Reflector Entertainment founder Alexandre Amancio has introduced his departure from the corporate. On Amancio’s LinkedIn web page, he refers to his leaving as beforehand deliberate, and he’ll formally depart the transmedia firm initially of 2023. 

“Building an organization has really been some of the difficult endeavors that I’ve undertaken, however it has additionally been some of the rewarding,” wrote Amancio. “I wish to thank the Bandai Namco workforce and all of the superb Reflectorians.

Amancio beforehand labored at Ubisoft as artistic director on Assassin’s Creed Unity, and left that writer in 2015. He would go on to discovered Reflector that very same yr. In 2020, Reflector and its subsidiary sport growth studio, Reflector Interactive Productions, had been acquired by Bandai Namco. 

Of the Bandai Namco acquisition, Amancio in his publish referred to as it “important for the way forward for the studio and the Unknown 9 Storyworld. Consequently, I dedicated to staying on board to make sure the Storyworld I helped usher into this world would see the sunshine of day.”

The Canadian studio’s curiosity is in creating “Storyworlds,” aka cross-media franchises. Its first try at that is Unknown 9, a mystical thriller spanning a e book trilogy, a podcast, and the 2023 sport Unknown 9: Awakening. 

More just lately, Reflector introduced in October Bandai Namco has enlisted it to develop a sport based mostly on one of many Japanese writer’s properties. 

Said current Reflector CEO Hervé Hoerdt on the time, the venture is “an natural and pre-planned evolution within the growth of Reflector Entertainment, which has established itself as a significant asset.”