In February, Jon Shiring and Drew McCoy – Longtime developers at Respawn Entertainment – left to follow anonymous projects. Monday, the duo announced building a new AAA studio: Gravity Well.
The Gravity Well website describes the new studio as AAA, but focuses on taking care of the small group – between 80-85 people, to keep the creative juices flowing. According to Shiring, the aim is to test "only strong new free-gen and PC ideas."
The studio will offer the function of remote development from scratch. While the Gravity Well environment is somewhere in response to COVID-19, McCoy and Shiring are perplexing about maintaining a distant culture. The duo plans to hire a diverse workforce, with remote development removing barriers such as work visas and accommodation costs.
Gravity Well is currently hiring 11 different roles, including the office manager when LA comes out with a COVID-19 lockdown. In addition to the roles of traditional development in audio, engineering, QA, and writing, McCoy and Shiring have a special "off-the-list" section – inviting potential employees to cast if their skills do not fit the already published document.
According to McCoy and Shiring, they designed Gravity Well to put developers first – which means no crunch and creative freedom.
Together, McCoy and the Shiring are responsible for some portion of similar games Call of Duty 4: Modern Wars, Modern Warfare 2, both Titananfall games, too Apex mythology.
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