Drew McCoy and Jon Shiring, respectively Respawn Entertainment's former executive producer and the former lead programmer on Apex Le🌜gends, have co-founded their own games studio.
It's called Gravity Well, and as McCoy explained to , it's emphasizing remote work - par🎀ticularly in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic - and relatively small but nevertheless AAA production. As of now, the studio is just its co-founders, but it's aiming to grow to 80 - 100 people. More details are available๊ on its newly minted .
"That is the team size we are really comfortable with," McCoy s꧙ays. "That's the size where decision making can be spread out and it doesn't need to come from someone at the top of a pyramid. You get tons of speed benefits because the team is smaller, they understand the game better, and they can make decisions on an hourly basis without having to interact with a bunch of other people. So keeping a team smaller, while still trying t🌼o hit all the hallmarks of a AAA game, that's the aim."
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"While this new generation feels like an iteration of what we've already seen, I think that things like the amount of CPU power and I/O speed actually opens up opportuniti🔯es that we haven't had before. Even when the Xbox One and PS4 were in development, what we were screaming at platforms to do was give us faster I/O, please. I ๊am excited to see where we can get to with it."
McCoy's comments echo the sentiments of many developers who are transitioning to next-gen tech. It's looking more and more like the next co𒁃nsole generation will have less impact on graphics, and more on systems like AI and content generation and loading. It'll be interesting to see how Gravity Well breaks into that environment - likely with a shooter, going by McCoy and Shiring's experience, but nothing's set in stone.
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguel🗹ikes as possible.
