Alex Hutchinson is an Australian video game director and designer. He is best known for his work as the creative director for

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's '' Assassin's Creed III'' and ''

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''. After a long stint at Ubisoft he has since co-founded his own video game development company,

Typhoon Studios Typhoon Studios Inc. was a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal. It was founded by Alex Hutchinson, Yassine Riahi, and Reid Schneider in early 2017 and acquired by Google in December 2019, becoming part of Stadia Games and Entertain ...

Career

Hutchinson began his career in the games industry as a designer at

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in Australia, but quickly left for an opportunity at

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subsidiary, Maxis where he worked as a Lead Designer on the popular gaming series, '' The Sims'' as well as leading the design on ''Spore''. In 2008 he moved to Canada to take a role as Creative Director at

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on '' Army of Two: The 40th Day'' before taking the same role at Ubisoft Montreal where he directed '' Assassin's Creed III'' and ''

''. ''Assassin's Creed III'' was showcased at E3 2012 and ''Far Cry 4'' at

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, where it was presented by Hutchinson himself. In 2017, he founded the video game studio

in Montreal with his partners Yassine Riahi and Reid Schneider. The studio's first game ''

Journey to the Savage Planet ''Journey to the Savage Planet'' is a 2020 adventure game developed by Typhoon Studios and published by 505 Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on January 28, 2020, followed by a Nintendo Switch port on May ...

'' was announced at the 2018 Game Awards. Google, under their

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brand, acquired Typhoon in December 2019. Typhoon Studios was shut down alongside SG&E in February 2021. The ''Journey'' development team was reunited after Hutchinson, Schneider, Yannick Simard, Erick Bilodeau, and Marc-Antoine Lussier founded Raccoon Logic in 2021.

Works

Controversies

On October 22, 2020, Alex Hutchinson tweeted the following: Which generated public backlash. Following, Google stated that what Hutchinson said does not represent the company's vision.

References

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