Topic: Dave Cox leaves Konami

[crisis]

excerpt from wayforward's site:

You guys are super awesome, can you make the next [insert oldschool videogame franchise] game?

• It’s an honor that so many people want us to take the reigns on so many great franchises, and we’d love to work with those IPs. But you should realize, any licensed IPs we work with; Contra, Aliens, BloodRayne, etc.; are not owned by us, and it’s up to publishers to hire us to make the product they want using their IPs. We can rarely pick and choose which IPs we want to make games from. So for example, if you want us to make the next Mega Man, Castlevania, or Metroid title, you’d have to write to Capcom, Konami, or Nintendo. That being said, feel free to do just that; it might actually work.

http://wayforward.com/support/


stop posting & start writing, folks

[uzo]

Just to address something I saw while catching up. Konami wouldn't consider whether or not to make another Castlevania based on whether or not IGA or Cox was still available to make it. They switch staff and producers out all the time. After all, we did get LoS without IGA, right? Cox was no big shot before then.

[beingthehero]

They switch staff and producers out all the time. After all, we did get LoS without IGA, right? Cox was no big shot before then.

Yep. IGA was incognito after SotN until 2002, and CotM's producer reappeared as a graphics designer in OoE. Konami will mix and match to their little hearts' content~

[DoctaMario]

Yep. IGA was incognito after SotN until 2002, and CotM's producer reappeared as a graphics designer in OoE. Konami will mix and match to their little hearts' content~

I kinda hope they go back to that. It gave the earlier games a lot of cool little touches have different people at the helm.