Jason Jones, one of many co-founders of Bungie and a co-creator of Halo and Future, has introduced his new studio, Stone Kite, which is able to work on tasks throughout numerous 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 beneath.
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 usually the medium that tells the primary story finally ends up defining the whole lot that comes after it,” she mentioned. “Stone Kite is about breaking down these previous media silos. As an alternative of beginning in a single medium and adapting outward, we carry the most effective world 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 performed. We construct communities, and we hearken 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 entire life making video games, however I’ve all the time needed to write down,” Jones mentioned. “I used to bike fifteen miles alongside Lake Michigan to the used bookstores in North Chicago, and bike house once more with a backpack filled with sci-fi paperbacks. Margie was the primary particular person to imagine I may write a e-book of my very own, the primary particular person to learn it, and the one particular person 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 sequence about an impending face-off between people and a rogue military of AI-driven robots. Half 1 is obtainable now in digital type on the Stone Kite website, which can also be the place you may 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 a part of the widespread studio layoffs enacted by Sony earlier this 12 months, which immediately’s Stone Kite announcement will surely appear to verify. Jones is thought to be a visionary recreation designer and barely provides interviews. In truth, his career-spanning interview with IGN in 2013 was his first interview in over a decade on the time, and he is not often spoken publicly since.
Bungie, in the meantime, which had formally ended support for Future 2 earlier this 12 months, announced last week that it’s in truth not completed but.
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