Dragomir Mrsic, Payday 2's Dragan, co-founds narrative-action game studio with five years of groundwork
Summary
Swedish actor Dragomir Mrsic is co-founding a game studio with author Per Anders Hovbom after five years of quiet development
The studio targets narrative-action games inspired by real events - no name, title, or funding disclosed yet
Mrsic's Payday 2 role as Dragan gives him rare franchise recognition among first-time studio founders
"We're going to create entertainment in games inspired by real events, with powerful experiences where both the story and the action feel authentic"
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Hazelight's trajectory makes this the second Swedish actor-to-founder bet worth tracking
Josef Fares made the same actor-to-studio-founder transition before building Hazelight into a commercially proven narrative studio
It Takes Two won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021; Split Fiction launched strong in 2025
That precedent gives VCs and publishers a reference model for evaluating Mrsic's venture
Five years of pre-announcement development suggests stress-tested concept, not impulse
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Writing-first leadership and real-event grounding define the creative bet
Co-founding with author Per Anders Hovbom signals a writing-first production philosophy
"Real events" as source material points toward grounded narratives, not fantasy or sci-fi defaults
No genre label, engine, platform, or release window has been disclosed
For publishers scouting narrative-action pitches, the creative framework is legible even without a title
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