Bungie Busy on New IPs

Bungie studio manager Harold Ryan says the newly independent developer is “actively engaged” in creating new IPs, as well as new Halo titles.
"We're actively engaged with the senior staff here on a couple of new IPs right now, but the team that can generate cool Halo games is still running full-speed as well," Ryan revealed in an interview with Develop.


Bungie had wanted to pusue new projects while under the arm of Microsoft, Ryan said, only to have to ditch them because of the crunch involved in getting Halo titles completed. However, a project begun during Halo 3’s development has been kept alive, and is currently being worked on following the split from Microsoft.

"During the development of Halo and Halo 2, we had other, non-Halo IPs in development and we killed those projects both times. Both teams were swallowed whole by the Halo team. With Halo 3, that was the first time we knew that we couldn’t let that happen – it’s not an acceptable way out to add 20 people to the project by killing that prototype.

"We kept that prototype running throughout the development of Halo 3 and now we have a creative team which feels like they own that.”

Not that Halo projects won’t still be taking up a fair deal of Bungie’s resources, Ryan added.

“We also have Halo DLC on the way, and a new IP prototype that we are very excited about. Then we have other Halo games that are cranking along also. So the end result so far has been exactly as it should have been – we’re happy, excited, and doing our best work on a path that lets us grow."



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