{"id":20861,"date":"2022-07-21T03:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/uncharted-the-last-of-us-director-opens-new-studio-wildflower-interactive\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T03:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:49:46","slug":"uncharted-the-last-of-us-director-opens-new-studio-wildflower-interactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/uncharted-the-last-of-us-director-opens-new-studio-wildflower-interactive\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncharted, The Last of Us Director Opens New Studio, Wildflower Interactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Former Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us director Bruce Straley has opened up a new studio called Wildflower Interactive.  The studio is made up of developers who&#8217;ve worked on games such as Call of Duty, Abzu, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and Astroneer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2017 I left the industry not sure if I wanted to make games anymore,\u201d says Straley.  But the longer I was away, I kept thinking about this medium, and everything yet to be done and everything I wanted to do still.  And this idea kept following me.  So I grabbed some friends and we started prototyping.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMG &#8211; it&#8217;s finally happened!!  We&#8217;re doing a thing!!!<\/p>\n<p>head over &#038; follow <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playwildflower?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@playwildflower<\/a> to check us out.  Thanks! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GvMM39TEdG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GvMM39TEdG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bruce Straley (@bruce_straley) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bruce_straley\/status\/1549787870029701121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Wildflower Interactive&#8217;s website, the studio is aiming to create \u201csmall-ish\u201d, creatively charged, and uniquely-stylized games.  While the studio didn&#8217;t reveal any other information about any projects, it is currently embracing remote work.  It looks like Wildfire Interactive is still in early development as they are hiring for roles such as COO, audio designer, character designer, and environmental artist.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"object-feedback\"\/>\n<p>Wildfire Interactive&#8217;s current employees include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almudena Soria Sancho \u2013 Animation<\/li>\n<li>Wouter Gort, Eyton Zana \u2013 Art<\/li>\n<li>Doug Holder, Arno Azar, Nicholas Lance, Liz Fiacco \u2013 Design<\/li>\n<li>Cosmo Fumo, Ole Ciliox \u2013 Programming<\/li>\n<li>Vivian Alcala \u2013 Production<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Straley \u2013 Director |  studio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Straley left Naughty Dog in 2017, he had no announcements about his next steps but wanted to \u201ccontinue the journey into the creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 slideshow-preview\">\n<p>Every IGN Naughty Dog Game Review<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-862123036 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-child\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p><em>George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN.  You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us director Bruce Straley has opened up a new studio called Wildflower Interactive. The studio is made up of developers who&#8217;ve worked on games such as Call of Duty, Abzu, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and Astroneer. \u201cIn 2017 I left the industry not sure if I wanted to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/uncharted-the-last-of-us-director-opens-new-studio-wildflower-interactive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncharted, The Last of Us Director Opens New Studio, Wildflower Interactive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20786,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/sony-partners-with-spin-master-on-toys-and-merch-for-playstation-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":20861,"position":0},"title":"Sony partners with Spin Master on toys and merch for PlayStation games","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? 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