Makes me truly curious what sort of twists they might bring to the game. Unrelated, but I'm playing Wylde Flowers on Apple Arcade, and the entire game is very explicitly pro women and pro LGBT+!
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Thanks Ryan Stevenson, art director of Sea of Thieves and Everwild.
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That's awesome! And it's great seeing another talented developer join the team at Everwild.
Wow...thanks indeed. I still download sea of thieves every now and then just to experience the visuals and sailing. Have little to no interest in the rest of the game....
As far as I'm concerned that's as set in stone as we can get without an official announce from Xbox. Glad it is staying put where it always has been because I took E3 week off, as always! haha
I agree it's nice to see Xbox sticking to tradition even if it would have been nice to see a showcase in May.
You never know what you're going to get when Bethesda and Uncle Pete are in charge of marketing lol.
platinum done….we can wait the news about acquisition. Babylon fall made them a easy purchase since the flop. ( i don't know nothing but i m sur they want to be rescue and their price now is less than what they wanted first).
Oh noooo, that's awful :/ Speedy recovery to you and may you find that voice and sleep back quickly! An hour of sleep a day sounds terrible. I hope you got some people around you who can do some groceries for you etc. I never caught Covid but my sister and her family has and I really don't want to get it myself. They say 15 minutes in a crammed room can be enough to catch it.
I want to pre-order but I can't find it in the store...Day one for me. Loved the demo.
I thought I was immune to Covid as I had had contacts with infected people several times, but then the omicron variant caught me finally around Christmas last year.
Covid wasn't particularly harsh for me, a slight sore throat and that's it, but the worst part were bouts of fatigue for about 6 weeks after getting infected. Like, I wake up on a random day and my legs feel like made of concrete, or being immediately tired when trying to concentrate. I'd never had something like that in my life, luckily it went away eventually.
Speedy recovery, In Amber Clad !
Yeah, if the MS show is around June 10, it's ~90 days from now. That's close enough at this point and will come before we know it.
Hope they can hold the momentum for the rest of the generation should supply issues cease. That would make it difficult for developers to skip the console. Market share matters and in a lot of cases it decides the amount of software available to your platform.
What you are seeing is simply a realization of that fact.
XSX can't be called a "game console" until it has Aerith in 4K.
And i mean it.
BTW, It's a joke, please don't ban me.
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Dan Neuburger, Game Director on Perfect Dark, has moved on from The Initiative. He was there for a good 3 years and 8 months. I think I slowly start to get the idea behind The Initiative. It looks like it's basically a studio that kicks off a project and carries it through concept, prototype and full pre-production phases, then carrying it over to full-production with assistance of another studio that has the needed manpower, in this case Crystal Dynamics. That also explains the "staying small & agile" comment and also ... The studio's name. While I realise some people will doom & gloom over it again, It could potentially also mean the game is further ahead than people think. 2023 could be on the table I think.
Thanks! I'm hoping things turn around soon, but last night was the worst night so far. I was barely able to snatch minutes of sleep at a time.
The positive side is that, other than my throat feeling like the worst sore throat I could ever possibly imagine, the rest of me seems to be OK.
Thanks! My initial symptoms were fairly mild, but then my throat got way worse pretty much overnight :/ even drinking water stings a bit. I am a bit concerned about lasting effects too, as it seems to be quite common. I just hope my voice isn't permanently damaged - I can barely make a sound right now.
Thank you!
Because their work on the prototype phase of the game is done. Crystal Dynamics can take over.
Yes. But does that mean like in the case Neuburger, that he comes back for the next game?
I'd expect his work to be done basically. People often leave after a project is done, that's common in game dev. I agree that it would obviously optimal if all people stay and teams stays completely intact beyond a project, but that's rarely the case. Not even studios like Naughty Dog achieve that.
It's always hard to tell from the outside, I'm not really in the position to judge over a personal decision that could have many causes.
Just trying to link it to "small and agile" really. But if everyone leaves after the pre production is done then i dont know.
I don't want to doom and gloom over it, but your conclusion that the game is doing better than expected because the game director left is odd. A game director leaving mid-development very rarely means anything good. No doom & gloom'ing--but seeing it as a positive sign is just weird to me. People here were convinced that Crystal Dynamics were basically a support studio when the collaboration was announced, and now apparently all the Initiative does is create the concept of the game before moving on? I don't think it works that way. A game director usually sees the project to its launch.
Just trying to make my logical conclusions here really. If you think it means the project is in trouble, then so it shall be. That's fine. I get it, even. It's not "a good look" from the outside, I even would agree with that.
I think it means Perfect Dark is a 2023 candidate. Make out of that what you want.
I hope the project isn't in trouble and the game director might have left because of personal reasons, unrelated to the project's progress. I just don't see it as a positive sign. It's not necessarily a negative sign, but it's not a positive sign, either.
Probably not. Notice how the key positions are leaving? They most likely want to move onto other projects since they are big names. New directors will join, old ones will leave. But I think they will float around the 60 people mark. They are basically and incubation team.
I always thought PD was farther along than the public think it is. Look at some of the recent job listing Franchise Direct and Franchise art Director
I never said it's a "positive sign" though. I said this might mean the game is further ahead in dev than we thought. And I stand by that. That's a neutral conclusion. Again, it could also mean bad things. We simply don't know.
Maybe the new Game Director is at Crystal Dynamics now. There must be someone leading the project on their side when The Initiative partnered with them last September.
Because Crystal Dynamics doesn't seem to be just a support or outsourcing studio to me. Rather co-dev.
Because Crystal Dynamics doesn't seem to be just a support or outsourcing studio to me. Rather co-dev.
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EXACTLY ! There has been some Job listing at the initiative for Example Art Director position was fulfilled but there is no art director at the initiative. So the art director must be at Crystal Dynamics
From Darrell's past comments about TI, the studio was never meant to operate like any other studio/developer in the industry. Btw TI and CD there will be some overlaps also CD made the first TR reboot while Darell was studio head and btw TI and CD I believe most of the major roles needed to bring PD to completion are covered....also this is just speculation on my part but if this goes well I wouldn't be surprised if MS tried to purchase CD.
I agree with The initiative goal, the studio himself said that they want to find a new way to deliver AAA games but I don't think that it's the reason because he leave.
If we have new job listing with Game Director that mean, it's not the case. But maybe is also some crystal dynamics game director who take the lead over him.
At this point MS should just cop CD to Square.
Most of the workforce must be at Crystal Dynamics now (not including outsourcing) because The Initiative never did mass hiring like Playground with their new Fable team, like 130+ job offers since 1 year or so. TI always remained around 60-70 on LinkedIn (57 atm) with around 4 to 20 job offers depending of the time I believe.
Only 3 currently (was 12 some weeks ago iirc) :
- Franchise Art Director
- Senior AI Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
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Compare it with Playground (130+ last time I counted early 2022)
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Only 3 currently (was 12 some weeks ago iirc) :
- Franchise Art Director
- Senior AI Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
Careers - THE INITIATIVE
We are looking for collaborative team members who are passionate about their craft and creating a thoughtful, inclusive culture.
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Compare it with Playground (130+ last time I counted early 2022)
Careers - Playground Games
As a team, we are passionate about quality and innovation and we’re always looking for great people who can help us push further. If that sounds like you, have a look below at all of the positions we currently have open at Playground. If you can’t see a position that’s right for you, we welcome...
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