Lionhead ne “sirotez simplement le Kool-Aid de Microsoft”, wants to preserve unique culture and identity
“We’re at the opposite end of the scale to where Microsoft normally are,” explique le directeur créatif.
Lionhead isn’t just a bunch of yes-men in branded T-shirts, leaping through hoops proffered by Uncle Microsoft, creative director Gary Carr has insisted to OXM. As with Forza 5 developer Turn 10, the manufacturer has been careful not to meddle with Lionhead’s studio culture and creative “identité” – as attested, Carr suggests, by the recent appointment of the “very, very non-Microsofty” former Cryptic CEO John Needham as studio head.