Silent Hill dad Keiichiro Toyama has gone out on his own to start a new game studio, called Bokeh Game Studio. He announced this himself this week, with a video that you can watch above.
Toyama is best known for creating the first Silent Hill game in 1999, before leaving Konami for Sony Japan. At the PlayStation maker, he worked as a director, designer and writer on both the Siren: Blood Curse and the Gravity Rush series.
Despite a good collaboration with Sony, Toyama felt that he needed a change to achieve his own ambitions.
– The global gaming industry has changed at lightning speed and continues to change all the time. Having participated in this drive day in and day out, I have felt that extensive changes have been necessary to achieve my own ambitions. That is why I have decided to become independent, Toyama says in an interview with Famitsu (Via Gematsu).
The first game will be an action adventure
In Bokeh, Toyama has brought with him two other veterans in Japanese game development. Kazunobu Sato has experience as a producer on The Last Guardian, while Junya Okura worked with Toyama on Gravity Rush.
Exactly what the trio has planned, they currently keep secret. To Famitsu, however, Toyama confirmed that work is underway on the first game on the agenda. It will be a completely new action adventure, coming to «different platforms».
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