Halo’s co-creator wrote a novel about AI taking over the world
Halo co-creator Jason Jones and author Margaret Stohl have launched Stone Kite, a worldbuilding studio focused on multi-platform storytelling. The studio is currently developing a sci-fi universe centered on an AI uprising, starting with graphic novels.
Why it matters
The studio's platform-agnostic approach reflects a modern strategy for building intellectual property that can transition seamlessly between comics, games, and film.
Back in 2019, author Margaret Stohl was handed a manuscript written by Jason Jones, who’s best known as the co-creator of sci-fi gaming series Halo and Destiny. The two had worked together at Bungie, and Jones wanted Stohl’s opinion on a book he was writing about AI taking over the world. It was an oral history of the fictional events, with around 100 characters spread across 40 countries, all detailing the AI uprising from their own perspectives. Pretty quickly Stohl realized that this idea could be much more than a single book.
“I was floored but not surprised,” she says of her reaction to the original manuscript. “He’s a worldbuilder who builds at an epic scale. And his worlds are these huge stages that invite in a ton of other collaborators and creators.”
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