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Beyond Good and Evil 2 gets new creative director, Fawzi Mesmar

Mesmar has been at Ubisoft for more than three years and worked on the BG&E 20th Anniversary Edition, as well as Star Wars Outlaws.

TJ Denzer

October 24, 2024 10:08 AM

Image via Ubisoft

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 now has a new creative director to see it through for the foreseeable future following the unexpected passing of previous director Emile Morel last year. Three-year veteran leadership Fawzi Mesmar is stepping into the role from here on out to oversee the game’s creative development.

Fawzi Mesmar shared his appointment to the creative director role on Beyond Good and Evil 2 via his personal LinkedIn profile. There, he revealed that he will be taking up the mantle of creative director to see Beyond Good and Evil 2 through to its finish:

Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been in development turmoil for quite a few years. Officially confirmed at E3 2017, the game has seen a number of setbacks over the years, losing some leadership to workplace harassment investigations. However, maybe one of the biggest blows to BG&E2’s progress came when previous creative director Emile Morel unexpectedly passed away in June 2023.

For his part, Fawzi Mesmar has been involved in a number of high-profile productions at Ubisoft during his time there, including the Mario + Rabbids series, Star Wars Outlaws, and the Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition. Before Ubisoft, he was head of design at DICE and studio design director at King.

With Mesmar now leading Beyond Good and Evil 2, stay tuned for more news on the game as it drops, right here at Shacknews.

TJ Denzer

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.