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Studio MDHR

Studio MDHR is a fairly new indie game developer with their founding being in October 2013 by two brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer who wanted to make a game that combined their love for retro arcade games and vintage cartoons which would eventually culminate into their main title Cuphead in 20 17. Studio MDHR is a company that was founded in Oakville Ontario and is reported to have around 20 employees at the moment with all of them working remotely. For their main game of Cuphead, it was reported that they used Unity engine to make the game with a very bare-bones budget of only what the brothers could bring together and a small amount of money they received from Xbox they were able to bring in an estimated 48 million off of Cuphead when it released. So far StudioMDHR has only worked with Netflix to produce a Cuphead show and other than that has been working on an expansion to Cuphead which was released in 2022 called The Delicious Last Course. Overall Cuphead is the biggest accomplishment of the studio so far with the only real criticism it's faced being that people wanted their content sooner and while it’s not really criticism there are people worried that this studio won’t be able to make another game to the level that they made Cuphead. Overall though Studio MDHR has taken an unusual path compared to other indie developers due to the fact that the very first game they put out became a huge hit along with all of the other content that was made about or to add on to the original game but with all that success comes a much higher expectation for them to put out something even better although given there track record it doesn’t seem like something that should be all that concerning.