The team at Retro Studios have announced on Twitter that they are currently looking to recruit an art director for Metroid Prime 4. The game’s development was fairly recently started from scratch after the original project was scrapped by Nintendo. The game is in the very early stages of development so it sounds like it will be a long time before a glimpse of the project will be unveiled to the general public.
I will wait for a long time as long as it turns out to be a great game.
But what were they doing for 5 years before they took on Metroid Prime 4? Funky Mode must have been a lot more work than it seems
Considering we just got through another E3 with no sighting from them, I think whatever they might have been doing before Metroid Prime 4 got scrapped.
If I recall correctly, they were working on some Donkey Kong games and helping out with course designs for Mario Kart 7. After which they started having internal issues. I guess they’ve gotten themselves together again for this new Metroid Prime effort
It probably got canceled
I will wait until they reveal more news of the game development of Metroid Prime 4 soon.
What have they been doing all this time without an art director?
It’s probably in a slow and careful planning phase. Considering the reason as to why the original progress had to be scrapped due to inefficiencies, I think Retro is opting on learning from that studio’s mistake rather than repeating it…
Wouldn’t that involve drawing concept ideas?
You don’t need an art director to make concept art/concept idea drawings.
If they ever need a writer I’m… right here.