Davide Soliani, the director of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, recently revealed his new indie studio, Day 4 Night.
Focused on delivering "deeply heartfelt and original games that innovate in storytelling and design", its a bold new venture for the creator who had previously spent 25 years with Ubisoft. It's a good job that he's bringing some serious talent on board, then, with his latest announcement confirming that legendary composer Grant Kirkhope will not only be the team's composer, but a 'full-fledged member'.
"At D4n, we’re incredibly honored to announce that Grant will not only be our official composer but also a full-fledged member of our team. I tried to convince my partners that it was a bad idea, but they wouldn’t listen. There’s no way out now. (Welcome, my friend)"
Kirkhope collaborated with Soliani on the aforementioned Mario & Rabbids games, but is perhaps best known for his contributions with developer Rare to iconic Nintendo-related titles such as GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, and Star Fox Adventures.
Soliani announced his new studio last month, confiming that Christian Cantamessa, lead designer for Red Dead Redemption, had also joined as co-director for the studio's first title.
Are you looking forward to seeing what Day 4 Night is cooking up for its debut title? Let us know what you think it might be with a comment down below.
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I'm super excited to see what these guys can come up with. Whatever it is, I'll likely be there day 1!
Who's their publisher again? Nacon?
Not going to lie. I am pretty excited about this!
Oh wow, so Kirkhope will be too busy to do music for Playtonic/Yooka Laylee games now? That's a shame, but I look forward to seeing what this team does.
Love to hear it, looking forward to seeing/hearing what they'll come up with even more than I already was!
I am actually curious to see how they will "innovate in storytelling", that's an aspect I usually don't really care for in games. So who knows ... might be interesting ... but with the studio being brand new, I guess it will take a few years before there's something to try out.
As to making the famous composer a full time employee, I guess he will be more busy with creating a team and teaching his craft than actually making music for games years in the making. Good for him.
Go Grant Go!
Big fan so look forward to seeing what he comes up with in this new position.
Such a humble legend.
Lots of classic talent mixed in with new talent. Love to hear about it and I hope this will give the spotlight to some new upcomers that take the risk in joining a new studio.
@Elbow He might still have a contract in place for a number of future projects. I think this moreso means don't expect any Kickstarter projects to appear going forward that are like, "Grant Kirkhope decided to hang out with us!!"
@Elbow Yooka-Laylee 2 has been in development for about 2/3 years now. The music is probably already done I think.
Tough I'm not really an expert on how this stuff work.
Wow, that's gonna bang. Don't want to get overhype on D4n before they produce software, but they're starting out right at least.
It feels like Grant Kirkhope has been freelancing for decades at this point. What an exciting place for him to end up. I hope he makes some good bank and that this studio produces some great games.
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Very happy to hear this. The constant witty banter between Grant and Davide was, for me, the greatest thing about Mario + Rabbids, seeing as I never actually played the games. ^^
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