OUCH
Studios.

We started building maps to scare our friends. Not much about that has changed.

Ouch was a group long before it was a studio. TRAUMA was the first thing we put out, and it was a debut in every sense of the word. DUMMY followed, then MENTAL, then RITUAL. We learned the craft in public, one map at a time, with everyone watching.

Most of us came out of film school and it shows. The first thing we do with a new idea is storyboard it. We will spend longer arguing about how a corridor is lit than about what is waiting at the end of it — because the lighting is the reason you walk slower.

The scariest part of a horror map is almost never the monster. It’s the twenty seconds before you’re certain there is one.

BELOW was picked up by Epic. SANITY and DISTURBED found audiences we had not planned for. HOMELESS and EVICTED let us push environment work further than Fortnite maps usually go. Across all of it, players have spent more than 258 million minutes inside rooms we built.

SEALED was the biggest build we had taken on — one to four players, one facility, and a great deal more that could go wrong. It taught us more about pacing a long session than anything that came before it. Everything we have is pointed at the next one now.

Four of us, working as OAV Studios AB out of Sweden. If you have played something of ours, thank you — genuinely. If you haven’t, start with BELOW and turn the lights off.

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