Jason Jones, one of the co-founders of Bungie and a co-creator of Halo and Destiny, has introduced his new studio, Stone Kite, which is able to work on tasks throughout varied leisure mediums. The studio’s first launch is One Zero One, a limited-series comedian e-book primarily based on a manuscript written by Jones. Try some web page selects within the gallery under.
The Los Angeles-based studio is a partnership with Margaret Stohl, a Bungie veteran who has written 14 books in addition to quite a few video games and Marvel Comics in her profession. She serves as Stone Kite’s CEO. “I’ve spent my profession creating books, video games, comics, movie and tv, and I’ve seen how typically the medium that tells the primary story finally ends up defining every thing that comes after it,” she stated. “Stone Kite is about breaking down these previous media silos. As a substitute of beginning in a single medium and adapting outward, we convey the very best international creators from completely different disciplines into the room from day one to form the world collectively. We modify the dialog. We by no means say that’s the way it’s historically finished. We construct communities, and we take heed to them. That’s how we’re creating worlds that individuals can discover for many years, in no matter methods they need.”
“I’ve spent my complete life making video games, however I’ve all the time wished to write down,” Jones stated. “I used to bike fifteen miles alongside Lake Michigan to the used bookstores in North Chicago, and bike dwelling once more with a backpack full of sci-fi paperbacks. Margie was the primary individual to consider I may write a e-book of my very own, the primary individual to learn it, and the one individual I trusted to assist me develop it into epic leisure that leaves the world a greater place.”
One Zero One is a four-part restricted comedian collection about an impending face-off between people and a rogue military of AI-driven robots. Half 1 is offered now in digital type on the Stone Kite website, which can also be the place you’ll be able to preorder a bodily copy.
Jones co-founded Bungie in 1991 and stayed with it till his place as Chief Imaginative and prescient Officer was reportedly half of the widespread studio layoffs enacted by Sony earlier this yr, which in the present day’s Stone Kite announcement would definitely appear to verify. Jones is considered a visionary sport designer and hardly ever offers interviews. In actual fact, his career-spanning interview with IGN in 2013 was his first interview in over a decade on the time, and he is hardly ever spoken publicly since.
Bungie, in the meantime, which had formally ended assist for Destiny 2 earlier this yr, introduced final week that it’s in truth not completed but.
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