Former VALORANT sport director Joe Ziegler, one of many first and most distinguished figures behind the profitable multiplayer shooter’s improvement, has joined Destiny 2 developer Bungie as a sport director and will doubtlessly lead the event in Bungie’s subsequent aggressive shooter mission.
Ziegler is credited with arising with the concept of creating VALORANT whereas he and different designers have been theorizing different Riot titles, in keeping with an interview with Polygon again in 2020. Ziegler ultimately took on the sport director function for VALORANT till December 2022 and has now landed at Bungie.
With expertise as a sport director for one of the crucial standard multiplayer aggressive shooters in latest reminiscence, Ziegler’s arrival at Bungie may very well be a robust indication that the aggressive PvP title the corporate has been incubating is transferring ahead with its improvement cycle.
Over the previous couple of years, Bungie has created quite a few job listings on its web site for brand spanking new initiatives, together with an “incubation multiplayer systems designer” who would deal with “competitive multiplayer game mechanics that provide strategic depth and opportunities for counterplay,” which is about an apt description for a sport just like VALORANT as you can ask for. Other present listings (as of Dec. 19, 2022) for the roles of lead fight designer, stage designer, gameplay designer, financial system designer, and others may be for this mission.
At the start of 2022, Sony purchased Bungie for $3.6 billion and introduced it on to its formidable plan to launch greater than 10 totally different live-service video games between then and the top of 2025. One of those potential titles is the supposed aggressive title from Bungie titled “Project Matter.”
Ziegler has not publicly commented on what he’s engaged on with Bungie as of but, however the wording of his announcement does lean towards the concept of him engaged on a brand new title that’s a great distance away from a possible launch, versus engaged on extra present Destiny 2 improvement.
