Everwild: Alien Isolation’s lead designer has joined Rare

The picturesque video game Everwild has long been quiet. The Rare development team belonging to Microsoft Game Studios had already announced the mysterious project at the Xbox Games Showcase in 2019. Since then, the game has almost completely disappeared from the scene. But now the development seems to be gaining momentum again. Former Alien Isolation chief designer Gary Napper joins the Everwild team as design director.

“I’m very excited to announce today that I’m at Rare as Design Director for Everwild,” affirmed Napper. A new executive in the design area was also necessary for Everwild for a long time. A report by VGC According to the previous creative director Simon Woodroffe left the project, whereupon the game “was completely restarted”. This means a complete overhaul of the design and direction of the game as well as significant changes in the management level.

This also explains, for example, Everwild’s absence at this year’s Xbox Games Showcase. Xbox Game Studio boss Matt Booty spoke to one last month “Kinda Funny Games”-Interview on YouTube about the challenges Rare faced and assured them that this was part of the creative process.

Commenting on the current state of the Everwild team, he said, “They’re just trying to make sure they have something special. We’ve given a little glimpse into the world and seen the team’s graphic style, but we want to get it right,” Booty added: “We’ll reveal more about Everwild when the team has some cool stuff to show. We know that the anticipation is great and we don’t want to keep things a secret for too long. ”At what point in time new information is shared by Rare and whether Everwild still looks the same as it did a year ago, he did not mention.

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