Sumo Digital (LON:SUMO) has appointed Ed Daly as the new studio director of The Chinese Room.
The Brighton-based studio came to prominence with its exploratory narrative games Dear Esther and the critically-acclaimed Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, as well as creating Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Google Daydream exclusive So Let Us Melt.
Daly – who has twenty years’ experience in running studios – is returning to games after working with interactive technology in theme parks. Joining co-founder and creative director Dan Pinchbeck, he hoping to “build a team to develop the innovative, original IP The Chinese Room is known for”.