Director of each Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor Stig Asmussen is leaving Respawn Leisure.
As initially reported by Bloomberg, Asmussen has apparently made the choice to depart Respawn, with EA later confirming that that is the case in a press release (thanks, PC Gamer). “Stig Asmussen has determined to depart Respawn to pursue different adventures, and we want him the most effective of luck,” reads the temporary assertion. Other than the purpose about pursuing “different adventures,” Asmussen’s resolution to depart the developer after nearly 10 years there wasn’t shared.
It is a barely stunning transfer from Asmussen contemplating earlier this yr he stated he needed Star Wars Jedi to develop into a trilogy. “I all the time needed to see this as a trilogy,” Asmussen stated on the time. “How can we take Cal and the crew to new locations past what we have been doing within the first recreation? We had a fairly respectable thought of timeframe the place we needed Survivor to happen, what the stakes have been going to be, what the tone of the sport was going to be, what Cal was going to be up towards, and the way the crew was going to issue into that. And there is concepts of what we might do past that as effectively.”
There’s even the prospect that the threequel is already in improvement, as evidenced by some job listings earlier this yr. Whether or not or not that is nonetheless the case, if it ever was, is clearly up within the air, however Asmussen leaving does not imply the sport would instantly be cancelled. In response to EA, “Veteran Respawn leaders might be stepping as much as information the workforce as they proceed their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor,” so it appears like issues are in secure palms.
Previous to his time at Respawn, Asmussen had labored on the God of Struggle collection in varied roles, together with lead surroundings artist, artwork director, and ultimately recreation director for the third entry within the collection.