Now that Hideo Kojima's weirdo blockbuster Death Stranding is circulating for the sake of reviews and early gameplay impressions, technical details about the game are now coming to light in addition to assessments of its gameplay. Among these, the game's credits have now revealed that more than 70 employees of Guerrilla Games, the developers of another PS4 hit, Horizon: Zero Dawn, had a hand in bringing Kojima's vision to life.

That developers from Guerrilla Games worked on Death Stranding at all is no surprise. Kojima announced in 2016 that some employees of Guerrilla would provide technical support to his own studio, Kojima Productions, via a sattellite team established at its Amsterdam-based headquarters. Now that the game's full list of credits are out there, they have shown the full extent of that support.

The majority of the work done by Guerrilla Games was by its engineering department. In total, 40 engineers from the Dutch studio contributed to Death Stranding. These include the lead game programmer from Horizon: Zero Dawn, Tommy De Roos; technical director Michiel van der Leeuw; lead programmer Frank Compagner; and Horizon: Zero Dawn's lead AI programmer, Arjen Beij.

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Outside of those from its engineering department, other Guerrilla Games employees who previously worked on Horizon: Zero Dawn that contributed to Kojima's newest title include lead technical animator Bart Wijsman, art director Jan-Bart Van Beek, senior quest designer James Kneuper, lead environment artist Kim Van Heest, lead lighting artist Roderick van der Steen, and technical art director Maarten van der Gaag.

The development of Death Stranding and the extent to which the people working on it have been involved first became a topic of discussion due to Kojima marketing the title as "a Hideo Kojima game." This spawned a number of think pieces discussing what it means to subtitle a game with the name of one key contributor, when the nature of game development (at least of a game the size of Death Stranding) necessitates huge numbers of work hours from a large number of collaborators. For those in the anti-Kojima camp, the extent of Guerrilla Games' involvement may add fuel to the fire, while for those who enjoyed Horizon: Zero Dawn, some of its team's involvement may simply be a promising sign of what's to come when Death Stranding is released on November 8.

Source: Video Games Chronicle

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