Founded in 2018 studio The Initiative continues to build its team by attracting talented employees from various AAA teams in the gaming industry. For example, earlier this year, Initiative was replenished with a number of former specialists from Naughty dog… But the management didn’t stop there.
VGC portal in his note reportedthat former Naughty Dog developers have joined the Santa Monica studio in the past few months Hawar Dogramachi (senior graphics programmer), Lauren Manuel Garcia Carro (Senior Technical Shader Artist), Lee Davis (Lead Gameplay Animator) and Sara Swenson (environment artist).
The studio also replenished with immigrants from Infinity ward, among which Jaime Molina (environment artist) and Jolyon Myers (chief designer of the game world), and Joseph Tan from Blizzard (producer) and Stephen Clayburn (Chief Lead Engineer of Online Services).
In addition, the ranks of the newly-minted studio joined Victor Chavez from Amazon Game Studios (senior animator), former freelancer at Epic Games Pasquale Shonti (Senior Environment / Lighting Effects Artist), Nigel Loster from The Coalition (gameplay designer), head of his own consulting firm and former employee of Id Software, Riot and Gearbox QA Maxwell Morrison and Giovanni Martinez from Insomniac Games (Senior Environment Artist).
This spring The Initiative hired a programmer for The Last of Us Part 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2 Francisco Aisa Garcia…
The team is led by former head of Crystal Dynamics studio and senior vice president of Activision Darrell Gallagher… Other notable personalities include the game director of the Tomb Raider restart Daniel Neuburger and lead designer Drew Murray, who held a similar position on Insomniac Games’ Sunset Overdrive project.
Rumored to be The Initiative currently works over revival Perfect dark or just a new game in this universe.
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