Whereas Playground Games was successful again last year with Forza Horizon 5 (available from €54.99 on Amazon.co.uk), the team is focused on developing a project that is a thousand miles from anything he has ever created, a new Fable. Part of the team will take advantage of this change of direction for this entity of Xbox Game Studios to embark on a new adventure.
Mike Brown, Game Director of playgroundhas just announced that he has quit his job to go up his own independent company, Maverick Games. And he didn’t go it alone, because he embarked with him other former members of his team with whom he will co-lead the entity, namely Tom Butcher who will be executive producer, Matt Craven as technical director, Gareth Harwood as content director and Fraser Strachan as audio director. Members of other companies will also join, namely Harinder Sangha as COO (formerly co-director of Sumo Digital Leamington), Ben Penrose as artistic director (he held this position at Sharmkob London and served at playground previously) and Elly Marshall as director UX/UI (previously Director of Experience Design at EA).
“Our goal is for Maverick Games to be a studio that people will love,” said Mike Brown. “For gamers, we are already working on an exciting title of very high quality, and for developers, we are building a house where everyone is encouraged to take risks, to be curious, to be creative, to be innovative, to be themselves and, above all, to be a non-conformist. »
Maverick Games will be based in Leamington Spa in the UK, as Playground Gamesand his first project will be “a new premium AAA open-world game for consoles and PC” : nothing says that it will be a racing game, but we can strongly imagine it. The studio wants to adopt “an independent and pioneering spirit, and a commitment to placing creativity, innovation and the well-being of developers at the heart” of concerns. It has already secured “significant seed funding” through economic partners and is now recruiting for positions at all levels. A future great in the sector?
Read also: RUMOR on Fable: a very slow development, the fault of the lack of experience at Playground Games
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