Everybody’s saying it: issues simply aren’t what they was once. The place are the actual heroes, you understand? The titans who constructed the video games we grew up with? Are all of them gone? Are all of them departed to Eressëa, by no means to return?
Oh, they’re nonetheless right here. Properly, my mistake.
This I’ve learnt from current posts by Elliott Grey, UI designer on Bungie’s Marathon, made in response to gamers lamenting the studio pitching itself as “The creator of Halo” when—so urged our disgruntled participant—the person employees who initially made Halo have lengthy since moved on.
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Drawback with that take is: loads of them have not moved on. Grey sprang into motion, rattling off an inventory of 40 builders at Bungie who’re nonetheless round from the Halo days. “Rattling,” wrote Grey, “I am going to have to inform this to Chris Butcher and Jason Jones and Tom Gioconda and Dave Gasca and Mat Noguchi and Bob Glessner and Lars Bakken and Tyson Inexperienced and Dan Miller and Shi Kai Wang…” and so forth, you get the thought. Here is the total checklist of devs Grey named in a barely extra digestible format:
Chris ButcherJason JonesTom GiocondaDave GascaMat NoguchiBob GlessnerLars BakkenTyson GreenDan MillerShi Kai WangEric EltonSteve CottonSam JonesMark UyedaJames HaywoodDavid AllenEamon McKenzieBen WommackRew DavisTom BurlingtonMark FliegDorje BellbrookJustin TrumanStosh StewardMatt RichenburgPaul LewellenMark GoldsworthyJavier BurgosBlake LowDerek CarrollDavid AldridgeSam ArguezBrad FishMike HoffmanMatt KellyBrian FrankJason SussmanDrew ShyDan CallanMatt Kelly
rattling i am going to have to inform this to chris butcher and jason jones and tom gioconda and dave gasca and mat noguchi and bob glessner and lars bakken and tyson inexperienced and dan miller and shi kai wang and eric elton and steve cotton and sam jones and mark uyeda and and james haywood and 15, 2026
Which is, uh, numerous names. Sufficient names that I am pretty sure Bungie can fairly get away with persevering with to name itself the studio that made Halo. It is not an exhaustive checklist, both: “That is simply the folks I do know off the highest of my head who labored on a Halo title who’re STILL at Bungie,” wrote Grey.
Chiming in to again Grey up was Mark Noseworthy, former Future vice prez who was laid off from the studio in 2024. “Along with Elliott’s reality nuke under, there’s a scarcity of appreciation within the OP’s put up for cultural and know-how legacies,” wrote Noseworthy. “Individuals move these down, piece by piece, as new folks be a part of and others depart an organization.
“It’s one of many causes the texture of Bungie video games have remained robust for 25 years (even whereas the gameplay group members have modified a number of occasions). The Ship of Theseus is an efficient metaphor as a result of it’s BOTH the unique ship and the NEW one on the identical time. Not a dunk in any respect.”
