For video game developers, there comes a time when you need to expand in a way that’ll help change the game in terms of how your company does business. This doesn’t happen for everyone, mind you, but expansion, growth, and culturing new ideas helps keep developers fresh and on their toes. Square Enix has been going on quite an expansion run as of late, and now, and brand new studio has been born. One that’s comprised of the Final Fantasy XV team, and is being called Luminous Studio.
Now, the name of the studio is very telling in our opinion. Mainly because that’s the name of the engine that they made Final Fantasy XV on, among other titles of course. Square Enix has been asked in the past whether they would focus on making games via the engine, and this may be a pseudo-answer for that.
But now the question is, what are they making?
Well, being that the studio is headed up by Hajime Tabata, you can expect major story and style. He’s headed up many AAA titles for Square Enix and that’s not likely to change. A listing for a Project Manager said that the team wants a new challenge.
“The new challenge for the FINAL FANTASY XV team is to create a game and business model ’10 years ahead of its time.'”
A bold claim, but given that FFXV is revered as one of the best Final Fantasy games of all time, and a superb RPG, they may just have it in them.
Ironically, this is kind of a reverse on the last studio that was born from Square Enix. They made Tokyo RPG Factory to make more classic JRPG titles, which resulted in the births of I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear.
We’ll keep our eyes out for what the team may be making.
