ZA/UM Studio, the corporate behind Disco Elysium, just announced a new game known as Undertaking [C4]. It’s being described as a “genre-defining RPG” and there’s a teaser trailer that’s gentle on gameplay however heavy on disturbing imagery.
Primarily based on the trailer, we nonetheless don’t know if the sport will pull mechanics or visuals from the highly-regarded Disco Elysium. A press launch did be aware that folk would play as a spy of some kind and advised that the sport might truly, partially, happen within the human mind. All the things else continues to be shrouded in secrecy.
What’s not shrouded in secrecy? ZA/UM has had, to place it flippantly, a tumultuous several years since Disco Elysium was launched in 2019. It has been stricken by layoffs, firings and departures of the core group that made Disco Elysium, together with creator Robert Kurvitz, artwork director Aleksander Rostov and author Helen Hindpere.
Again in 2022, the corporate’s new govt suite fired all three, accusing them of misconduct and tried mental property theft. It’s value noting that Kurvitz wrote the novel that Disco Elysium relies on, so we aren’t certain how somebody might steal from their very own guide. Lawsuits were filed and Kurvitz and Rostov set up their own company.
The pair additionally refuted the allegations of IP theft, writing in an open letter that they had been fired as they tried to research suspicious exercise surrounding the takeover of ZA/UM by Estonian businessmen Ilmar Kompus and Tõnis Haavel. These two had been beforehand convicted of investment fraud. The pair has additionally been accused of making a hostile work atmosphere, notably for ladies.
"I do know a minimum of 5 ladies who've left or been made to go away the studio since Disco’s launch, naming Tõnis Haavel as a significant factor. There are zero ladies in inventive management and only a few ladies in management positions on the whole,” a former author for Disco Elsyium told PC Gamer amidst recent company-wide layoffs.
A handful of different earlier ZA/UM staff just lately fashioned a dev firm known as Longdue to create a brand new recreation that acts as a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. Kurvitz and Rostov’s firm, Pink Information, is claimed to be making a brand new recreation with the financial backing of NetEase, however no concrete particulars have been launched.
This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-studio-that-technically-made-disco-elysium-has-a-new-game-in-the-works-185218695.html?src=rss
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