The creative director ofBeyond Good and Evil 2, Emile Morel, has passed away at the age of 40, leaving behind a legacy of beloved Ubisoft classics and more. A Ubisoft game designer with a particularly long and storied tenure, Morel worked onRayman Legends,among numerous other titles, which is often considered to be one of the finest side-scrolling platforming titles of all time.
Beyond Good and Evil 2has had a long and troubled development period, with Morel only taking over the project earlier in 2023. While this meant that he didn’t have the opportunity to see the project through before passing, his team members have highlighted that Morel did leave a lasting impression and appears to have been happy with the game’s progress.
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Ubisoft reiterated earlier this year thatBeyond Good and Evil 2is still in development, even though there hadn’t been any major news on that front for some time at that point. The unexpected passing of its creative director will surely slow things down for the rest of the dev team. Ubisoft is yet to comment on Morel’s death and what it means for the game’s continued production.
As one of the biggest contemporarygame productions seemingly stuck in development hell, the loss ofBeyond Good and Evil 2’s second creative director is a huge deal. It’s worth remembering that Morel took over from the game’s previous creative director, Jean-Marc Geffroy, earlier in 2023. Geffroy was taken off the project during a restructuring attempt at the studio, and with development still under wraps, it’s unclear how much progress the game has made under Morel’s guidance.
It’s worth pointing out that things seem to have been going better over the past couple of years.Beyond Good and Evil 2devs expected cancellationback in 2021, but the production persevered and may have even hit its stride after Morel took over. Whether such optimism is displaced or not remains to be seen.
Beyond Good and Evil 2is in development.
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