14 DAY TRIAL // Joshua Rubin, one of the writers who have worked as part of developer Bungie on the upcoming Destiny, announces that he is leaving the company in order to move to the Bay Area studio of Telltale Games, where he will be working on the upcoming Game of Thrones title.
Gamasutra says that the game maker is very happy with the work that he has created in the last few years, but at the same time, “in the end, Bungie makes games about shooting aliens in the head. And while there’s a true art to ‘writing between the bullets’ — as Mr. Staten once said — I couldn’t turn down an offer from Telltale, to create games that are entirely about story.”
Joshua Rubin has also been employed as a lead writer at both the Visceral Games studio of Electronic Arts and at Capcom.
In 2010 he was nominated for a Video Game Writing Award for his work on the second Assassin’s Creed video game.
Since Destiny was announced, Bungie has said that it was interested in the creation of a deep universe, which would allow gamers to get small tidbits of lore even while they are exploring the worlds or fighting alien enemies.
The game will have a range of story-focused missions, but the studio also wants players to have all the elements to create their own narrative by working in groups and by discovering details associated with the items they use and the enemy factions they are battling.
The first-person shooter will be launched on September 9 and will be offered on the PlayStation 4 from Sony, the Xbox One from Microsoft, the PS3, and the Xbox 360, with a PC version also rumored to arrive this year.
Bungie is already working on the first piece of downloadable content for the title, called The Dark Below, which is expected to arrive before 2014 is through.
Telltale Games is best known for its complex storylines, which can be experienced in both The Walking Dead and the Wolf Among Us franchises.
The Game of Thrones project, which is being created in partnership with HBO, will probably be launched next year, and so far no clear details on its main character or its setting have been offered.
The company has suggested that it will explore spaces that both the books and the television series have so far left vague and will appeal to both newcomers and long-term fans of the universe.