14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the people who once worked for Ensemble Studios, responsible for the enormously popular Age of Empires series, aren't going to rest on their laurels and stay out of the game development business. With their initial studio gone, apparently a victim of its own success, most of the people who worked for Ensemble are now eager to create their own videogame projects and are founding new studios left and right.
There are already two studios that are getting people from Ensemble Studios, Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios. Now, Dusty Monk is touted as being the president and founder of Windstorm Studios, another development team that seems to be already working on one game.
Windstorm is advertising the fact that its first project will be an online game set to offer a more brighter outlook on life than the titles players are able to get their hands on at the moment, which feature apocalypse, destruction and mayhem (think Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, and Burn Zombie Burn!).
The web site of the new studio reads “Are you tired of online games filled with depressing predictions of post apocalyptic destruction? Are you weary of walking through grey streets beneath grey skies and killing grey zombies? Have you had your fill of dank cellars and dark caves? Well so have we! And we're ready to build a brighter world! A better online game - a game with the promise of a hopeful future - cities of glass and steel, and most importantly, flying cars!”
Apart from that, there's no other information related to the new game and no release window has been made public. Windstorm is looking for partners that can fund its operations as it's preparing to expand and get more development work done. Can a game about optimism succeed as the videogame business is suffering from the economic recession?