343iBot Posted May 12, 2020 Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 Former founder Drew McCoy and fellow Respawn alumni programmer Jon Shiring have announced a new AAA studio called Gravity Well, which will look at using the hardware potential of next-gen consoles to innovate the AAA game space. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, via Wccftech, McCoy has talked about the new studio's top-level game goals, and how it aims to use the new generation of hardware. With Gravity Well's founding, the focus is on finding new ways to do things--starting with its flexible work structure and going all the way through to how their games will be designed. "We feel that the AAA space is losing the hunt a bit in terms of finding new things," McCoy explained in the interview. "When you look back, big explosive growth in a genre or in the industry itself doesn't usually come from an iteration on a thing that already existed; it comes from a new thing that hasn't been seen before... It probably means we will fail finding big massive hits sometimes, and that's okay because you're not always going to land perfectly." Continue Reading at GameSpotView the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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