Halo Studios Expands Team To Accelerate Development, Appoints New Lead Game Designer

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Halo Studios has expanded its development team in order to accelerate development, according to a number of new job listings.

Job listings for several positions at Halo Studios have been posted on the careers portal on Microsoft’s official website, suggesting that the studio has expanded its development team in order to accelerate the development of future Halo projects.

Among the new jobs for upcoming Halo projects are positions for Senior Matchmaking and Social Systems Designer, Character Artist, Senior VFX Artist, Senior Environment Technical Artist, and Narrative Systems Designer. Going by the new employment opportunities at Halo Studios, development on the next Halo projects appears to be speeding up.

Furthermore, former Forge Lead Designer Michael Schorr has been promoted to Halo Studio’s Lead Game Designer. He was responsible for developing the vision, design, and player experience for Halo Infinite’s Forge, shepherding Forge features from concept to release.  He worked closely with other Halo Infinite teams to bring existing systems, tools, features, and content into Forge. Additionally, he established a rapport with the Halo Infinite UGC community, worked with the Forge community to collect, respond to, and implement Forge feedback and feature requests, worked closely with 343 teams to understand player sentiment on Forge.

Schorr also helped to create the internal process for developing 343 maps in Forge, to drive the development and release of 343 created maps in Forge (Argyle, Detachment, Empyrean) and to establish schedule and roadmaps of the Halo Infinite playlist structure and content. He worked closely with Halo Infinite teams to ensure playlist plans were understood and content dependencies were identified.

According to a recent job listing, Sledgehammer Games is working on an “unexpected” game running on Unreal Engine 5. Twitter/X insider TheGhostOfHope had claimed that this is the Halo title they had hinted at earlier. They refrained from offering any further clarity on the matter.