Two Hearts! Joinin’ in our game grind…

[karashata]

From the Playtonic website, in case anyone here isn't following their Twitter and/or doesn't check their site frequently for new news:

http://www.playtonicgames.com/two-heart ... ame-grind/

A very brief summary, two new faces have joined the team, Catarina Barros, a programmer, and Dan Murdoch, a sound designer/engineer.

[DarkTone]

Thanks for the thread. I don't use Twitter.

[Scrubber]

Cool. I want some of that green drink...

[John]

A Crash Bandicoot fan! That's a nice spin on things, especially with Yooka-Laylee's release on the Playstation. She can hopefully help with all those strange X's, Circles, and Triangles. I wonder if she ever played Banjo.

[Xellos]

[Scrubber]

[John Enigma]

[GrayMagicΓ]

[Taylor]

[John Enigma]

There is one thing that I need to ask though: I know that Playtonic Games was founded by six people first, but who's really the main leader of this indie studio?

[karashata]

On their website they have Chris Sutherland listed as the project director and Gavin Price as the managing director, so if I had to guess, those two are probably at the helm steering the ship, but I don't think they really look at their roles as leaders and more as just another part of the team (considering Chris is also a software engineer and Gavin's also the creative lead on the team).

[John Enigma]

[GrayMagicΓ]

[John Enigma]

Right, I almost forgot. What I was thinking was how every member at Rare had their creative freedom. It made it feel like there was no leader, and somehow, that's how they flourished.

[Taylor]

I'd say Gavin is technically the guy in charge. I'm pretty sure he was the one who made the original Mingy Jongo twitter a few years ago and spoke about wanting to make a spiritual successor to BK.

But as others have said, I get the impression Playtonic is a really relaxed company -- a family. They're all in it together for the love of making games.

[Xellos]