Bruce Straley, former co-director for a number of Uncharted and The Last of Us video games, has revealed that he’s heading a brand new studio referred to as Wildflower Interactive. It’s been about virtually 5 years since we’ve heard what Straley has been as much as. He made a surprise announcement in September 2017 that he was leaving Naughty Dog after taking a year-long sabbatical upon finishing Uncharted 4, however now he’s again with a recent begin.
What we all know thus far about Straley’s new studio and game
OMG – it’s lastly occurred!! We’re doing a factor!!!
Head over & observe @playwildflower to test us out. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/GvMM39TEdG
— Bruce Straley (@bruce_straley) July 20, 2022
From what Straley has shared in his tweet above and on the studio’s official website, Wildflower Interactive may have a crew made of business vets. The studio boasts builders who’ve beforehand labored on Pathless, Abzu, Kena, Astroneer, and the Call of Duty franchise.
The mantra of the brand new studio is “Good people, making good stuff.” This is just not an excessive amount of of a shock on condition that Straley previously revealed in an interview that he was pressured to get Uncharted 4 out the door and that it wanted “to be something good so that it didn’t put a mark on the Naughty Dog name.” Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann by some means completed the game in simply two years, however that naturally led to burnout for Straley. In the video above, he admits that in 2017 he left the business “not sure if he wanted to make games anymore.”
In response, Wildflower Interactive appears as if it would make a concerted effort to vary the tradition of crunch in game improvement. It can even be “making ‘small-ish,’ creatively-charged, uniquely-stylized games” which are extra exploratory and authentic. Luckily, it has a but undisclosed accomplice that helps what the developer is doing and “is going to help [the studio] reach the broadest audience possible.”
Wildflower Interactive is on the lookout for some builders to fill a handful of full-time positions, together with COO/Studio Manager, an Audio Designer, Environment/Technical Artist, and Character Modeler. While the developer is predicated in California, all of the positions are 100% distant.
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