officially has a new creative director, with veteran designer Fawzi Mesmar announcing that he is taking the reins in the wake of the . "Today I’m glad to share that I joined Beyond Good & Evil 2 as Creative Director. I have been working with those peeps for years now on this ambitious game and witnessed their talent firsthand," Mesmar wrote on .
"I am standing on the shoulders of creative giants that have supported the team before me, and I look forward to continuing to craft a game that is truly unique for players to enjoy." IGN has reached out to Ubisoft for further comment and an update on the status of the game, which has remained largely under wraps since first being revealed in 2017. Mesmar has held numerous positions over the course of his lengthy career in the games industry, including the head of design at DICE between 2019 and 2021, and over the last three years has been the Vice President of Global Creative at Ubisoft.
Earlier this year he received an ambassador award at the . Mesmar will help lead a project that has come to be known as one of gaming's most infamous cases of vaporware. Much is known about it save that it's an open world prequel to the original Beyond Good & Evil and that it is being developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, with a handful of early demos emerging over the years.
The game's original director, Michel Ancel, departed Ubisoft in 2020, though he's now consulting on a . Notably, it seems as if Beyond Good & Evil 2 is starting to pick up steam. .
