Dan Teasdale, senior designer for Rock Band, has resigned from Harmonix to pursue a more “hands on” development opportunity. Today, Teasdale has announced that he will be heading to Twisted Pixel, development studio for Comic Jumper and ‘Splosion Man.
In a post from his blog, Teasdale expressed the desire to work with smaller games in order to have a more hands-on influence in the creation process. "I want to be able to help drive the vision and direction of a game," he said, "but at the same time be hands on and physically implement and iterate on the low level of making games in a more substantial way than time affords me when working as a lead on multi-hundred person titles."
Teasdale was the lead designer for Rock Band 3, set for release sometime later this year. Though Beatles: Rock Band enjoyed higher sales than Guitar Hero 5 back in October 2009, Teasdale’s move could foreshadow something more than just a simple move as the music games genre has seen a steady decrease in sales for some time now.
