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You are given a $100 Million dollar budget to produce your own game, Who do you hire?
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-Genre : ARPG
-Director : Hidetaka Miyazaki
-Writer: YokoTaro and Neil Druckmann
-Artist: Scott Sinclair (Bioshock) and Shigenori Soejima (Persona)
-Composer: Shoji Meguro (Persona)
-Director : Hidetaka Miyazaki
-Writer: YokoTaro and Neil Druckmann
-Artist: Scott Sinclair (Bioshock) and Shigenori Soejima (Persona)
-Composer: Shoji Meguro (Persona)
My bugshit crazy idear.
Kanye West Presents Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. Hubris Cubed.
-Genre : Tactical Strategy ala Total War with Palace Intrigue Adventure Game and Insane Psychedelic Historical Virtual Tourism.
-Director : Ken Levine for Creative Assembly, with Steven Spielberg producing.
-Writer: Stanley Kubrick's ol' unfinished ambitious as hell screenplay for the basis.
-Artist: Kanye playing Napoleon. Visuals would steer more towards historical photo-realism, I guess.
-Composer: Kanye with Mick Gordon doing the heavy lifting.
Kanye West Presents Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. Hubris Cubed.
-Genre : Tactical Strategy ala Total War with Palace Intrigue Adventure Game and Insane Psychedelic Historical Virtual Tourism.
-Director : Ken Levine for Creative Assembly, with Steven Spielberg producing.
-Writer: Stanley Kubrick's ol' unfinished ambitious as hell screenplay for the basis.
-Artist: Kanye playing Napoleon. Visuals would steer more towards historical photo-realism, I guess.
-Composer: Kanye with Mick Gordon doing the heavy lifting.
Honestly, I'd probably spend a chunk convincing Konami to sell me or at least license me the Suikoden IP and then the rest coaxing Miki Higashino back to do the music. But if I've got to do my own thing...
Genre: Strategy; the pitch is a grand strategy adaptation of the Peloponnesian War.
Director: Soren Johnson
Writers: Taylor Mac and Enda Walsh; this is an extravagant waste of money when most of the game's writing will be instructional rather than dramatic, but if I've got the budget, I'd love to supplement all the Thucydides quotations with funny (but thoroughly-researched) bits that will give the game a distinctive tone. I'm thinking here of how much the writing added to Alpha Centauri.
Artist: ???
Composer: Christopher Tin
Genre: Strategy; the pitch is a grand strategy adaptation of the Peloponnesian War.
Director: Soren Johnson
Writers: Taylor Mac and Enda Walsh; this is an extravagant waste of money when most of the game's writing will be instructional rather than dramatic, but if I've got the budget, I'd love to supplement all the Thucydides quotations with funny (but thoroughly-researched) bits that will give the game a distinctive tone. I'm thinking here of how much the writing added to Alpha Centauri.
Artist: ???
Composer: Christopher Tin
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-Genre
Choose Your Own Adventure / RPG (CYOA with stats and fail states even if you pick the option with a better outcome)
-Director
Someone who's both good at keeping a group together but also experienced in the field, but also not too conservative. Not sure who that would be to be honest.
-Writer
People that wrote for other mediums before would be preferred, I'd love to have people that studied Psychology, Philosophy and other fields so that they have a good basis to create their own interesting stories and so that the game's narrative doesn't just fall in line with a lot of other games in it's story structure or how the story plays out.
Maybe some of the Telltale staff that got laid off because sometimes their work was brilliant when they weren't rushed by deadlines with added crunch periods.
-Artist
Uff
I don't know. Joe Senebria I guess, after looking at his portfolio. I liked Fallout New Vegas designs of distinct locations and that's thanks to Senebria.
-Composer
I don't know about that either. I would just hire Miracle of Sound because hiring all those big names like Inon Zur is firstly repetitive anyway and secondly probably costs a lot more. Plus I think MoS understands video games as a medium better.
Choose Your Own Adventure / RPG (CYOA with stats and fail states even if you pick the option with a better outcome)
-Director
Someone who's both good at keeping a group together but also experienced in the field, but also not too conservative. Not sure who that would be to be honest.
