Departure of key Metroid Prime devs “hard”.
Retro Studios has revealed how it dealt with the twin pressures of being new custodians of Nintendo’s treasured Donkey Kong Country series and seeing key members of the Metroid Prime team leave before development started.
In the latest ‘Iwata Asks’ interview on Nintendo’s official site, CEO Satoru Iwata asks Retro about the departure of design director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller and principal technology engineer Jack Mathews in 2008 to set up Armature Studio.
“When talk came up of several key members from Retro Studios leaving the company, not a few people were skeptical about whether the company would be able to keep making high-quality games,” revealed Iwata.