Bluepoint Begins Hiring for New Third-Person Action Project

Bluepoint Games has begun hiring for a new third-person action project, posting listings for senior combat and level designers on its website less than a year after Sony confirmed the cancellation of the studio's live-service God of War title in January. The job descriptions emphasize third-person melee combat, enemy and boss design, and scripting and tuning of encounters and puzzles, offering the clearest indication yet of the studio's next direction.

The Senior Combat Designer posting specifies a requirement for a solid understanding of combat systems and mechanics for third-person melee action experiences and experience designing enemy and boss-type characters. The Senior Level Designer listing calls for the ability to script and tune events, interactions, encounters, puzzles and collision. Together the responsibilities suggest the project will prioritize close-quarters combat systems alongside level-based encounters that include puzzle elements, though the postings do not state whether the game will be single-player, multiplayer, live-service or tied to an existing franchise.

Bluepoint is best known for remakes and remasters, including the studio's 2020 Demon's Souls remake...