Fumito Ueda, the director of
The Last Guardian,
unveiled a new website for his Koto-based independent studio genDESIGN after Sonys E3 press conference.
You may recall that Ueda
left Sony back in in 2011. However, he was contractually obliged to complete the development of
The Last Guardian despite having set-up his own studio, which we now know is genDESIGN.
It seems that the studio is mostly formed of members of the team formerly known as Team Ico, as it states that its comprised of Fumito Ueda and a team of veteran developers who led the creation of Ico and
Shadow of the Colossus. The president of genDESIGN is listed as Jinji Horagai who was the AI programmer on Yorda in
Icoand the system programmer for
Shadow of the Colossus.
The first thing youll probably see on the genDESIGN website as its used as the background image is what appears to be the corpse of a guardian. As the name of the game says, Tricothe giant feathered creature that you interact with in
The Last Guardianis, well, the last guardian. So there must have been others, right?
The bones in the background image on genDESIGNs website seem to match up with Tricos anatomy. The only big difference is that the two horns on Tricos head are cut down to stubs in
The Last Guardian, whereas in this image they are fully intact, so this is presumably one of the other guardians, now dead.
Also on the website are concept art and images from
The Last Guardians development as the studio lists it as its first and only game made so far. But underneath that the studio alludes to whatever it will work on next with the words And more followed by the genSTUDIO logo.
Hopefully well be hearing more from genDESIGN once
The Last Guardian is out on PlayStation 4 in 2016. To keep up with any updates from genDESIGN you can follow the studio on Twitter and
Facebook.
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