VersusEvil said: I do wonder how many people don’t realise it’s not Avalanche Studios (JC, Contraband) making Hogwarts Legacy but Avalanche Software (Cars, Rugrats, Hannah Montana) ahaha …….. |
I knew it was the formerly Disney Avalanche all along personally, ever since footage of Hogwarts Legacy first leaked in 2018. To be fair though, it's not really the same studio that it was when they used to make cheap kid games for Disney. After Disney shut down their entire Disney Interactive Division in 2016 in favor of licensing games to 3rd parties, WB acquired and re-opened them in January 2017 and convinced Disney to let them finish the Cars 3 games they had been making before the Disney Interactive closure. After Cars 3 released in late 2017, WB started the process of building them into a AAA studio specifically for the purpose of working on Wizarding World games under their Portkey Games label. Alot of the leads on Hogwarts didn't work at Avalanche under Disney, though some did, including the Game Director, the Head of Story, and the Head of Characters. Meanwhile the Audio Director/Lead Composer worked at Rockstar and EA briefly as a Game Tester and contract Audio Production Assistant respectively, before doing some VR games as a Lead Audio Developer, before ultimately joining the Hogwarts Legacy team. The Lead Cinematic animator didn't work on games beforehand, but rather at Pixar on movies they released between 2008 and 2018 including Coco, Toy Story 3, and Up. The Art Lead formerly worked at WB's Monolith on games including Shadow of War and Shadow of Mordor.