XCOM’s Jake Solomon is forming a new studio and ‘likely won’t make a turn-based game’
Jake Solomon, the director of Marvel’s Midnight Suns and the modern XCOM franchise, has revealed he intends to form his own studio after departing developer Firaxis this year.
The designer also says he likely won’t make another turn-based strategy game, as he currently feels like he “[doesn’t] have anything more to say in that area”.
Solomon announced his departure from the 2K studio, where he worked for 23 years, last month.
At the time it wasn’t clear what the game designer’s plans were. However, speaking in a new episode of journalist Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, Solomon confirmed his intention to form a new company to work on a different kind of strategy game to what he’s known for.
“After I made Midnight Suns I looked at, ‘ok, I’m going to make another turn-based strategy game, and am I excited about that?’ And I found that I wasn’t that excited about doing another turn-based strategy game, not because the genre isn’t amazing – it’s where I’ve spent my life – but I felt like I didn’t have anything more to say in that area,” he said.
“So I started thinking, what would I do if I wasn’t making this? If I wasn’t making another turn-based strategy game at Firaxis? And I started to get excited… There are other things that excite me as a designer, and the idea of starting something new was really exciting to me.
“I realised, as the company was changing, this was my opportunity to think about maybe I should make a change. If I’m ever going to do my own thing, which again Sid [Meier] had started multiple companies and I thought to myself, if I’m ever going to start my own company… I feel like I can do this, do a whole new thing and be completely in charge of it, and that was just too exciting for me.”
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