#ZA/UM

[thelazydoodle]

[zony66]

sorry if we're mutuals and you've already seen me post this elsewhere but I know there are Tumblr folks that would appreciate this crossover

[pizzamafiaart]

Crossover project for my digital illustration class. Had to choose two pieces of media and make a crossover of some kind using them. I chose Slay the Princess and Disco Elysium because of their similar 'multiple voices in your head' mechanic

[mrtequilasunset]

We all know what the real Disco Elysium successor is gonna be

[nablastria]

「Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm *in* it.」

[keyboard-worrier]

Summer Eternal, the new studio/art collective being started by former ZA/UM collaborators including Argo Tuulik and Olga Moskvina who were writers on Disco Elysium, Lenval Brown who was the voice of the narrator, and a number of other writers, designers, and artists.

It looks like it will be structured with 50%+1 of shares held by the full-time creative team, 25% for other workers, 20% for investors, and 5% for a non-profit with players as members. Hopefully this kind of structure can avoid the catastrophe of ZA/UM.

[papasmoke]

the conmen won, rip disco

[tomurakii]

Argo Tuulik, Disco Elysium writer currently employed at Summer Eternal, is going into debt over a legal battle against ZA/UM and Longdue techbro investors who want to wring every bit of money they can out of the hard work of creatives like Argo and Dora.

Summer Eternal is a workers-owned game development studio home to writers and designers from one of the greatest games of all time. Any amount donated to Argo's gofundme helps get them back on track to creating art.

[yellow-yarrow]

Riaz Moola, the founder of CoGrammar and Longdue which claims to be making a "successor to Disco Elysium" is so cartoonishly evil, like I can't believe this shit:

- he is currently legally preventing Argo Tuulik from working at Summer Eternal and in the industry until April 2025

- he wanted to be a shareholder of Summer Eternal and was asking SE to promote Longdue and not marked themselves or accept any crowdfunding until April 2025

- he is also teaming up with za/um, and taking Tuulik to court which is insanely expensive, which is why Argo is close to bankruptcy now, and had to set up a GoFundMe

- said GFM was taken down after a day and it's very likely that Moola did this because

- on the reddit post about this GFM Moola has made a comment that has like 300 upvotes, and some negative comments directed at him have a lot of downvotes, which is super suspicious considering other comments don't have even half as much engagement there, (and I think some comments even got deleted somehow!) &

- he is the CEO of Hyperiondev, which infamous for deleteting negative reviews about it's shit quality coding bootcamp

- Moolah's response to Argo was that "come on I'm just a small business owner and you were friendly with me in an email some months ago" (this dude is the CEO of multiple companies and who sues their friend into bankruptcy??)

- Argo Tuulik has said that he is doubtful that anyone from the old disco team is working at Longdue, and Moola could be using the fact that Tuulik was doing something for a very short time at CoGrammar to say that 'former de developers are at Longdue'

In conclusion,

Fuck Riaz Moola and what Longdue is making has nothing to do with disco elysium

[asparkoflight]

Elysium.

[crustaceousfaggot]

I think it's so funny that people are behaving as though all the Disco Elysium spiritual successors are effectively equivalent.

Cause Dark Math's press releases are all along the lines of "We're making a super cool edgy detective RPG. It's gonna be just like Disco Elysium, except with less words and more bullets, because who likes reading, am I right? Anyways, it's gonna be sooo cool and way more fun than Disco Elysium 😎"

And Longdue has said "uhhh yeah we're not really ready to talk about specifics yet. There's probably gonna be some weird psychological dream stuff going on. Idk. It's gonna be fun trust us"

Meanwhile Summer Eternal has hardly done any interviews, and if you read their manifesto and blog entries they're all like "Capitalism and insatiable corporate greed have irrevocably damaged the infant medium of video games. Workers in our field are treated as commodities at best and entirely disposable at worst. We intend to do everything in our power to create an uncompromised, complete, and unapologetic work of art, or we will do down trying. This isn't about making the next Elysium, this is about making something entirely new and revolutionary."

[vidding-is-my-passion]

Kim truly trusts you

[fairyouth]

Harry failed the suggestion check.

[estherax]

ZA/UM LIED ABOUT LEGAL BATTLE BEING RESOLVED????

i made a post like 3 hours ago about 3 cases against za/um being dropped and hidden behind news about collage update

And now Kurvitz and Taal (Rostov's alias) sent a statement to GamesIndustry.biz saying they didn't withdraw their claims for lack of evidence. They state their dismissal is a "part of a larger campaign" against them and they "will pursue legal options accordingly."

They added that "paying back stolen money, however, does not undo the crime; here, it does not undo the majority that Kompus and Haavel have illegally gained in ZA/UM."

They also stated that they will not be silenced in this ongoing legal dispute

If you are interested, i made a full timeline post about the entire situation from the beginning

[cusn0]

me and who

[nablastria]

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "You told us to fuck off. You said we're *cramping your style*. You're *Detective God*. Fuck everything. All will burn. Detect or die!"