Did you know Dusty Revenge was produced by a multimedia company?

When you combine an angry anthromorphic bunny exacting his revenge on the goons who killed his lady love with technically-superb beat-em-up gameplay, you’ve got one hell of a game on your hands.

That’s what Singapore-based PD Design Studio found themselves with last year, when Dusty Revenge was released. The half-Western, half-fantastic brawler was lauded for its gameplay and panned for its weak story, and has since spawned a Steam edition that supports local co-op play.

See: Dusty Revenge Co-op Edition out today!

But did you know that the superb beat-em-up Dusty Revenge was made by a team completely new to game development?

Dusty Revenge: genesis

Ken Poh, left; KJ Poh, right.

PD Design Studio, developer of the technically-superb Dusty Revenge, began life in 2006 as a multimedia company. The firm, founded by brothers Ken Poh and KJ Poh, produced graphic design, CD-roms, and even videos. But even at that stage, the projects the studio took up had one thing in common: they were usually flash games.

At that point in time, the Singapore government was going big on games. Agencies like the National Environment Agency, the Public Utilities Board, and the Central Narcotics Bureau all had their own flash games. If you’ve busted mosquitoes, drug lords, or saved some water online, chances are, you’ve played an early PD Design Studio creation.

But Ken, 36, and KJ, 38, weren’t satisfied with just that. Between 2007 and 2008, Singapore’s Media Development Authority started handing out prototyping grants. This meant that applicants of the grant only needed to finish a prototype in order to receive the funding. PD Design Studio created their first iteration of Dusty, where he was a cute fuzzy wabbit instead of a badass bunny.

Cute!Dusty as featured in the studio’s Dusty Rehash: Cloned Edition.

It was in 2010 that the studio applied for and received a Media Development Authority grant for a full game. That game would go on to be Dusty Revenge.