KRIYA STUDIOS

Kriya Studios (Stylized as KRIYA STUDIOS) is an American YouTube channel and multimedia studio founded on May 14, 2018, by video game designers Edmund Ahlström (born: ) and Sean Ahlström (born: ). The studio is known for producing video games, comics, and "shows" that are unknown when its made on the official website. 
==History==
===The Beginning ===
The Kriya Studios YouTube channel was created on March 23, 2018, but the channel hasn't posted any videos. However, Edmund created a Twitter account for Kriya Studios and started posting tweets related to The Road That Falls.
On May 14, 2018, Edmund posted an image of a document that Kriya Studios was legally registered as a game company. On his Instagram, he posted concept art and teasers for The Road that Falls, and would later announce that the game was going to be released on PlayStation 4 exclusively, the Playable Teaser (P.T.) was nearly complete and was also released on PC. Later in August of 2018, Edmund hired Breim as a modeler for the team.
In September of 2022, Sean made an announcement post on the site that they're announcing a live event showcase called KSM Expo (short for Kriya Studios Media), which would showcase a number of the Studio's upcoming projects. They wanted to invite everyone to their event at 12 PM since they have a lot to showcase what they've been working on behind closed doors. Kriya Studios went live on Twitch at 12 PM, it showcased game trailers for their upcoming projects including Desolation, a return of Edmund's old FNaF fan game series, MaD MiND, A Split in Reality an upcoming comic novel that is illustrated by Sean, TYCRAZ, based on a beloved Studio's character, and The Road That Falls. Months later, Kriya started to upload videos about the ARG for "There Exists". Later, Sean posted a screenshot on his Twitter, showcasing the pause menu of a horror game. Four days later, the Kriya Studios TikTok account teased to release in 2023, with a similar title to Sean's Tweet: "122414".
On January 10, 2023, the Kriya Studios website went under a rebranding, and on the front page, a link to Phase 1 lies the title that "There Exists" is a game. On February 6, Sean uploaded three images showcasing the game being played on PlayStation 5, confirming that they're a partner of Sony. Later, Sean would make another announcement post on the site that he's introducing a new event called KSM Expo 2023. However, the expo was delayed to April to June of 2024, because the studio was in the process of relocating all of its hardware and resources to another state, and for multiple reasons Edmund mentioned.
On May 27, 2023, Tycrazmania was removed from the site along with Desolation. The reason for its removal was due to its brand merging with TYCRAZ to combine both the story and gameplay together.
=== Association with TRTF ===
One of the members of Kriya, Collin Miller was developing The Return to Freddy's 2 Remastered, as an unofficial remake without any involvement with Kriya Studios or Edmund. However, in September 2020, it was announced that Collin and Kriya had partnered up and the remakes were going to be official. In March of 2021, Breim uploaded a teaser image with a text saying "Today", showcasing the room with arcade props. Later, the Desolation was confirmed as the official entry of the TRTF Saga and a remake of the original game that Breim worked on. On May 4, 2021, Collin made a post about the game's details when he first started making TRTF2 he hadn't met Edmund at the time, until a year later when Collin asked Edmund if he would voice act for his game. Collin also released of photo of a real-life person who was told that it was Cawnoth's physical appearance. The image was later deleted due to it looking too rushed and felt that it didn't look very good.
In 2022, Collin would release teaser images for TRTF2, which showcases the theater, and the room of what is supposed to be Cawnoth's house (the bedroom was also seen in one of the old builds for the game). He would later try announcing that he'd revive The Return to Freddy's 3 Remastered as of June 2022. However, the game wasn't in the works, but it featured the new logo of the game and concept art of the Vigo animatronic. However, on October 20, 2022, Sean posted on the Kriya Studios website, that Collin's TRTF remakes would be discontinued, due to Collin having a lack of motivation toward the games and not interest in the project's direction. On September 18, 2022, Sean would announce for a live event showcase called KSM Expo was being hosted by him and Edmund. On the live event, it first showcased the second trailer for Desolation along with various other projects from Kriya.
Collin would later try announcing that he'd revive The Return to Freddy's 3 Remastered. However, the game wasn't in the works, but it featured the new logo of the game and concept art of the Vigo animatronic. However, on October 20, 2022, Sean posted on the Kriya Studios website, that Collin's TRTF remakes would be discontinued, due to Collin having a lack of motivation toward the games and not interest in the project's direction.
On May 27, 2023, the page for Desolation was removed from the site. It was announced by Breim that Desolation will no longer be associated with Kriya Studios. The reasoning behind this was due to the game being a fan game, and since Kriya Studios is a company that profits off of original IPs, it wouldn't make sense for it to be supported by the company. However, that didn't stop the development of the game. Along with this news, Breim had also stated that Tycrazmania had been removed from the studio, and is instead merging with TYCRAZ to combine both the story and gameplay together.
==Impersonation Accounts==
Kriya Studios made a post on Twitter that it went unfortunately Bankrupt. However, Collin Miller, the developer of the now-canceled official remake of The Return to Freddy's Series, confirms that the Kriya Studios Bankruptcy was fakehttps://gamejolt.com/x/permalink/comment/5013405.
Many people thought that the Kriya Studios bankruptcy was real, the Twitter account of Kriya Studios was a parody account made by someone else.
In 2022, Kriya Studios made an announcement post on the TRTF Wiki that The Return to Freddy's Saga will be on the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, a non-canon book called The Return To Freddy's: Tortured Tales and Major story revamp. However, a user responded to Edmund with an email that confirmed the account was not real. Any information outside of the site is automatically fake/invalid.
==Employees==
*Edmund Ahlström
* Sean Ahlström
* Breim
* Collin Miller
* Zevari Norman
* Devaun Ahlström
* Emily Bailey
* Nicholas Mock
* Sigrid Rodríguez
* Biscuits
==Productivity==
===Games=== 
*The Road That Falls
*The Road That Falls V (Rebranding)
*MaD MiND
*TYCRAZ
*There Exists
===Comics=== 
*A Split in Reality
===Shows===
TBA
==Gallery==
File:KriyaStudios Icon.png|The original icon for Kriya Studios until Christmas 2022.
File:Kriya profile pic cropped.png|Ditto, without the yellow handprint in 2018.
File:5e0301f1-2589-4b1c-b1f2-340f6100ce4a-profile banner-480 (1).png|The original version of the banner.
File:Kriya_Studios_Banner.png|Ditto.
File:00110001_YtBanner.jpg|Ditto, after the "00110001" video was posted from their YouTube channel.
E27d00_b10d3a0bf944Emv2.png|Ditto.
File:NewKriyaBanner.jpg|The current version of the banner.
28428187_33524650031623n.jpg|The white hand with the eye in the center from Edmund's Instagram.
==Trivia==
*The eye in the center of the white hand image was reused from the Ahlström Productions logo, a short-lived group when it was run by Edmund at the time.
*The studio has a cat named Biscuits, listed on the website as an Unpaid Support Associate.
** There's another cat seen in some pictures posted on Sean Ahlström's Twitter. The cat's name is unknown, however, Sean has confirmed that this cat is one of the executive producers.
*This studio seems to be a successor of Sabani Games, another group that Edmund founded, but this is just a coincidence.
*Kriya Studios had an old website called kriyastudios.com. 
**If you type "kriyastudios.com", it redirects to hugedomains.com. However, kriyastudios.com was archived in the Wayback Machinehttps://web.archive.org/web/20210201084323/https://www.kriyastudios.com/.
==References==
Category:Users who joined in 2018
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers