SimCity leads leave Maxis to form Jellygrade Studio
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SimCity creative director Ocean Quigley has left Maxis along with lead architect Andrew Willmott and lead gameplay engineer Dan Moskowitz to set up a new studio called Jellygrade.
The new studio and the trio's departure were announced by Quigley on Twitter.
"We were lead developers on SimCity, SimCity 4, Spore and The Sims2. We love making simulations," wrote Quigley. "We're making a simulation about the dawn of life on earth; about lava, water, rock and the emergence of the first primordial creatures.
"We're starting off on the iPad with a fundamentally new simulation engine. I can't wait to start showing it off. We're building the new simulation engine now."
A concept image of the game in creation was posted on Tumblr.
Via Polygon.