Forza Horizon devs are making a non-racing, open-world recreation

The crew behind the Forza Horizon sequence is increasing to work on a brand new mission that isn’t about racing.

Playground Games, the studio chargeable for the Forza off-shoot sequence, Horizon, together with the newest Forza Horizon 3, has introduced it’s opening a brand new department.

Thew new crew may even be based mostly within the studio’s hometown of Leamington Spa, within the UK. The new recreation, merely known as ‘Project 2’, is not going to be a racing recreation, Playground confirmed to Games Industry.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to test ourselves in a different genre,” founder and artistic director Ralph Fulton informed the positioning. “Opening one other studio is one thing we’ve been speaking about for a very good few years, however we’ve been eager to not rush into it.

“We really feel like we’ve turn into fairly good at racing video games over time. We can at all times get higher, we are able to at all times try to get higher however we’d like to show ourselves in a unique style.”

As such, Playground will likely be trying to herald new expertise to work on the sport, and enhance the full workers to round 200 from the present 115.

“For some of [the company’s staff], this was their first job in the industry. I remember many of them starting green as you like,” mentioned Fulton.

“They’ve grown up in this studio, grown in experience over three games of increasing quality, and are now in a position where they are looking to develop their careers. We want them to do that here rather than somewhere else, but with only one team the opportunities for that are limited.”

This transfer could be very fascinating for a Microsoft studio, because the writer has typically caught to a one-game/one-franchise-studio method. More just lately, Microsoft has been displaying willingness to permit its groups to increase past the video games they have been established to work on, nevertheless, corresponding to within the case of Rare.

Naturally, with Project 2 being this early in improvement, Fulton wasn’t capable of share any extra particulars. It’s in all probability additionally a methods off, too.