Veterans from prominent game studios form new company

A crew of builders, veterans of the video games trade, have all come collectively to kind a brand new studio referred to as That’s No Moon.

The studio’s headquarters are in Los Angeles, and boasts former Naughty Canine, Santa Monica Studio, Infinity Ward, Bingie, and EA builders at its helm. Two key figures of the studio are Co-Founder and Chief Artistic Officer Taylor Kurosaki and Jacob Minkoff, Recreation Director.

Kurosaki and Minkoff departed from Infinity Ward collectively this 12 months, having labored on Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare as Design Director and Narrative Director respectively. Kurosaki spent greater than a decade with Naughty Canine previous to this, having labored on Crash Bandicoot as a degree designer, and even the critically acclaimed Uncharted 2 and three.

Minkoff additionally labored with Naughty Canine up to now, engaged on Uncharted and The Final Of Us as a recreation designer.

Michael Mumbauer is one other CO-Founding father of That’s No Moon. He labored with PlayStation as Head of the Visible Arts Service Group with the corporate for 13 years. The opposite two Co-Founders are Tina Kowalewski and Nick Kononelos.

Kowalewski has labored on video games like Journey, God of Conflict: Ghost of Sparta, and Twisted Metallic with Santa Monica Studio, whereas Kononelos was a Senior Improvement Director with EA, engaged on Want for Velocity and Madden NFL.

That’s No Moon has now secured over $100 million in funding from Smilegate, a South Korean developer and writer. The corporate’s debut recreation will probably be a triple A single-player expertise that’s narrative and story-driven.

The goal of the sport is to be so engrossing that gamers discover it exhausting to place the controller down. That’s No Moon at the moment has 40 staff, however that’s set to rise to over 100 by 2022. The studio is extremely bold, and has already outlined the way it needs to create multimedia content material, stretching past video games and into different types of media similar to TV and movie.

Solely time will inform if this choice of trade veterans has what it takes to drag off such a transfer, establishing itself within the trade with a powerful title that evokes many orbiting creations as nicely.