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Keiichiro Toyama: "I founded Bokeh Game Studio in order to keep making games in my own style", first game is "quite dark"
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Huh? I thought he was still on Silent Hill made by Sony according to KatharsisT. Confused by this.
Ah nice. Hope he gets the budget he deserves to create something great.
I thought he created the new studio because he doesnt want to make big budget games and instead go for smaller titles.
He left Japan Studio last year to make his own studio that's working on a new horror IP that will be multiplatform.
If any 'leaks' suggest something different they're probably BS.
Really nice he have new studio now. With Sony focusing mainly on big budget AAA titles, pressure for Japan studio must have been quite insane.
Looking forward to see reveal of his horror game in next year or two.
Looking forward to see reveal of his horror game in next year or two.
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More like 6 months ago. Bokeh was quietly established back in August.
I believe he said in one of the threads that he is still involved in a limited fashion but is not a lead anymore. So if it is true he probably settled all the preproduction work and moved on while still be in a consultant role. That is of course assuming the whole thing is true.
some other new art works from the video
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Bokeh Game Studio CEO Keiichiro Toyama discusses first game in ‘Focus’ creator spotlight
Bokeh Game Studio, the new studio founded by Silent Hill, SIREN, and Gravity Rush creator Keiichiro Toyama, has published a nine-minute “Focus” video introducing the CEO and creative di…
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I'm loving the concept art. The stuff with people's faces splitting apart is always morbidly cool to me lol
If Silent Hill is real is posible.
Same happened with Ueda and The Last Guardian.
Whether SH is real or not is another question.
Same.
As long as he's doing what he wants, I'm happy. But hopefully a Gravity Rush successor comes later down the line.
He hasn't made a survival horror game in a long time though. I'm sure he'll adapt to modern standards.
I mean, why would he left Sony to make his own studio and then sell the studio to them or MS in such short time?
Not saying this can't happen one day, but I don't see logic in happening anytime soon.
He left Sony and you think he is going to become a 1st party studio? What the actual fuck? lol
Money. If he gets a great offer from Sony and the freedom he wants, every will be forgotten
People here love it when developpers are owned by their favorite company.
So... Guy left because he wasn't getting any stuff and suddenly, Sony buy his studio when they didn't care about him when he was an employee there.
Sounds... Dubious.
He left, most likely because he wasn't getting either of those. But even if they did make him a good offer, he spent over 2 decades at Sony. At this point, it's clear he wants to do his own thing and be his own boss.
Fairly sure Siren and Gravity Rush were both his ideas and not forced in him by Sony.
Your confusion here might be because the sony silent hill game doesnt exist and the rumor was made up.
doubt they'd wanna join sony again, since they just left.
don't see them joining any first party tbh, i think it's more likely for them to get a deal from Epic or something.
He left Sony so they would have more freedom to work on what they want, being acquired by them defeats the whole point.
probably hired by Retro to work on Star Fox Grand Prix
On topic, artistic freedom in this industry, especially at the AAA level, is probably nearly impossible to come by. I look forward to whatever this guy does.
Hopefully, otherwise I could see his game failing in the current day and age.
Nah, I think plenty of Silent Hill fans would love to play another in that style. The ones he worked on (1-4) are still the best survival horror games ever made. Siren sort of lost me with the sight-jack mechanic but I want to go back and try them again.
He only worked on SH1 iirc.
Siren 2 was amazing and super unique for a survival horror game but that clunkiness was undeniable.
Yeah, seems you're right but the first one did an amazing job establishing the franchise.
They were his own ideas, but he still wouldn't have the same level of freedom at a big company that he would have at his own indie studio.
Given that Gravity Rush 2 came out in 2017 and he doesn't have any credits after that at Sony, it's most likely that he was working on a game at Sony that ended up getting cancelled, at which point he decided he'd be better off being independent. It's also quite possibly that he saw that the writing was on the wall and that he'd be better off quitting on his own terms rather than wait until he got fired or his studio was downsized and folded into another department.
Going by what he said previously it's pretty much confirmed that at the very least one of his projects was canceled post GR2.
Very well might be two though because he mentioned starting anew with fresh ideas after the first one was canned.