Hideki Kamiya has returned to Capcom on the head of a new studio, Clovers.
The veteran developer has taken on the position of studio head and chief recreation designer, and is main work on the corporate’s debut mission: a sequel to 2006 cult hit Okami, for which Kamiya was the sport director.
The studio emerged from stealth because the Okami sequel was introduced ultimately evening’s The Recreation Awards. Different members of the unique growth group are additionally concerned.
In accordance to the game’s website, Clovers is working with two different studios on the mission: M-Two, which has beforehand labored Okami HD and the remakes of Resident Evil 3 and 4, and Machine Head Works, which additionally seems to be a new studio on condition that its web site only went live two days ago.
The announcement of Clovers means that, whereas it’ll have groups in Osaka and Tokyo, the studio can be shaped of “a core group of elites who create and develop the ‘core’ of video games” – therefore the necessity for co-development companions.
The intent behind the title for Kamiya’s new studio is evident; the unique Okami’s developer was the Capcom-owned Clover Studio, which additionally developed God Hand and the Viewtiful Joe video games.
Kamiya joined Clover in 2004, but it surely was closed on the finish of 2006 – six months after Okami launched.
Shortly after, Kamiya and fellow Clover builders Atsushi Inaba and Shinji Mikami then based PlatinumGames with Tastuya Minami. The Okami director labored there for 17 years, earlier than asserting his departure in September 2023.
“Due to varied causes, I left a big group and have become unbiased, and for some time I looked for a spot the place I may work on recreation growth in accordance with my inventive beliefs,” Kamiya wrote on the studio’s web site. “Thanks to the help of encouraging pals who share the identical beliefs, I used to be ready to discover a place the place I might be proud to create a recreation that I may share with everybody.
“We could also be small in dimension, however our souls are huge and highly effective. As a recreation studio, we’ll proceed to work with the identical convictions we had once I first entered the sport business, to carry happiness to your gaming life.”
