{"id":19159,"date":"2018-05-02T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:15:00","slug":"retro-studios-writer-and-cinematic-designer-parts-company-with-the-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/02\/retro-studios-writer-and-cinematic-designer-parts-company-with-the-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Studios Writer And Cinematic Designer Parts Company With The Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\" readability=\"2\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Verrall and Jonathan Silver in LARPs\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Jon Verrall and Jonathan Silver in LARPs<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jon Verrall &#8211; writer and cinematic designer at Retro Studios &#8211; has revealed on Twitter that he&#8217;s leaving the company after almost two years.<\/p>\n<p>Verrall &#8211; who refers to himself as an &#8220;award-winning writer, cinematics director, voice director, choreographer, and performer for video games and Internet television&#8221; on this <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jonverrall\/\">LinkedIn profile<\/a> &#8211; previously wrote, produced and appeared in the web series <strong>LARPs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Retro in 2016. We assume he has been working on the company&#8217;s as-yet-unannounced new project; the studio&#8217;s last title was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\"><strong>Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/strong><\/a>, released way back in 2014. An enhanced version of the game is about to launch on the Switch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"4.70338983051\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"12.2288135593\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve had a wonderful time at Retro Studios\u2014the people there are awesome, and I&#8217;ll miss them dearly. But&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for me to return. Salut, Montr\u00e9al! I&#8217;ll be home May 15, and I can&#8217;t wait!\u2014 Jon Verrall (@JonVerrall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonVerrall\/status\/991062965536395266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We wish Jon all the best in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Verrall and Jonathan Silver in LARPs Jon Verrall &#8211; writer and cinematic designer at Retro Studios &#8211; has revealed on Twitter that he&#8217;s leaving the company after almost two years. Verrall &#8211; who refers to himself as an &#8220;award-winning writer, cinematics director, voice director, choreographer, and performer for video games and Internet television&#8221; on [&hellip;]<\/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-19159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159","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=19159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}