Veterans of the rhythm recreation style have established a brand new improvement studio referred to as RedOctane Video games.
Based on right this moment’s announcement, the “small” studio performs house to “creators and builders who helped create and scale Guitar Hero and DJ Hero almost 20 years in the past, in addition to confirmed rising improvement expertise and neighborhood leaders from throughout right this moment’s rhythm gaming area”.
RedOctane is at present creating a variety of rhythm-based experiences, with its first title scheduled to be revealed later this yr.
It describes itself as an organization “inside” Embracer Group‘s Freemode, which provides help and steering to independently operated companies.
The studio is headed up by Simon Ebejer, who was manufacturing director on a number of Guitar Hero titles at Neversoft, and later served as studio head at Vicarious Visions and VP of operations at Blizzard.
RedOctane was the writer of the unique Guitar Hero and the PS2 model of Guitar Hero 2, earlier than turning into an Activision subsidiary when the Name of Duy maker acquired the franchise for $100 million.
Activision closed RedOctane, which was co-founded by Kai Huang and Charles Huang, in 2010. The Huang brothers are to hitch a particular advisory board for the brand new RedOctane.
“Rhythm video games are about extra than simply gameplay they’re about really feel, circulation, and connection to the music and to one another,” stated studio head Ebejer. “RedOctane Video games is our means of giving again to a style which means a lot to us, whereas pushing it ahead in new and thrilling instructions.”
