Jade Raymond, her five co-founders and about 20 ex-Google employees in Montreal founded Haven Studios almost on the sly a year ago in the Quebec metropolis. The company prides itself on "having the latitude of an independent publisher and the resources of a major studio. The trick: Haven's main financial backer is the Sony Group. The Japanese giant asked Raymond and her team to submit three blockbuster game projects, and then fund the development of the one deemed best.
"They finally asked us to do two, or even three, but we decided to focus on a first title to start with," says Jade Raymond, who was interviewed by Le Devoir alongside Paola Jouyaux and Pierre-François "Sapin" Sapinski, two of the other five founders of Haven Studios.