Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, Bioshock 2, The Cave vets form Campo Santo

[JonCole]

A group of industry veterans whose work includes The Walking Dead and Mark of the Ninja co-founded a new development studio, according to a post on the new studio's official blog.

Campo Santo's staff includes former Telltale creative director and designer Jake Rodkin, designer and writer Sean Vanaman, as well as Mark of the Ninja lead designer Nels Anderson and artist Olly Moss, who's worked with Lucasfilm, Studio Ghibli and others.

Campo Santo's first game is "being both backed by and made in collaboration with the stupendous, stupidly-successful Mac utility software-cum-design studio slash app/t-shirt/engineering company Panic Inc. from Portland, Oregon," Vanaman wrote.

 

Source: Polygon

 

Discuss.

 

My reaction: WHAAAAAAAT

 

Edit:

 

Here's the Campo Santo's website: camposantogames.com

 

Edit 2/6/14:

 

Here's the new website (it's been up for a while, I've just been lazy about updating this) - camposanto.com

Also, Chris Remo is now an employee of Campo Santo! Also also, I updated the thread title to reflect the new employee's origins as per the Campo Santo About page and what I know about Chris Remo.

[sclpls]

Haha I was about to post the same thing, including reaction! Next Thumbs episode should be a good one...

[Korax]

Another group of devs from well-known studios break off to form their own thing? UGH. What are they going to do next, make an awesome game that I will evangelize about to all my friends?

 

Seriously, though, can't wait to see what's coming.

[Marquis]

Jake put up a really good fight, but you finally got him in a team of lords. Good work, and well fought.

[toblix]

This is pretty sweet. I wonder when we'll hear more, and whether they formed around a specific project, or something less concrete, like the goal of revolutionizing the way we consume digital entertainment.

[melmer]

[osmosisch]

Pikmin Lords Management incoming!!!!!1

[pabosher]

I am very disappointed they didn't call it Famous Video Games Inc.

[Twig]

whoa

[El Sloth]

Oh, man! Famous Video Games Studios! Sweet! Congrats and good luck on the new venture, fellas.

 

Interesting name by the way. A fancy way of saying "graveyard" in spanish. 

 

Edit: I can't wait for Gone Home: Ghosts Edition

[jeremywc]

I'm disappointed they didn't call it The Phaedrus Group.

[melmer]

I've often wondered if the guys would ever create their own indie dev studio, only last week when Olly was on the cast I thought they could enlist him to do the art....Then BOOM

(FYI This is my idea, I'm claiming it, someone's going to owe me royalties somewhere down the line)

Really happy for them!

No love for Nick?

[Urthman]

"It's like Gone Home with ghosts!" -- IGN.com

[Nappi]

Mmm.. What?

 

This is going to be interesting. I'm excited!

[Urthman]

No love for Nick?

 

Nick is busy finishing his book about Duke Nukem Forever.

[melmer]

In about two years time a Spanish kid doing history homework will look for an image of a grave yard on google and be really confused when the number one result is a picture of Jake

They have a blog post: http://blog.camposantogames.com

[MrHoatzin]

Whoa

[youmeyou]

Double Whoa.

[elmuerte]

Oh man.. I hope this will be some visual puzzle adventure game thingy in classical Olly Moss style.

[Salacious Snake]

Cool beans!

[El Sloth]

The "P" in the logo looks like a skull and the "t" looks like a graveyard cross. Cool.

[elmuerte]

Also, I can't help to think Jake and Sean said: "Congrats Nick, we're leaving him behind at TellTale"

[MrHoatzin]

Oh, also, Panic?!

[melmer]

They're looking for a 3D artist OCULUS RIFT CONFIRMED

That kinda puts my initial fear of 'god I hope they don't make a free to play iPhone game' at rest

PS4 please and thank you

[El Sloth]

I'm guessing these are some of the names/logos they went through before arriving at Campo Santo:

 

 

 

 

Taken from their new twitter account.