-Writer
People that wrote for other mediums before would be preferred, I'd love to have people that studied Psychology, Philosophy and other fields so that they have a good basis to create their own interesting stories and so that the game's narrative doesn't just fall in line with a lot of other games in it's story structure or how the story plays out.
Maybe some of the Telltale staff that got laid off because sometimes their work was brilliant when they weren't rushed by deadlines with added crunch periods.
-Artist
Uff
I don't know. Joe Senebria I guess, after looking at his portfolio. I liked Fallout New Vegas designs of distinct locations and that's thanks to Senebria.
-Composer
I don't know about that either. I would just hire Miracle of Sound because hiring all those big names like Inon Zur is firstly repetitive anyway and secondly probably costs a lot more. Plus I think MoS understands video games as a medium better.
-Genre
I'd go for a wide-linear FPS with level design inspired by Halo:CE and Crysis and no ADS.
-Director
I'd quite like to see Cory Barlog (God of War) try his hand at this genre, but I'd also like to see Alex Ward (Black, Burnout) have another crack with a big budget.
-Writer
I think maybe Neil Druckmann (The Last of Us) because I really like how he writes characters. And Drew Karpyshyn (ex-Bioware) because I've enjoyed all his plots and they always have a good twist.
-Artist
Whoever is lead artist on Overwatch. I love its visual style and I think it'll age really nicely. I also really like the design of the spaceships and tech in Helldivers, so whoever was responsible for that.
-Composer
Ari Pulkkinen (Resogun, Nex Machina, Trine). I love his electronica music and would like him to get more exposure.
-Sound designer
Either whoever is responsible for this at DICE or at Creative Assembly (re. Alien Isolation in particular). If I'm firing guns I want them to sound loud and scary and dangerous.
-Gameplay designer
I really liked what Kurt Margenau did with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. I'd also like to hire whoever was responsible for the level design and pacing in Titanfall 2.
For the first game I'd go narratively pretty straightforward; encounter hostile aliens on another planet and got to get off-planet and back to warn Earth/the alliance of Earth planets. Basically the whole setup is pretty similar to the original Halo but narratively I've never liked the direction they took after the first game. I'd want wide levels, a feeling of discovery like Halo or Unreal and gameplay that's relatively old school. Have a small selection of about 8-10 weapons (on a weapon wheel), about 6-8 distinct enemy types with different behaviours and a nice level of environmental interaction allowing for tactics, like in Crysis 1.
Without checking, I really doubt it. I'd guess their value is closer to 5-6 times as much.
I'd go for a wide-linear FPS with level design inspired by Halo:CE and Crysis and no ADS.
-Director
I'd quite like to see Cory Barlog (God of War) try his hand at this genre, but I'd also like to see Alex Ward (Black, Burnout) have another crack with a big budget.
-Writer
I think maybe Neil Druckmann (The Last of Us) because I really like how he writes characters. And Drew Karpyshyn (ex-Bioware) because I've enjoyed all his plots and they always have a good twist.
-Artist
Whoever is lead artist on Overwatch. I love its visual style and I think it'll age really nicely. I also really like the design of the spaceships and tech in Helldivers, so whoever was responsible for that.
-Composer
Ari Pulkkinen (Resogun, Nex Machina, Trine). I love his electronica music and would like him to get more exposure.
-Sound designer
Either whoever is responsible for this at DICE or at Creative Assembly (re. Alien Isolation in particular). If I'm firing guns I want them to sound loud and scary and dangerous.
-Gameplay designer
I really liked what Kurt Margenau did with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. I'd also like to hire whoever was responsible for the level design and pacing in Titanfall 2.
For the first game I'd go narratively pretty straightforward; encounter hostile aliens on another planet and got to get off-planet and back to warn Earth/the alliance of Earth planets. Basically the whole setup is pretty similar to the original Halo but narratively I've never liked the direction they took after the first game. I'd want wide levels, a feeling of discovery like Halo or Unreal and gameplay that's relatively old school. Have a small selection of about 8-10 weapons (on a weapon wheel), about 6-8 distinct enemy types with different behaviours and a nice level of environmental interaction allowing for tactics, like in Crysis 1.
