a surprise, and even helps us model the form in which the content is delivered, all without compromising authorship or curatorial control.”

The collaboration will immediately support Nightholme, Studio Ellipsis’ upcoming action-horror universe, and its extensions across community channels. WeaverFlow’s insights will inform how players investigate mysteries, encounter entities, and unlock the deeper lore that binds the world together.

Internally, Studio Ellipsis will use these learnings to accelerate exploration of tone, pacing, and atmosphere, shortening the path from concept to content that truly unsettles.

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“Our instruments help creators see where dread gathers.” – Dr. Lucien Pyczynski

“We treat fear as a material, as something that can be traced, measured, and transformed,” said Dr. Lucien Pyczynski, CEO of WeaverFlow. “Our instruments help creators see where dread gathers and how that tension can break and be released. In FunPlus and Studio Ellipsis, we’ve found partners who can translate these metrics into playable scenes for players to enjoy, all in service of our larger work aims to build tools and practices that reduce the unnecessary fear that needlessly constrains human existence.”

This announcement reflects FunPlus’ broader move to invest in durable, cross-platform IP and the creative systems that support it. From their home in Lisbon–a city alive with fresh talent and bold ideas–Studio Ellipsis will work with WeaverFlow’s team to codify techniques for fear-aware world-building for the first time.

The companies also plan to share selected case studies that demonstrate how a fear-informed approach can increase iteration speed while safeguarding privacy, ethics, and strong human authorship. Amancio added, “Together with WeaverFlow, we’re building new ways to listen to audiences, and to shape experiences that people will talk about for years.”

About FunPlus

FunPlus is one of the largest privately held companies in all of gaming. Founded in 2010, it is a global creator of interactive entertainment experiences powered by technology, with cross-platform game development and IP creation at its core. FunPlus is an organization that fosters top industry talent, with around 2,000 team members based in offices and studios across the world. These talented creative teams are well-known for developing hugely popular cross-platform titles, including DC: Dark Legion, State of Survival, King of Avalon, Guns of Glory, Stormshot, Sea of Conquest, Misty Continent, Tiles Survive, and Foundation: Galactic Frontier.

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About Studio Ellipsis

Studio Ellipsis, a FunPlus studio, focuses on world-building, intellectual property (IP) development, and cross-platform game innovation for the audiences of tomorrow. Founded by Alex Amancio, the studio is located in Lisbon, Portugal. It combines experienced industry professionals with emerging talent, promoting collaboration across teams in Europe and Asia to leverage diverse perspectives and craft fresh and original transmedia entertainment experiences.

Visit www.studioellipsis.com/ to find out more.

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About WeaverFlow

WeaverFlow is a Silicon Valley–based technology company building production-ready tools for interactive entertainment. Its platform combines adaptive narrative systems, multimodal content generation, and audience insight to help studios prototype faster, operate smarter, and deliver richer, more responsive experiences across games, community platforms, and screen media.

Visit www.weaverflow.com/ to find out more.