This video is a short documentary talking about how idTech developers and how they came together to make their own employee-owned indie studio. Good stuff!
This video is a short documentary talking about how idTech developers and how they came together to make their own employee-owned indie studio. Good stuff!
And now, free from corporate shackles they’ll be free to make some actual interesting innovative games again. These innovative games will probably sell well, attracting attention of larger companies who will buy the new gaming studio. Said larger company will churn out generic sequels while slowly firing all the old talent. As the quality diminishes and the formulaic slop they’re now making stops selling, the big company will fire everyone and close down the studio. Many of those fired devs will get together and form a new game studio and start publishing interesting games…
Hopefully we can stop that cycle by skipping the “larger companies […] will buy the new gaming studio” step. We just want to make games. We’re not doing this to get rich.
You can’t stop the cycle. You merely get to watch it being repeated over and over again if you live long enough.
You take the gems that are produced in the first half of the cycle, then move on.
it would be such a wasted opportunity for them to jump straight into bed with some other cunt capitalist whos just gonna pull the same shit, rather than forming a worker cooperative and ensuring if they do well theyll be rewarded with money and security.
I mean, innovative isnt a guarantee when leaving a company.
Lets not forget the devs who wanted an employee owned game after apex legends to form the game we know as Highguard.
Since they make money off of this, it doesn’t even seem too bad, if you put it like that.