What do you do when your game unexpectedly sets the gaming world on fire? That’s the question that independent studio Thatgamecompany found themselves asking back in 2012 after their third game, ...
“That letter made it all worth it,” said Jenova Chen, the cofounder of Thatgamecompany, which won game of the year last night for Journey at the DICE Summit. It’s a PlayStation Network downloadable ...
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Thatgamecompany's co-founder and the director of Journey and Sky: Children of the Light goes by Jenova Chen, but that isn't his real first name. In an ...
It’s not a stretch to say that Journey was one of the more influential games of the last decade. The 2012 adventure game starred a silent protagonist adventuring through a desert surrounding, ...
thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen talks about his fascinating game development career, from growing up as a gamer in China to what it took to create Journey, as well as his quest to bring games ...
Jenova Chen is on a crusade to mature videogames, but he is not cribbing from The Sopranos. The creative director of thatgamecompany - the indie game studio incubated within Sony Santa Monica - wants ...
How they’re innovating: For newbie game designers fresh out of USC’s Interactive Media program, things happened pretty fast for Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen. Almost as soon as they’d graduated and ...