{"id":118169,"date":"2020-09-18T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370444"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:45:00","slug":"rayman-creator-michel-ancel-leaving-games-industry-to-work-on-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/rayman-creator-michel-ancel-leaving-games-industry-to-work-on-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayman creator Michel Ancel leaving games industry to work on wildlife sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned video game designer Michel Ancel is stepping away from the games industry after over three decades to work on a&nbsp;wildlife sanctuary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ancel is best know for creating the <em>Rayman<\/em> franchise and acting as the lead designer on the first two games in the series,<em> Rayman Origins<\/em> and <em>Rayman Legends<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He spent the vast majority of his career at Ubisoft, overseeing the development of other notable titles including<em> Beyond Good &amp; Evil<\/em> and <em>Peter Jackson&#8217;s King Kong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CFRbPpnqCxu\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Announcing his career pivot on Instagram<\/a>, Ancel explained his two current projects &#8212; <em>Beyond Good and Evil 2<\/em> and <em>Wild<\/em>&nbsp;&#8212; are in safe hands, and offered a bit more insight into what his next venture entails.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is very special for me. After more than 30 years, I\u2019ve decided to stop working on video games and fully focus on my second passion: Wild Life&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;My new project takes place in the real world and consists [of] a wild life open sanctuary dedicated to education, nature lovers and wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of you might want to know what will happen to <em>Wild <\/em>and<em> Beyond Good &amp; Evil 2<\/em>. No worries, for many months now the teams have been autonomous and the projects are going super well. [There&#8217;ll be] beautiful things to be seen soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned video game designer Michel Ancel is stepping away from the games industry after over three decades to work on a&nbsp;wildlife sanctuary.&nbsp; Ancel is best know for creating the Rayman franchise and acting as the lead designer on the first two games in the series, Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends.&nbsp; He spent the vast majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118169","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=118169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}