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Bokeh Game Studio, headed by Silent Hill and Siren series creator Keiichiro Toyama, has revealed that it\u2019s working on a new, large-scale title. In a recruitment message<\/a> penned by Toyama himself, the company announced that its hiring staff across multiple positions for the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be Bokeh Game Studio\u2019s second title after Slitterhead<\/strong>, an AA-scale horror action game that released in 2024 to moderately positive reception. In his new message, Toyama describes Slitterhead as a project that helped his studio \u201cfinally reach a starting line,\u201d suggesting the game was Bokeh\u2019s way of starting out small before moving onto something more ambitious in scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Bokeh Game Studio has 35 staff members, and all of them are involved in the new unnamed project. Toyama admits that the development process is a \u201ccycle of trial-and-error and by no means an easy path,\u201d but encourages experienced developers to join his team for the opportunity to shape the project while it’s in its formative stages. The studio is looking to upsize by at least sixteen people, including programmers, artists, game designers and marketing staff. Incidentally, most of the openings are listed as urgent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reiterating on Bokeh Game Studio\u2019s values, Toyama says the goal is to pursue originality and create games that nobody else can. \u201cThis doesn’t mean we pursue novelty for its own sake, but rather that we persistently ask ourselves \u2018Why create this? Why should we be the ones to create it?\u2019 and never abandon these questions until we achieve creative expression only possible to us,\u201d he writes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new project is likely the same one Toyama briefly referenced<\/a> in July last year, which means it\u2019s been in the works for quite some time now. While information is still scarce, we do<\/em> know what it won\u2019t be a sequel to Slitterhead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/strong>Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama made a prototype for an \u201cAAA Siren successor\u201d while at Sony, which became the basis for Slitterhead<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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