A galaxy to build.
An independent studio making Empire, an upcoming third-person action-adventure game.
The Souk Galaxy is an indie studio in greater Montreal, Canada, built on ten years inside the industry: Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast, Quantic Dream, MPC, Ivory Tower, Kylotonn, Reflector, Invoke, Elite3D, 1047 Games.
Najim Filali Saksak
Ten years in games from artist to art director. Najim designs and builds the studio's software and games end to end, from the first sketch to the build that ships.
Myriam Lafortune
Myriam runs everything around the work: the community, communications, and the books. The studio holds together because she does.
Indie on purpose.
Indie means every decision is the studio's to make and to answer for. Najim illustrates every world and every character in Empire himself, then builds the game in Unity with tools he wrote. He believes the tools a pipeline depends on should be ownable by the people who use them, so when the app he needed didn't exist, he built that too. It's slower this way. It's also why the game looks like nothing else.
What's next.
Key art by Najim Filali Saksak Empire
In developmentA third-person action-adventure game with stealth and large-scale exploration, coming to PC and Mac on Steam. More to share when it's ready.
Get in touch.
Work, press, or a word about Empire. It reaches Najim directly.