The name of Ikumi Nakamura is starting to be well known to players, even if the young lady does not yet have a huge pedigree. She can still thank her speech at theE3 2019 for the spotlight. Environment Artist on Okami then artistic designer on Bayonettashe took the lead by becoming head of design on the Evil Within then artistic director on the imminent Ghostwire: Tokyobefore leaving Tango Gameworks for health reasons.
Ikumi Nakamura is now better and announced his return to video games with his own studio last year. It is becoming more concrete this week, whena teaser came to introduce his name, Unseen, and a minimalist logo. The company is based in Tokyo and hopes “transcend beyond the realm of video games”, thanks to a new licenseinspired by the passions of the director, namely mystery, horror, science fiction or the supernatural.
She will be surrounded by a shock team: Naoki Katakai (Tango Gameworks) inasmuch as CDO & Environmental Art Specialist ; Liam Wong (Ubisoft) as visual director; Raul Ibarra (Moon Studios) as animation director, Misuzu Watanabe (Capcom) as a game director and NASS inasmuch as concept artist and illustrator. They will be assisted by:
- David Steinberg – CTO;
- Futoshi Miyamoto – CIO;
- Aaron Packard – Senior Gameplay Engineer;
- Brian Wanamaker – Senior Development Manager;
- Eriko Nagasawa – Assistant Manager;
- Fumie Kishiwada – US Manager;
- Gus Martin – Gameplay Engineer;
- Johnny Byrnes – Technical Game Designer;
- Justin Nesbit – Level Design Director;
- Kenan Alpay – Senior Game Designer;
- May Mattori – Concept Artist;
- Miho Nakagawa – Assistant Nakagawa;
- Shane Canning – Senior Level Designer.
Unseen recruits on its official site, so do not hesitate to apply if you are interested. Not to mention his next, Ikumi Nakamura still mentioned this new professional adventure in a video withIGN. And even if she only participated in the beginning of the development, you can pre-order his next title Ghostwire: Tokyo for €64.99 on Amazon.co.uk.
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