Already at work on the Silent Hill remake and the recently-announced Layers of Fear 3, Bloober Team recently announced that it has expanded its leadership. In doing so, the developer has announced that it’s moving to a multi-project structure, which also happens to include five more horror titles that are currently in co-development.
Per GamesIndustry.biz, the new appointments at Bloober are Thaine Lyman as head of studio, Katya Baukova as director of business development, and Michał Gembicki as head of publishing.
With the new executive team in place, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno says that the developer will continue to operate with two “first-party” production teams working on the studio’s major releases. The two “first-party” teams are working on what Babieno describes as “what defines Bloober Team: single-player horror experiences with strong gameplay foundations, premium execution, and themes that resonate on a deeper emotional or social level.”
“We don’t want fewer than two productions, because relying on a single title creates too much risk in today’s market,” says Babieno. “But we also don’t want more, because quality, focus, and creative oversight would inevitably suffer. For us, two core productions are the right balance between ambition and responsibility.”
To run down what’s known so far, in addition to Silent Hill and Layers of Fear 3, Bloober Team and their co-development label, Broken Mirror Games, are also at work on the Nintendo-exclusive Project M for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. There’s also Project H, which is currently being worked on by the team behind Cronos: The New Dawn, which has been described as “the most ambitious project this team has ever undertaken, with the greatest commercial potential of any of their titles.”
