Stig Asmussen Is Leaving Respawn, Five Months After Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
EA has announced that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi:Fallen Order’s creative director, Stig Asmussen, is leaving Respawn Entertainment.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle, EA gave this statement:
“After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck.
Veteran Respawn leaders will be stepping up to guide the team as they continue their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.”
Stig Asmussen got his start in the video game industry in 1999, as the 3D artist for arcade and home console classic, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. Prior to joining Respawn Entertainment, Stig was best known for his work on the God of War games, all done under Santa Monica Studio. He had spent eight years at Santa Monica Studio, and about nine years at Respawn, having been confirmed to have worked there since at least 2014.
There was no indication until now that Stig had been unhappy at Respawn, or that he was interested in moving on. In fact, we had reported on two separate instances where Stig said he expected to make a third game for the Star Wars Jedi franchise, with Cal Kestis in it. He made these statements in March, and then in April, heavily implying that his team at Respawn had already planned out how to end Cal Kestis’ story.
As for the Star Wars video game franchise, EA’s mismanagement and cancellation of multiple projects did lead Disney to open up the floodgates for multiple developers to get to make their own Star Wars video games.
However, those issues did not seem to affect Respawn. After the success of the two Star Wars Jedi games, we can look forward to two more projects under their hands.
One is an untitled Star Wars FPS. It should be
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