With titles like Journey (designer), What Remains of Edith Finch (head designer and screenwriter) and Sky: Children of the Light (head designer and screenwriter) on his resume, Chris Bell founded this studio to create online games. line on consoles and PC in the register of the fantastic adventure. Gardens is a studio whose team will mainly work remotely. Its mission: to create online games that encourage players to care about each other to create lasting friendships.
“With Gardens, we wanted to create a studio that cares as much about the health, happiness and well-being of its team members as it does about the quality of the games we create together. Our top priority is to make sure our teammates enjoy their lives and have the tools and resources to thrive while creating engaging, well-designed, and thoughtful games that cultivate never-before-seen shared experiences between players in line“, comments Chris Bell.
Currently in development, Gardens’ first game builds on non-verbal communication from online games like Journey and Sky: Children of the Light. Players will evolve in a world born from the illustrations of ma-ko, which are supposed to give a good idea of the world in preparation. Among the members of the team responsible for honoring these lovely designs by fantasy, we find the artistic director Leighton Milne (Ashen), the artist of the environments Ryan Benno (Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank, Sunset Overdrive) or the technical director Lexie Dostal (Dustforce). While the studio has already quietly raised $4.5 million in June 2021, its official announcement today will shine the spotlight on job openings.
