Stig Asmussen, the director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Leisure “to pursue different adventures”.
Initially reported by Bloomberg, Asmussen’s departure was later confirmed by EA in a press release, explaining “Stig Asmussen has determined to go away Respawn to pursue different adventures, and we want him the most effective of luck.”
Asmussen joined Respawn Leisure in 2014, the place he oversaw improvement of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order earlier than helming its superior sequel. Previous to that, he spent a decade at Sony America, the place he labored on the primary three God of Warfare video games, serving as Artistic Director on God of Warfare 3.
Asmussen’s departure from Respawn is an attention-grabbing flip of occasions. Earlier this yr, Asmussen expressed his need to make the Star Wars Jedi collection right into a trilogy, an concept that was being mentioned earlier than Jedi: Fallen Order launched in 2019. “We had been already speaking in regards to the second recreation,” Asmussen stated in an interview with IGN. “Frankly, we had been speaking past. And these are conversations that, after we’re breaking the story with Lucasfilm, it is like: ‘Effectively, the place are we going with the second recreation.”
He went on so as to add “I at all times wished to see this as a trilogy.”
As for what Asmussen’s departure means for this untitled third Star Wars recreation, it appears Respawn is urgent forward. In July, Respawn marketed a number of jobs to work on a brand new entry in its Star Wars Jedi collection, stating they’d assist Respawn “create an unbelievable Star Wars expertise for our gamers in a enjoyable, third-person action-adventure setting.” In the meantime, EA’s assertion relating to Asmussen’s departure defined that “Veteran Respawn leaders will likely be stepping as much as information the workforce as they proceed their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.”
