Thu, Sep 20, 2012 | 11:22 BST

Rez creator Miziguchi leaves game production, moves to spokesperson role

Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has distanced himself from games production at Q Entertainment, and has now stepped into a spokesperson role at the company. THe studio revealed Miziguchi’s shift in focus at TGS today.

Speaking with Eurogamer, Q Entertainment director Nobuhiko Shimizu stated, “Right now Mizuguchi does not produce the games. He’s now more of a spokesperson. He’s not developing stuff right now.”

Miziguchi moved into his new role following work on Child of Eden, his spiritual follow-up to Rez. Although the iconic developer displayed a fondness for music-based games, Shimzu revealed that the trend would continue.

“We are now thinking about combining music games with card-battle games. We now have several productions to develop that kind of game,” Shimzu added.

Thanks Eurogamer.

7 comments

Telepathic.Geometry
20/09/12, 12:11 pm

WTF? It seems like one by one my childhood gaming dev heroes are leaving. How long now before Miyamoto leaves… ;_;

Dave Cook
20/09/12, 12:18 pm

Yeah really sucks mate, I’m a big fan of his work.

Kabby
20/09/12, 1:39 pm

:’(

Custard Ganet
20/09/12, 2:34 pm

Shame,would have really liked another Rez/Child of Eden type game from him.

aseddon130
20/09/12, 2:37 pm

His games just don’t sell, simple as. He’s done some quality games though i agree but they are very niche’ – Child Of Eden is easily obtainable for £5 or so now, i bought it brand new on the day of release as i did with Lumines on Vita.

xino
20/09/12, 2:49 pm

aw man
whose gonna make the music games man?
Lumines was a good game too
love Rez

Custard Ganet
23/09/12, 12:34 am

Yeah his games never sold much,unfortunately.Rez is still one of my fav games of all time.