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Retro Studios writer/cinematic designer leaving after 2 years
- Thread starter Momo
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or maybe he found other work and moved on from what he did at Retro and the work is still ongoing?
Considering almost every western studio's (including Retro despite being owned by Nintendo) employees work on contractual basis and you don't move on until your job is done, nah.
Can some insider confirm that Retro isnt falling apart? Please, we havent seen a new game from them in over four or five years.
or maybe the project got canceled and Retro is starting it again from scratch.
Believe it or not, the gap between DK Returns and DK Tropical Freeze was almost 4 years lol.
Oh dear, this must mean that Retro's project is in trouble! Retro is doomed!!! /s
In all honesty I don't think this really means anything. People join and leave companies all the time for various reasons we aren't privy to. Unless this person is more significant than I realise, I don't think we should be holding our breath for anything.
In all honesty I don't think this really means anything. People join and leave companies all the time for various reasons we aren't privy to. Unless this person is more significant than I realise, I don't think we should be holding our breath for anything.
No it wasn't. It was 3 years and like 2 months. Even then it was really 3 years because Nintendo wanted to space the schedule so they pushed TF a few months later.
Actually it got canceled and we'll have to wait three more ye-
Dammit
I mean, he's the lead writer for the studio so that's fairly important.
This is a lot less important than Stephen Dupree (Retro's lead game designer) leaving back in September, but he's still at an important position.
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I'm pretty sure she was. She left along with Retro's lead game designer to make this Metroid inspired PS VR game.
Seems like a lot is pointing to Retro's game being revealed at E3. This guy was the lead writer. He came in and did his job and moved on.
DKCTF was meant to be a fall/holiday 2013 title but was pushed back for whatever reason (maybe that Mario was pushed forward)
Even then, it's closer to 3 years. It's been over 4 years since TF was release and the game has yet to be announced
Okay, this is rather tangential, but I am left wondering...
Did any of the mass migrations of Retro folks ever lead to largely positive results for those who left?
(This is not an example of a mass migration -- I'm just curious, and the concept of folks leaving Retro came up.)
Did any of the mass migrations of Retro folks ever lead to largely positive results for those who left?
(This is not an example of a mass migration -- I'm just curious, and the concept of folks leaving Retro came up.)
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She left September 2017 with Retro's lead game designer, Stephen Dupree, to make Star Child. A PS VR game heavily... let's say inspired by Metroid.
No, he writes comedy fantasy. They've hired fantasy writers and not sci-fi writers.
Though obviously people can write different types of things.
Bluepoint games was founded by one of the Lead Engineers on MP1 and MP2. There are some other ex Retro folks who joined him at Blupoint as well.
Writing work can go real fucking close to the end of production. The writing/story work for Doom 2016 apparently happened, as they'd describe, "irresponsibly late in the game." Not saying the person was fired or things went wrong, but the narrative is never "finished" until the game actually is.
Oh comedy fantasy. I figured they can write any genre, but you said they hired Fantasy writers.
No, you didn't. I just thought he was a sci-fi writer.
