The developer who left PlatinumGames is not allowed to work in the gaming industry for a year, so he’s doing something else until then.

Kamiya was the director of several successful games (Resident Evil 2, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101), worked as a supervisor or scenario writer on many other games (Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta 3, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, Sol Cresta…), but left PlatinumGames, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Game Designer. So he had a high position in the company, and it is somewhat understandable why he was given notice: it is business practice that secrets of the previous job cannot be passed on to unauthorized persons (or the next employer), or at least that the insider information becomes outdated in that time…

Anyway, Kamiya started his YouTube channel and answered some questions in his first video. He didn’t say exactly why he left, but he did mention that he left PlatinumGames because he wanted to take his own approach as a game creator and follow the path he thought was right. He stressed that the 12-month enforced leave does not mean that he is retiring (speaking of which, Shinji Mikami, the creator of Resident Evil and The Evil Within, recently ended his non-compete period and has already written to say that it’s time to get to work…) because he wants to continue making games.

Kamiya’s wry humor is evident here (“I’m out of a job. Please subscribe!”), but also his liberation (no more boring meetings to attend and he can watch Netflix or Disney Plus). He’d even like to work on debugging debugging Hamster, but until then he’ll be cooking (he told us how his homemade curry turned out), and he’ll be curry), and he’ll be giving useless advice on game development on YouTube without any education. education. He wouldn’t turn down sponsorship, but he considers himself a shy character, so he doesn’t think he’d be very good at it.

The end of the video was classy: Kamiya, sitting in his Lamborghini, came out of the parking garage, “Off to the job center!” and drove off…

Source: Gematsu