Today, the former narrative director of the GEARS of WAR franchise, Bonnie Jean Mah) announced that she joined the developer of God of War Sony Santa Monica.
According to the message made on the website X (formerly Twitter), at a new place of work it will also work as a narrative director.
Mach spent most of her career in the gaming industry in The Coalition, the developer of GEARS of War, starting in 2012, when it was also called the Black Tusk Studios, as a narrative designer of an unhanged game, and in 2014 by moving on to the position of manager for the narrative of the franchise GEARS of WAR IP.
During the work in The Coalition, she held several posts related to the narrative, becoming the head of the franchise storytelling in 2019, and in 2020 – the director of the narrative of the franchise, participating, in particular, in the creation of GEARS 5 and GEARS TACTICS.
In addition, she worked twice in Relic Entertainment, where she held the posts of the scriptwriter and storytelling designer in the game Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, as well as the host of the screenwriter and leading author in the game Age of Empires IV.
The last place of work is Timi Montréal studio, owned by Tencent, where it worked for about two years as a narrative director. Since January 2022, she has been working on a multi -platform role -playing game with an open world in AAA format in the framework of the new IP, which has not yet been announced.
If we assume that it can work on the God of War franchise, then not many developers manage to apply their talent to the stories of two large franchises with the same abbreviation and two general words of the name of three.
The Sony Santa Monica studio has recently released the GOD of War Ragnarok and, according to rumors, is working on another game in the series, although at the moment nothing official has been announced. As of January 2023. The last game of the franchise diverged 11 million. copies.