Star Wars Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen mentioned when he left Respawn in September 2023 that he needed “to pursue different adventures,” and now we all know what he meant. Asmussen introduced at this time the launch of a brand new studio referred to as Large Cranium, “devoted to constructing gameplay-driven, story immersed action-adventure video games set in fascinating worlds.”
“The Large Cranium studio tradition is based on creativity and curiosity,” Asmussen mentioned. “We’ve assembled a gifted group famend for immersive storytelling, heroic fight and exhilarating traversal, and our purpose is to craft a wealthy universe that gamers will need to lose themselves in for years to come back.”
That group consists of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor technical director Jon Carr and design director Jeff Magers, former Fortnite, Valorant, and League of Legends artwork director Patrick Murphy, Fortnite lead producer Lauren McLemore, Epic Video games animation director Brian Campbell, and Rocksteady chief operations officer Anthony Scott.
Unsurprisingly, particulars of the studio’s first recreation have not been revealed past it being “a AAA single-player targeted motion journey” in-built Unreal Engine 5. However despite the fact that there’s not a lot to see within the press launch, there’s some horsing round to be finished on the Large Cranium web site that will reveal… effectively, in all probability nothing of substance, nevertheless it’s enjoyable.
To get rolling, click on the sq. brackets within the upper-right nook of the Large Cranium web site. That opens a console immediate that accepts a minimum of a pair Linux instructions—LS and CAT—in addition to varied key phrases: “Tradition,” as an illustration, delivers the response “AUTONOMY_MOMENTUM_CURIOUS_RESPECT,” whereas “idea” serves up a bit poem that additionally seems to primarily emphasize the studio’s acknowledged values.
In the event you’d somewhat simply minimize to the chase, the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit is placing collectively a listing of all of the secrets and techniques they’ve discovered thus far.
Dry although the announcement could also be, Asmussen has an enviable monitor file and the truth that he is getting as much as one thing new is attention-grabbing: Previous to his time directing the Star Wars Jedi video games (he additionally did Fallen Order), he served as artwork director on God of Conflict 2, recreation director on God of Conflict 3, and artistic director of the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot.
