{"id":109741,"date":"2020-02-29T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/the_project_am2r_creator_now_designs_levels_for_the_ori_developer_moon_studios"},"modified":"2020-02-29T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T03:05:00","slug":"the-project-am2r-creator-now-designs-levels-for-the-ori-developer-moon-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/29\/the-project-am2r-creator-now-designs-levels-for-the-ori-developer-moon-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project AM2R Creator Now Designs Levels For The Ori Developer Moon Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You might remember a really<\/em> impressive fan-made overhaul of Metroid II: Return of Samus<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 better known as Project AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake)<\/em> \u2013 that was released in 2016. Ever wondered what the creator has been up to since it was shut down<\/a> by Nintendo? Well, it was actually a dream outcome for him in the end.<\/p>\n

Speaking to VICE, Milton “DoctorM64” Guasti \u2013 who spent over a decade working on his Metroid 2 remake \u2013 reveals how he’s gone on to become a level designer at Moon Studios in the space of just four years. If you didn’t know, this is the developer behind Ori and the Blind Forest<\/a><\/strong>, and the upcoming release, Ori and the Will of the Wisps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This all came about when Guasti one day received a “mysterious” email:<\/p>\n

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I was just minding my own business one day… And suddenly, I got this mysterious email from some famous guy that I actually didn’t know. My reaction was, \u2018Hmm, okay, either someone is pretty crazy about trolling me, or this is legit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The email was from Moon Studios, asking him to design an Ori level in order to land a professional position at the studio. Fortunately, he was playing a lot of games with interesting level designs after the takedown notices (including Ori and the Blind Forest) and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

Although Guasti joined Moon Studios well into the development of the second Ori game, he’s since “touched a lot of different parts” of the sequel \u2013 and is particularly proud of the game’s elaborate “escape” sequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might remember a really impressive fan-made overhaul of Metroid II: Return of Samus \u2013 better known as Project AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) \u2013 that was released in 2016. Ever wondered what the creator has been up to since it was shut down by Nintendo? Well, it was actually a dream outcome for him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}