'I Want to Tell My Own Stories': The Last of Us Star Troy Baker Is Building a Game Studio 1
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You'll be familiar with Troy Baker from his many performances in video games — from Joel in The Last of Us to Jack Pepper in MOUSE: P.I. for Hire — but it seems he has ambitions to make his own titles.

Speaking on the Kinda Funny Gamescast, he talks about his desire to create original games with his own studio:

"To be able to take those tenets and principles, lessons, and losses, and be able to form something new out of that — I want to tell my own stories," Baker says when asked about the matter.

"I want to proliferate the wisdom and the experience those other great studios — and bad — have given me, and be able to fold that into new experiences, and try my hand at it."

He says he wants to build a studio and a team of people he trusts, and ask them "Here's my idea, how can you make it better?"

Host Greg Miller asks how far along this project is, and Baker responds by saying he doesn't want to rush into it.

"Because I've seen a lot of people that have rushed into opportunities, and I want to do it right," he says. "Especially if I'm gonna create a studio where other people are gonna be responsible for my choices, I have to make the right ones."

This follows on from recent commentary from Baker in which he says he feels like he "just got started".

Though he was mostly talking about his acting work, it seems he has ambitions to do more. It sounds like we may not see the result of this effort anytime soon, but it'll be interesting to see where it goes.

[source youtube.com]