Last year, a bunch of studios showed that they were not being a successor of Diskang Star. Soon we learned that they all brushed their shoulders in many ways-some of them were controversial or weird Essence Now, Longdue and Dark Mathematics Games and one of the eternal three people, Longdue, revealed the first game it ...
There's a lot to love about Disco Elysium: the writing, the art style, the philosophy, the branching narratives, the little hole in the middle of time and space, the Kaneki Castle Lieutenant… the list goes on. But anyone who has spent a few hours in the tragic yet wonderful world of Disco Elysium will know ...
Dark Math Games – a splinter studio made up of ex-ZA/UM developers currently working on its own detective RPG XXX Nightshift – has just secured fresh funding. The cash infusion was provided by Estonian investment company MM Grupp, which had previously provided financial support to Disco Elysium. According to Gamesindustry.biz, which received exclusive information on ...
It feels like Disco Elysium has been associated with behind-the-scenes mayhem almost since it entered our lives, and while it comes in various forms and involves different groups, it generally follows some similar themes. It’s often very complex – as they say/another person said video game drama usually is – sometimes litigious, sometimes really weird, ...
We’re getting to know more and more studios that revealed earlier this month that they’re working on not-quite Disco Elysium successors, and the creative director behind Longdue has now offered more on how he plans to approach the upcoming Information about launched games. . If you’re having a hard time keeping up, Longdue’s reveal was ...
How do you follow up on your work on Disco Elysium without just making something that’s too much like Disco Elysium to be as innovative as Disco Elysium? It’s a big mystery, and it’s one that Summer Eternal, a new studio made up of former ZA/UM developers, is grappling with and putting forth its own ...
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It’s been a pretty depressing year for the gaming industry, with more layoffs and cuts than anyone can reasonably expect as corporate bigwigs are still taking huge paychecks or jumping on golden parachutes. Developers are doing everything they can to try to fight back this wave of pain, but it’s a tall order, as the ...
“Disco Elysium shaped me as much as I shaped it, and I’m forever grateful for the experience,” Argo Tuulik, the last original game writer to leave ZA/UM, told me. “That being said, there are some concepts that are incompatible with the Elysian world-building I’ve wanted to explore for years, and now I’m glad I didn’t ...
When Disco Elysium came onto the scene in 2019 It completely messed up RPG storytellingand paves the way for new ways to captivate players and create worlds. Surely it was just the beginning of something new, bold and exciting. Instead, things became very chaotic very quickly. Now multiple teams of former employees are struggling to ...
A group of former members of the original development team for RPG darling Disco Elysium have today released their first new game under their new UK studio: XXX Nightshift. No, you won’t get déjà vu – it did happen twice in one day, and the news comes hot on the heels of the announcement of ...