Without checking, I really doubt it. I'd guess their value is closer to 5-6 times as much.
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Honestly just a crack team of programmers and animators from Naughty Dog and Rockstar. Maybe the artists from Bloodborne, too. Would love to try and helm the creative lead myself. Always been a dream of mine.
Director decides what goes in the game, tells teams what they want, has final say over things like script, character designs, etc.
Producer is more in place to make sure everything goes to plan, milestones are hit, the budget is under control etc.
That's always been my assumption/understanding anyway.
Genre: ARPG
Director: Hideki Kamiya and Amy Hennig
Writer: Pendleton Ward and Sam Esmail
Artist: Rebecca Sugar (with a strong emphasis on less whimsical designs), Yusuke Murada
Art Director: Fabrice Nzinzi
Composer: Amon Tobin
The cynic in me says that I get 20 million of that money to Doug Houser to ensure that I get another 100 million down the line...but that's a real deal with the devil at this point.
Director: Hideki Kamiya and Amy Hennig
Writer: Pendleton Ward and Sam Esmail
Artist: Rebecca Sugar (with a strong emphasis on less whimsical designs), Yusuke Murada
Art Director: Fabrice Nzinzi
Composer: Amon Tobin
The cynic in me says that I get 20 million of that money to Doug Houser to ensure that I get another 100 million down the line...but that's a real deal with the devil at this point.
- Genre: Fighting (2.5D)
- Director: Hideaki Itsuno
- Writer: Writing Team for Devil May Cry 3
- Bingo Morihashi
- Takayasu Yanagihara
- Art: Lead Character Art Team for ARMS
- Daisuke Kageyama
- Ryota Akutsu
- Masahiro Kawanishi
- Shunsuke Otsuka
- Composer: ACE (TOMOri Kudo / CHiCO)
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Genre/Premise: Combination of FPS+ First Person space flight game where you are a bounty hunter and travel to diff planets and space stations trying to make a name for yourself. It would be semi open-world and through some quests you'll end up stumbling onto main story and side missions as you explore. Basically I want something similar to Freelancer but on an even grander scale.
Director:Me
Writer:Me and Drew Karpyshyn
Artist: No fucking clue
Composer: Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Director:Me
Writer:Me and Drew Karpyshyn
Artist: No fucking clue
Composer: Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Genre: Cosmic Horror ARPG
Director: Hidetaka Miyazaki
Writer: Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro
Artist: From Software Art Team.
Composer: Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuka Kitamura.
Basically Bloodborne 2 with Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro.
Director: Hidetaka Miyazaki
Writer: Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro
Artist: From Software Art Team.
Composer: Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuka Kitamura.
Basically Bloodborne 2 with Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro.
All of the people that made Valkyrie Profile 1/2. And we'll make a game called Sideview of a Battle Maiden.
It doesn't matter who I would hire, but one things for sure, I'm setting my studio up in Rhode Island!
What exactly does UX entail in your definition? What I'm aware of is often UX design is often done by one person. Sometimes it's non-technical, non-creative and passed on to a developer and designer. Sometimes it's a technical & creative person who implements it right away as well (3 skills in 1 type of person). With certain games its very noticeable when there's a disconnect between UX & UI design. Bloodstained for example clearly has 3 seperate decision makers for the UI (UX, developer, designer). Whereas FFXIV 2.0 for example, is done by 1 person.
As for actual user data, I'd assume the test team will be mostly be trying to play the game and report findings and opinions (I'll basically encourage them to say something is terrible if it's terrible). They are not a team of developers who write tests. It seems that you define this more as a UX team, is that correct? But then I'm not quite sure what you would put into a 10 man test team that isn't playing and providing feedback. As for automated tests, I always like to keep that to the development team. As SCRUM entails that a finished userstory is ready as is, I really am not fond of 'completed' userstories that still require work later. It creates weight that you need to carry, until so much weight is added that moving forward turns into a crawl (seen this happen way too much). Userstories should be a fire & forget kind of thing. Thus a userstory has it's own needed tests. It doesn't have to be complicated, just a simple check that it continues to work in the future.
