About Cyborn — Studio Facts, Awards & Credits

Founded: 1998, Antwerp, Belgium — started as a 3D animation studio, focused mainly on games since 2019
Founder & CEO: Ives Agemans
What we do: Original VR / mixed reality games; co-development and co-production for games; animation, VFX, digital humans and motion capture services; XR applications and VR training for companies
Own titles: Wall Town Wonders (2024), Hubris (2022), Buck the Game (mobile AR), 20+ mobile and VR apps
Engines: Unreal Engine (own productions and most services), Unity (mobile and app work)
Platforms shipped: Meta Quest 2 / 3 / 3S / Pro, PlayStation VR2, PC VR (Steam, Viveport), Pico, HTC Vive XR Elite, iOS, Android
Tax shelter: Recognised producer under the Belgian Tax Shelter for video games (since 2023); Wall Town Wonders was certified as a European video game in April 2023; three further games are in production with tax shelter support
Investors: ForsVC and Koiba, minority shareholders
Supported by: VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund), Screen Flanders, Flanders DC and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance

Cyborn was founded in Antwerp in 1998 by Ives Agemans as a 3D animation studio. For two decades the team built characters, rigs and animation for commercials, apps and feature films — co-producing Ploey (2018) with GunHil and Dragon Rider (2020, on Netflix as Firedrake the Silver Dragon) with Constantin Film — and animating for games such as Horizon Forbidden West, Horizon Call of the Mountain and Metro Awakening.

From 2019 the studio put its focus on games of its own. Hubris (2022), a sci-fi VR action-adventure built entirely in-house in Unreal Engine, won Best XR Game at the Belgian Game Awards 2023. Wall Town Wonders (2024) took the studio into mixed reality with Meta’s backing and became its most awarded title: Belgian Game Awards 2025, European XR Awards 2025, AUREA Award 2026 and a selection at Venice Immersive 2025.

Today Cyborn is backed by ForsVC and Koiba, is a recognised producer under the Belgian Tax Shelter for video games, and has three titles in production next to co-development, animation, VFX and motion capture work for studios and publishers.

Wall Town Wonders — mixed reality town builder. Meta Quest 3 / 3S: 21 November 2024. PlayStation VR2 and Steam / PC VR (incl. Pico 4, Valve Index, HTC Vive): 7 May 2025. Original IP, developed and published by Cyborn with funding from Meta.
Hubris — single-player sci-fi VR action-adventure in Unreal Engine. Steam and Viveport: 7 December 2022. Meta Quest 2 / Pro and PlayStation VR2: 22 June 2023. Also on HTC Vive XR Elite. Original IP, developed and published by Cyborn.
Buck the Game — augmented reality mobile game for iOS and Android, made alongside the Ketnet (VRT) and Zodiak TV series Buck.
In production (2026) — a VR action-adventure for standalone VR (original production, self-published); an async multiplayer cosy simulation for Meta XR with a non-XR version for PC and consoles (full production, XR version self-published); and a simulation / strategy game on which Cyborn is minority co-producer and delivers the full art production. All titles to be announced; all three with Belgian Tax Shelter support.
20+ mobile and VR applications built in Unity for clients, including Star Wars and Marvel licensed apps, retail loyalty apps and VR training in the medical sector. Published on Google Play, the App Store and the Microsoft Store.

AUREA Award 2026 — Innovation Award and Vox Populi (public choice), Wall Town Wonders
European XR Awards 2025 — Best Technical Achievement, Wall Town Wonders (XR Awards Gala, Brussels)
Belgian Game Awards 2025 — Best XR Game, Wall Town Wonders
World Future Awards 2025 — Winner, Wall Town Wonders
Venice Immersive 2025 (82nd Venice International Film Festival) — Official selection, Best of Experiences, Wall Town Wonders; also shown at the 46th Cairo International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival
Belgian Game Awards 2023 — Best XR Game, Hubris
Play For Dream Game Awards 2023 — VR Game of the Year, Hubris
UploadVR Best of VR 2022 — Favorite New PC VR Game, Hubris
WN Dev Contest 2021 (Unreal Engine) — Winner, Hubris

Belgian Game Awards 2025 winner laurel — Best XR Game, Wall Town Wonders

European XR Awards 2025 winner laurel — Best Technical Achievement, Wall Town Wonders

Venice Immersive 2025 — 82nd Venice International Film Festival selection, Wall Town Wonders

46th Cairo International Film Festival, Wall Town Wonders

Belgian Game Awards 2023 winner laurel — Best XR Game, Hubris

UploadVR Best of VR 2022 laurel — Favorite New PC VR Game, Hubris

WN Dev Contest 2021 winner laurel, Hubris

Horizon Forbidden West — motion capture clean-up of over 7,000 minutes of humanoid animation
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores — motion capture cleaning and final animation
Horizon Call of the Mountain — final animation, Houdini destruction simulations, in-game Niagara VFX
Metro Awakening — Niagara VFX
Retail, loyalty and brand apps for Carrefour, Lidl, E.Leclerc, Kaufland, Air Miles, BrandLoyalty, Vanden Borre, Disney and Marvel; VR applications for UZA (Antwerp University Hospital); projects with Ketnet, Zodiak, Prophets, Bounce Rocks, Via Victor and Erasmus

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Dragon Rider (2020) — 3D animated feature, co-production with Constantin Film, world sales by Timeless Films, released worldwide on Netflix as Firedrake the Silver Dragon. Cyborn did most of the character modelling, rigging and animation.
Ploey — You Never Fly Alone (2018) — animated family feature co-produced with GunHil (Iceland). Cyborn handled the full 3D production (2016–2018), from modelling to compositing. Sold to more than 60 countries by Arri Media.
Hubris: Terraformer — 20-minute full-CGI mini-series produced in Unreal Engine 5, everything from story and concept to animation done in-house.