Metroid Prime 4: Retro Studios seeks designers, animators and artists

Retro Studios publishes a new job vacancy for its highly anticipated video game planned for Nintendo Switch. The title remains undated.

Retro Studios has released a new job offer for the development of Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch, the new iteration of the popular series launched on GameCube as a three-dimensional part of the Metroid license, with almost thirty years behind it. This time around, the Texan team is looking for an artificial intelligence designer in enemies and bosses; Likewise, on the website attached to its statement, issued on Twitter, there are new vacancies for the level design department and animators.

This year alone there is evidence of the hiring of a veteran GTA and Overwatch producer, the director of Warhawk, a new chief producer, a veteran of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, artists of Battlefield and Star Wars and a designer of Super Lucky’s Tale.

We are looking for a 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀 / 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 to join us on our journey to develop Metroid Prime 4! #GameJobs #GameDev #GameDevJobshttps: //t.co/NWVPLGel3E pic.twitter.com/T6Hexjia6s

– Retro Studios (@RetroStudios) December 14, 2020

Metroid Prime 4, almost two years without news after its restart

Last February, in FreeGameTips we published this article in which we review the first full year after the restart of the game back in January 2019. The studio based in Austin, Texas, connoisseurs of the Metroid license after taking care of the three episodes originals, assumed the position of this fourth canonical episode after an internal restructuring of the project; initially it was being developed by another team, whose name never came out, although different media reports indicate that it was a delegation from Bandai Namco in Singapore.

Shinya Takahashi, from Nintendo, reported that Kensuke Tanabe was taking the reins as producer (also a product of Luigi’s Mansion 3, among many others) and made it clear that we were going to have to wait “quite a long time” because the objective is none other than the title to come out on sale when it is “at the level of the rest of the titles of the Metroid Prime series.”

Since April 2019 and up to the present date, the succession of offers, vacancies and positions of responsibility available on the Retro Studios web portal have been a constant. Dozens of offers. Metroid Prime 4 is planned for Nintendo Switch, but its estimated release date is unknown.