{"id":13870,"date":"2011-09-06T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"halo-4-creative-director-quits-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13870-halo-4-creative-director-quits-project","title":{"rendered":"Halo 4 creative director quits project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halo 4 might still be a year out from launch, but the project has already seen its creative director walk out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had a great run at Microsoft,&#8221; Ryan Payton told <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5837475\/halo-creative-director-leaving-halo-4\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kotaku\">Kotaku<\/a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t regret one day of it. But after a few years, there came a point where I wasn&#8217;t creatively excited about the project anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Halo I wanted to build was fundamentally different and I don&#8217;t think I had built enough credibility to see such a crazy endeavour through,&#8221; said Payton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For somebody who loves this industry as much as I do and know how lucky I&#8217;ve been, I never thought I&#8217;d get to a point where I was so drained,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That was when I knew I had to do something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Non-disclosure agreements mean Payton can&rsquo;t talk much about his work on the game, although he confirms collaborating with Halo franchise director Frank O&rsquo; Connor on the game&rsquo;s story and universe.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17368-Halo-4-creative-director-leaves-the-project\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Halo 4 creative director quits project\"><strong>Halo 4 creative director quits project<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#039;s just not \u201ccreatively excited\u201d about it anymore. This doesn\u2019t look good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}