Ex-Disco Elysium devs protest two rival studios
Tom Regan, Contributing Editor
October 11, 2024
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Two studios take pleasure in fashioned from the smoldering ashes of ZA/UM, the builders of 2019’s critically-acclaimed Disco Elysium. After a few excessive-profile workers exits at ZA/UM and a slew of upright troubles, two current London-essentially primarily primarily based studios take pleasure in emerged: Dismal Math Video video games and Longdue Video video games.
Longdue Video video games is comprised of 12 of us, together with Disco Elysium producers and ex-Bungie and Rockstar devs, and has introduced a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. Whereas the mission is presently untitled, Longdue has launched a lone piece of concept artwork for the recreation.
The clicking launch describes the mission as “a psychogeographic RPG” that “explores the heavenly interaction between the unsleeping and unconscious, the thought of and unseen. Area in a world the arrange decisions ripple between the character’s psyche and ambiance, gamers will navigate a repeatedly transferring panorama, normal by each inside and exterior forces.”
A calculated menace
Dismal Math Video video games is engaged on a single participant ‘upright detective RPG’ entitled XXX Nightshift. Created from 20 of us—half of of which “contributed” to Disco Elysium—the studio has launched a trailer that appears remarkably equal to ZA/UM’s BAFTA-winning RPG.
Artwork director Timo Albert explains what gamers can quiz from XXX Nightshift: “Moreover to innovating the previous RPG mechanics, we’ll elevate one thing serene to the desk. You may discover. And naturally, a pair of a lot much less phrases. And a pair of extra bullets, in all probability. In complete: lot extra stress-free.”
Robert Kurvitz, the lead creator and clothier of Disco Elysium and Aleksander Rostov, the recreation’s artwork director, are at neither studio, and are reportedly engaged on a recreation of their take pleasure in, at a 3rd studio named Crimson Knowledge.
The announcement of the studios comes amid information of layoffs at ZA/UM.
Concerning the Creator
Contributing Editor, Recreation Developer
Tom Regan is a contract journalist holding video video games, tune and know-how from London, England. The pale Video video games Editor at Wikia’s Fandom, Tom is now a weird critic and reporter at The Guardian, specialising in telling the human tales on the help of recreation building. That it’s seemingly you will perchance additionally learn his writing on video video games within the newspaper, in addition to to his musings on know-how and pa tradition in shops admire NME, Steel Hammer, Gamesradar, VGC and EDGE, to title nonetheless a pair of.