Anything not related to the game code would go to the server team. They handle pipelines and needs for servers. Game infrastructure is a mixed bag, preferably done by DevOps with game-code knowledge (so they know what's needed). Since it's game-code, I prefer them to be one of the engine developers, so I can leave the server team as simply the server team.
I did not setup true analytics for real player data, because it wouldn't be part of the development story. After launch (or before beta), that's when I would start needing data analysts and strong marketing / communication team. Before that I already reserved a few slots to fill small bits of communication with the 4:1 budget.
I'd somehow mix bungie with the team that made elder scrolls online and make what I believe destiny should be. Also throw Sean from hello games in there as well
Haha just say that concept out loud as if you were speaking to a financial backer
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I have no idea, I shouldn't be doing this, but I'll just find out who are the people responsible for Final Fantasy I Beastmaster, and Puppet Master, jobs. I'd get them to make a open zones (ffxi, and ffxii), or open world rpg with charmable monsters (beastmaster ability). There wil...
I'd just pay Square to make FFXI remaster with offline or small group co op. Screw making a new game.
I'd just pay Square to make FFXI remaster with offline or small group co op. Screw making a new game.
-Genre: Action-adventure RPG
-Director: Yoko Taro
-Writer: Yoko Taro
-Artist: Hiroya Oku
-Composer: Shoji Meguro
It would be a game for me instead of the market so it would completely fail and it would be a dark edge fest with violence, symbolism, mechanics playing a part on the story in a modern tokyo dominated for years as a colony by aliens much like the entire world after a invasion. The protagonist would be born after the invasion and I don't know the rest but the base premise is that.
-Director: Yoko Taro
-Writer: Yoko Taro
-Artist: Hiroya Oku
-Composer: Shoji Meguro
It would be a game for me instead of the market so it would completely fail and it would be a dark edge fest with violence, symbolism, mechanics playing a part on the story in a modern tokyo dominated for years as a colony by aliens much like the entire world after a invasion. The protagonist would be born after the invasion and I don't know the rest but the base premise is that.
Genre: JRPG
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Writer: Takashi Tokita, Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi
Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Writer: Takashi Tokita, Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi
Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
In the original post I wrote UX/User Researcher. They go by many names, user experience researcher, games user researcher, player researcher, ect. This is very distinct from a UI designer, the role of a user researcher is to validate the game designs against the actual player experience. This keeps the project on track, ensure the game is usable and achieving its design intentions.
The test team are not an adequate substitute for your actual users. There are a few key reasons for this:
a) they aren't your target audience
b) they are far too close to the product (and its politics) to be objective
c) the testers will generally have a poor understanding of usability and human psychology
Something we see all the time with smaller/mid weight studios without a UX team, is they test the game internally, then they come to us to test the game with their target audience, and the target audience don't play the game in the way that the developers, or testers anticipated they would.
Almost all large developers have user researchers involved at very early stages, providing evaluations of the early game concept, and things like UI wireframes. It might seem like extra work to involve user research at these early stages,
Analytics are typically hooked in at the games early production states. Feedback from analytics data is a key component of modern, iterative development. As an example, Breath of the Wild's map was altered based on heatmaps generated from analytics data, which showed where players were most likely to explore. As a result, the developers were able to populate those locations with interesting things. Analytics can be useful for tracking data generated by the testers, pre-alpha.
Perhaps a really easy to understand example is difficulty balancing. After a while, your testers have absolutely no idea how difficult the game actually is.
In general you won't see any studios of the size that you're describing, without some form of user research team involved in every project from very early stages of development.
Phew I thought I'd have go type more on my phone I'm going with this lol
I'm giving all of that to Fumito Ueda and telling him to make how many games that he wants
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An accountant
A personal shopper
A real estate agent
A travel agent
The game: - Living the life of a millionare.
A personal shopper
A real estate agent
A travel agent
The game: - Living the life of a millionare.
The goal is to make the best JRPG of all time.
- it needs to be massive, with up to 300 hours of contents: i want to be invested in this world for months, it's a big JRPG, it's supposed to be a big and long adventure.
- it should have an epic and emotional story, with love, drama, plot twists,... our heroes must save a corrupted world (the story takes place in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk society)
- It needs to have a very distinctive look, an artstyle completely different from all other JRPGs.
