BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
The Santa-Monica, California-based studio is currently recruiting for seven game development roles, including a lead gameplay designer.
“Become the primary vision holder and hands-on contributor for character, controls, and camera design in an open world action-adventure game,” reads the job listing in question.
Having co-founded Rockstar in 1998, Houser left in early 2020 before announcing Absurd Ventures last year.
Launching in 2024, its first two “universes” are American Caper, which will begin life as a graphic novel, and A Better Paradise, which is an audio fiction series.
It emerged in November that Rockstar veterans Lazlow Jones and Michael Unsworth were working alongside Houser at Absurd.
As co-chair of Rockstar’s production department, Jones was previously responsible for in-game creative audio and video content, while former Red Dead Redemption series writer Unsworth worked on virtually all of Rockstar’s major releases during 16 years at the company.
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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser’s new studio is making an open world action-adventure game | VGC
It’s seeking to “deliver best-in-class combat and third person action across multiple game modes”…
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The pedigree is crazy. Definitely looking forward to this.