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Clint Hocking Launches Build Machine Games After Ubisoft Exit

The veteran creative is building a small Canada-based team to prototype socially relevant, emotionally driven games.

Ubisoft's Clint Hocking introduces "Watch Dogs Legion," June 10, 2019 at the Ubisoft E3 press conference in Los Angeles. The new title is set in a post-Brexit dystopian surveillance state. The E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 11-13. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Veteran designer Clint Hocking announced a new independent studio called Build Machine Games.
  • The studio says it will make emotionally resonant, socially relevant games that challenge players’ perspectives and empathy.
  • Build Machine is hiring Canadian residents for early roles, including a programmer and an artist, to begin work on its first prototype.
  • The team is in an early seed phase, with LinkedIn showing two to ten employees and no other members publicly named.
  • Hocking left Ubisoft in February after a creative-director stint in Montréal, and Ubisoft says Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe continues with a seasoned team.