- it needs to be open world, because that's the trend of modern games and it fits well with the idea of a long game.
- as always with JRPGs it needs to have some epic soundtrack.
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi (arguagbly the best director you can find for a JRPG, he did wonders with Final Fantasy and Xenogears)
Writer: Tetsuya Takahashi, Soraya Saga (Xeno games are the closest to my ideal video game)
Producer: Eiji Anouma, Katsuma Hashino, Koh Kojima.
Artist: Yusuke Kozaki (incredibly underrated artist, he would give it that unique dark-anime look)
Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda (best composer in this industry for me; the right choice for a JRPG)
- it needs to be massive, with up to 300 hours of contents: i want to be invested in this world for months, it's a big JRPG, it's supposed to be a big and long adventure.
- it should have an epic and emotional story, with love, drama, plot twists,... our heroes must save a corrupted world (the story takes place in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk society)
- It needs to have a very distinctive look, an artstyle completely different from all other JRPGs.
- it needs to be open world, because that's the trend of modern games and it fits well with the idea of a long game.
- as always with JRPGs it needs to have some epic soundtrack.
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi (arguagbly the best director you can find for a JRPG, he did wonders with Final Fantasy and Xenogears)
Writer: Tetsuya Takahashi, Soraya Saga (Xeno games are the closest to my ideal video game)
Producer: Eiji Anouma, Katsuma Hashino, Koh Kojima.
Artist: Yusuke Kozaki (incredibly underrated artist, he would give it that unique dark-anime look)
Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda (best composer in this industry for me; the right choice for a JRPG)
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Director: Cory Barlog
Art Directors: Characters - Yoji Shinkawa / Environments - Syd mead
Writer: Chris Avellone
Composer: Jack Wall, Sam Hulick.
Cinematics director: Hideo Kojima(expensive, I know, it's just fantasy booking).
- Mass effect reboot.
Art Directors: Characters - Yoji Shinkawa / Environments - Syd mead
Writer: Chris Avellone
Composer: Jack Wall, Sam Hulick.
Cinematics director: Hideo Kojima(expensive, I know, it's just fantasy booking).
- Mass effect reboot.
Genre: Turn-based Sandbox RPG/Strategy with Adventure & Open World Elements (more Breath of the Wild and less Skyrim). Art and story is part homage to the PS1-era Square(FFVII, Xenogears and Chrono Cross), part subtle commentary of the shallow otaku-pandering of modern RPGs.
Director: Myself & Hiroyuki Ito(Final Fantasy's ATB System creator, director of FFVI, IX and XII) - Hiroyuki Ito deserved to be the true successor to Sakaguchi. However, with my project, he would help overthrow Final Fantasy with his excellent system design.
Writers: Toby Fox & Gen Urobuchi(Fate/Zero, Psycho Pass) - Fox has a knack for creating fantastic characters and sharp humor. Urobuchi excels at creating dark and thematically strong narratives and killing off beloved characters. Toby works equally well with dark content as shown not only in Undertale's Genocide Run, but his Halloween Hack mod for Earthbound. Together, if in perfect cooperation, they would create an incredibly compelling world and cast that subverts and brutalizes the cliches we all know and hate in modern JRPGs.
Artists: Yusuke Naora(FFVII & X) will be art director and Nobuteru Yuki(Chrono Cross, Escaflowne) will be character designer - Naora helped define RPGs of the mid-90s and early 2000s with Final Fantasy VII and X. Nobuteru Yuki is a severely underrated character designer who helped popularize Japanese fantasy designs in the early 90s with Record of Lodoss War and Escaflowne.
In addition, the visual presentation will be 2D hand-drawn cells along hand-drawn backgrounds. Cutscenes and dialogue will be animated and directed by Kyoto Animation(Violet Evergarden, A Silent Voice), on 2s(see: Escape from Monkey Island, Cuphead, 90s cartoons), with fully animated lip flaps and gestures. Essentially a single cour's worth of animation.
