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 ...
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 ...
Nearly five years since the game launched, Disco Elysium has left something of a rotten legacy. One of the most critically acclaimed games of the modern era, this groundbreaking RPG was instantly praised by critics and consumers alike for its deep RPG systems, exemplary writing, and its bleak , tragic storyline that was thoroughly and ...
Following the layoffs at ZA/UM earlier this year, some of the affected developers have provided some details about the Disco Elysium spinoff they were working on before being laid off and subsequently cancelled. Like all the Disco Elysium content we haven’t gotten since the original game was released, this game sounds pretty cool. If you ...
The last writer who worked on the original Disco Elysium and was fired from ZA/UM said he believed the company “will always be a one-game studio,” with the layoffs reportedly being made as part of the cancellation of expansion packs. For the competition. As explored in a documentary released by People Make Games last May, ...
