Former Call of Duty: Black Ops design director David Vonderhaar founded BulletFarm, a new AAA game studio, following his departure from Treyarch last summer.
BulletFarm will be remote-first with an office in Los Angeles and is another game studio funded by Chinese gaming company NetEase.
The studio's first project will be a first-person AAA game built on Unreal Engine 5 and set in an original universe “with an emphasis on cooperative play,” according to a press release.
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Vonderhaar will lead the studio after 18 years working on Call of Duty games at Treyarch, where he worked on numerous titles in the Black Ops series.
But will BulletFarm's first title be another shooter? It doesn't necessarily seem like it. Today's announcement indicates that the game will offer a “new version” of first-person gameplay, without mentioning a specific genre.
Vonderhaar himself stated that the project would be “something completely new and different.”
“This is a departure from the games I've worked on, but it shows my passion for rich characters, tight mechanics, more intimate storytelling, and lots of action,” he said. “NetEase has provided us with an incredible support structure to explore these new avenues and allowed us true freedom to start building the concept and ideas for our game.”