Music: Toby Fox & Yamada Takahiro(Love Live!) - No, I'm not kidding about Love Live!. Yamada's composed some of the best anime songs in the past years. Snow Halation, in particular is so popular that it's become a meme on the YouTube music channel SiIvaGunner. Toby Fox's music is at its best when he has a greater involvement with the overall production, meshing perfectly with what's happening in-game.
Director: Myself & Hiroyuki Ito(Final Fantasy's ATB System creator, director of FFVI, IX and XII) - Hiroyuki Ito deserved to be the true successor to Sakaguchi. However, with my project, he would help overthrow Final Fantasy with his excellent system design.
Writers: Toby Fox & Gen Urobuchi(Fate/Zero, Psycho Pass) - Fox has a knack for creating fantastic characters and sharp humor. Urobuchi excels at creating dark and thematically strong narratives and killing off beloved characters. Toby works equally well with dark content as shown not only in Undertale's Genocide Run, but his Halloween Hack mod for Earthbound. Together, if in perfect cooperation, they would create an incredibly compelling world and cast that subverts and brutalizes the cliches we all know and hate in modern JRPGs.
Artists: Yusuke Naora(FFVII & X) will be art director and Nobuteru Yuki(Chrono Cross, Escaflowne) will be character designer - Naora helped define RPGs of the mid-90s and early 2000s with Final Fantasy VII and X. Nobuteru Yuki is a severely underrated character designer who helped popularize Japanese fantasy designs in the early 90s with Record of Lodoss War and Escaflowne.
In addition, the visual presentation will be 2D hand-drawn cells along hand-drawn backgrounds. Cutscenes and dialogue will be animated and directed by Kyoto Animation(Violet Evergarden, A Silent Voice), on 2s(see: Escape from Monkey Island, Cuphead, 90s cartoons), with fully animated lip flaps and gestures. Essentially a single cour's worth of animation.
Music: Toby Fox & Yamada Takahiro(Love Live!) - No, I'm not kidding about Love Live!. Yamada's composed some of the best anime songs in the past years. Snow Halation, in particular is so popular that it's become a meme on the YouTube music channel SiIvaGunner. Toby Fox's music is at its best when he has a greater involvement with the overall production, meshing perfectly with what's happening in-game.
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I'd just give it to Miyazaki and FromSoftware with the specfic instruction to make a sci-fi horror game.
The Non-Visceral Non-Star Wars Non-Uncharted Inspired 1313 game
-Genre: Action/Adventure
-Director: Bruce Straley
-Writer: Amy Hennig
-Artist: Erick Pangilinan
-Composer: Greg Edmonson
-Genre: Action/Adventure
-Director: Bruce Straley
-Writer: Amy Hennig
-Artist: Erick Pangilinan
-Composer: Greg Edmonson
Game: Anachronox remake. Basically remake the original from the ground up and include all the content that was cut due to time/budget constraints.
Team: Eidos Montreal. Their work on Deus Ex shows that they know what to do.
Director: Tom Hall, of course. Also Hiroyuki Ito. When your RPG system is inspired by Final Fantasy, why not have the original creator at the helm? He could pretty much enhance the depth while ironing out the repetition and adding tougher, more memorable challenges.
Writing: It's not Anachronox without Tom Hall. Dialogue would mostly remain unchanged, but be re-recorded if necessary.
Art: Doesn't matter as long as they stick with enhancing the original look.
Music: Keep the original music, but just in case, get Alexander Brandon(Unreal, Deus Ex) on board.
Team: Eidos Montreal. Their work on Deus Ex shows that they know what to do.
Director: Tom Hall, of course. Also Hiroyuki Ito. When your RPG system is inspired by Final Fantasy, why not have the original creator at the helm? He could pretty much enhance the depth while ironing out the repetition and adding tougher, more memorable challenges.
Writing: It's not Anachronox without Tom Hall. Dialogue would mostly remain unchanged, but be re-recorded if necessary.
Art: Doesn't matter as long as they stick with enhancing the original look.
Music: Keep the original music, but just in case, get Alexander Brandon(Unreal, Deus Ex) on board.
Hire good "unnamed" people to clone remake a F2P PUBG from the ground up without so much jank and only direct sale skins. No crates, no grindfest battle pass.