Atlus introduced on Wednesday that composer Shoji Meguro has left the corporate as of the top of September. On the identical day, Kodansha introduced that it’s going to help the composer in growing a brand new indie recreation by means of the corporate’s Kodansha Sport Creators Lab initiative. Meguro added within the announcement that he’ll proceed to work on music for Atlus video games.

Meguro revealed with the announcement that he has been growing indie role-playing video games by himeself for the previous 5 years underneath the pseudonym “Megarock.” Meguro utilized for the initiative’s “Spherical 1 Recruitment” in September, and although he was not chosen, he was awarded a 500,000 yen (about US$4,300) particular prize and a “separate place.” Kodansha Sport Creators Lab will reveal Meguro’s new recreation on the Indie Stay Expo Winter occasion on November 6.

The Kodansha Sport Creators Lab is an initiative that seeks to help indie builders with a ten million yen (about US$87,700) prize after recruitment screening.

Meguro is finest recognized for composing quite a few soundtracks to video games within the Shin Megami Tensei sequence, particularly the sequence’ Persona spinoff video games. He joined Atlus in 1995, and his first work with the corporate was with the primary Persona recreation (titled Revelations: Persona within the West).

Sources: Atlus, PR Instances, Gamer through Gematsu