The former developers of the British developer Playground Games, which continues to develop the open world racing game “Forza Horizon” series at Xbox Game Studios, have announced the establishment of a new developer “Maverick Games” aiming to develop AAA games. rice field.
Playground Games Veteran Developers Form New Company
Serving as the studio head and creative director of the newly established Maverick GamesMr. Mike Brown. He is the latest in the series “Forza Horizon 5]and has been in charge of game design etc. for most of the previous games in the series before that.
In addition, so farLead Producer at Playground Games and Maverickwill serve as executive producerTom Butcher, former Technical Director at Playground and CTO Matt Craven, former Technical Art Director at Playground and now Content Director Gareth Harwood, and Playground’s continued audio director Fraser. Mr. Strachan, the art director is “Vampire: The Masquerade ― BloodhuntA total of 6 former Playground Games developers gathered, including former Playground Ben Penrose who belonged to the developer Sharkmob. In addition, a total of 10 people are currently enrolled, including those who worked at EA and Sumo. The goal is to increase this number to 140 in the future.
Aiming to release a new AAA-class open world work
Upon announcing the establishment ofMike Brown announced that the 2021Forza Horizon 5]was released.DeveloperWhile considering whether to continue his wonderful journey with Playground or explore new opportunities, he was blessed with the opportunity to establish this new development company. The development company wants to foster a culture of risk-taking and creative challenges. In addition, he describes himself as an open-world man rather than a man who drives, and develops games that are AAA-level open-world games full of ambitions to win all awards, and are not particular regarding racing. It is said that it will be a work of art.
