Marcus Lehto on The 1099 (Interview Podcast) (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 08:37 (2367 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

The biggest tidbit was that he returned to Bungie after he left the first time and worked on a secret project for like 6 months. He said it was something completely new, they had a working prototype, and then Bungie decided that they needed all focus to be on Destiny (can't remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of wanting no distractions and wanting everyone to be focused on shipping Destiny and not thinking about whatever might be next).

Yeah he was posting vaguely about that on Twitter at the time... no details, obviously. Just that he and a small team were working on a separate project from the rest of the studio.

As far as I can remember, and I'm doing this from memory and not from notes, is that after Reach he was allegedly expecting to work on Destiny, but Chris Barrett was already doing it as art lead. He was offered a technical art position, but preferred to be lead on a project and so went on to the new game.