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Tuulik even had a message for his former colleagues (“comrades”) at ZA/UM, including Kurvitz and Rostov:

“To all other former respected comrades (Kurvitz, Rostov, everyone) – long time no hear, but we would love for you to join the struggle as well: time to roll up our sleeves and start building communism!”

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[-] Bisexual_Cookie@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

wait how many are there now? 5?

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • ZA/UM itself, or it's shambling corpse.

  • Red Info. The company Kurvitz and Rostov founded after they left ZA/UM, funded by Netease. Unfortunately we don't know much about what they are doing, other than that they have a project. Understandably the legal battle for the rights of Disco Elysium probably came first.

  • Longdue. Unfortunately we know the least about this studio, just some concept art and some PR speak.

  • Dark Math. This studio has a trailer for a game that's um... a little familiar, it's also associated with Kaur Kender who was one of the people involved in the shenanigans that went down at ZA/UM. Article

  • and now Summer Eternal, who don't have a trailer or proof of concept or pretty much anything except a manifesto (and are therefore the true inheritors of the crown, imo). That said, they're explicitly set up as a worker's co-op with a structure that's designed to prevent a hostile takeover, so it seems some hard lessons have been learnt

The scuttlebutt is that ZA/UM's non-compete clause for their ex-staff expired today, which is the reason for all these announcements, but that's speculation that can't be corroborated so take it with a pinch of salt.

[-] Bisexual_Cookie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

thx! :) oh the non-compete clause thing would make a lot of sense, i was wondering why it was all happening so close to each other. Summer eternal does seem promising!

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