Omar Cornut, one of the co-founders of developer Lizardcube, has announced his departure from the company after his own aspirations and vision became less aligned with the wider team.
Lizarcube is known for its work on Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap and Streets of Rage 4, with Cornut and Ben Fiquet kickstarting the company out of a shared love of old Sega licenses. Cornut states "I want to make games differently" and that he "didn't want to be swimming against the tide", prompting him to leave Lizardcube in the capable hands of Fiquet and the rest of the team.
He has now started another company by the name of Disco Hello and says that "there's a game that is starting to brew in my mind".
Fiquet shared Cornut's statement on social media and commended him as a "beautiful person", noting that although the pair are now on different paths, he will always cherish the time they had together.
Both Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap and Streets of Rage 4 have been met with widespread positive reception, receiving scores of 8/10 and 9/10 respectively from yours truly. Lizardcube is currently hard at work on its next project, though no concrete announcements have been made at the time of writing.