Podium Voor Verhalen: Dutch Game Week x TURF
Discover how Dutch Game Week and TURF bring Breda to life in this special edition of Podium voor Verhalen. Experience how creativity, technology, and collaboration shape the city’s future, where games, art, and music merge to inspire innovation and imagination.
In the Explore Breda Store, you’ll find highlights from both festivals, including The Knightling by Breda-based studio Twirlbound and inspiring maker stories from TURF. Get a glimpse of how Breda is becoming the city of creative solutions; a place where ideas grow, makers connect, and new worlds take shape.
Twirlbound was founded on the 6th of August 2013 by high school friends Marc Peyré and Matthijs van de Laar while they were both in game dev school, studying for a bachelor’s degree in programming and design and production respectively. During this time, they dabbled in the art and business of game development, while looking for more partners in crime to hit the ground running with their company after graduation. With Pine as their last school project and first commercial project, they continued development on their ambitious open world title, all the while they reached out to a few more ex-classmates who had now gotten some important AAA experience on their portfolios.
The 7 of Twirlbound were finally ready to launch their now award-winning open world title in October 2019 to great success. The team knew that the genre and technical niche of open world action adventures is what they wanted to become good at, and they started development on their second title soon after: The Knightling.
The Knightling is an open world action-adventure game in which you play as an aspiring knight in search of their missing mentor, Sir Lionstone. Equipped with only a legendary shield, you’ll brave your way through the lands of Clesseia to become the unlikely hero.
