#Za/Um

[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

[yellow-yarrow]

https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs-last-writer-speaks-out

Last Disco Elysium writer laid off by ZA/UM speaks out

“The fish starts rotting from the head,” says Argo Tuulik

“The mask has slipped from the face of capital. What remains at ZA/UM is a cold, careless company where managers wage war against their own creatives, where artistry is second to property, and where corporate strategy is formed by an arrogant disdain for their own audience.”

[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

[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

[kapkant7]

Harry is probably the closest we've ever come to playable Dril in a video game

[saorsay]

"Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart."🪩🫁

[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."

[fairyouth]

Harry failed the suggestion check.

[yellow-yarrow]

https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs

Sources: Disco Elysium dev ZA/UM to lay off around a quarter of its staff, cancels new game

One source blamed mismanagement for the current situation, claiming that management was “always acting like there was an enemy, be it the old Disco team, the press, or even people working there” and consequently failed to value its existing talent, allegedly preferring to hire fresh blood from outside rather than promoting employees from within the company. They also said “I don’t think women were treated the same and that their work wasn’t as valued.”

[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

[vidding-is-my-passion]

Kim truly trusts you

[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!"