God of War developer Santa Monica Studio is working on a new IP
The studio seems to be moving away from God of War
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A Santa Monica Studio developer has confirmed that the studio is currently working on a new intellectual property.
As spotted by aResetErauser,God of Wardeveloper Glauco Longhi recently took to LinkedIn to share that he has been acting as a supervisor at theSonyowned studio looking at character development on a “new IP”.
“Santa Monica Studios presented the opportunity of coming back as Character Supervisor, looking after the entire Character Development pipeline, on their new IP, so here I am, thrilled to be back, working again with the crew and pushing Characters in videogames together,” the full post reads.
According to Longhi’s “about” section on his LinkedIn profile, he has worked as a senior character artist on Naughty Dog’sUncharted 4, as well as on Santa Monica Studio’s 2016God of War.
The developer has also worked as a lead character artist onGod of War Ragnarok, which launched in 2022, but left the studio later to work onThe Calisto Protocolas a character and art director at Striking Distance Studios.
He re-joined Santa Monica Studio earlier this year after working for less than a year as an art director at theSubnauticadeveloper Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
At the moment, we don’t have any information about this “new IP”, however, there have been rumors that the studio is potentially looking to produce a space-themed game following cryptic posts from Santa Monica Studio’s creative director, Cory Barlogback in 2019.
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Although currently unannounced, a thirdGod of Wargame is also a possibility. FollowingRagnarok’s launch, the Santa Monica went on to release the freeValhalladownloadable content (DLC), an extended epilogue roguelike that takes place after the events of the sequel.
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