Michel Ancel, Creator of Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil, Quits Game Industry

Cult French game-designer Michel Ancel unexpectedly announced the end of his career in the game industry. The reason is simple — he found a new hobby.

Ansel is primarily known as the author of the Rayman series and the original Beyond Good & Evil. He also worked on the interactive adaptation of “King Kong” by Peter Jackson — the game received a warm welcome from critics and players.

After the release of Rayman Legends, Ansel worked on two ambitious projects at once — WiLD for Sony and Beyond Good & Evil 2 for Ubisoft. According to him, both games are in good hands. Their development is going very well. Soon we’ll see the results of the past years of work.

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WoW ! This little guy has many things to teach to Sam Fisher ! Today is very special for me. After more than 30 years, I’ve decided to stop working on video games and fully focus on my second passion : Wild Life ! My new project takes place in the real world and consists in a wild life open sanctuary dedicated to education , nature lovers and … wild animals. 🎮🎮🎮 video games part 🎮🎮🎮 Many of you might want to know what will happen to Wild and BGE2. No worries, since many months now the teams are autonomous and the projects are going super well. Beautiful things to be seen soon. May the fox be with you 🦊

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Now Ancel will be studying wild life all over the world — watching and studying nature and animals.