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[Captain Toad]

I don't care what platform, but we need a spiritual successor to Ori from these guys.

 

[Filben]

It's not news. It's from March!

Probably clicked on "similar threads" below another one and didn't check the date.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Probably clicked on "similar threads" below another one and didn't check the date.

Yeah, I've almost fallen into that trap myself once or twice. But I'm not here to show understanding or forgiveness. I'm here to claim like 3 cheap "likes"

 

[Ailynn]

It saddens me to hear when this happens to development teams. The Ori games are beautiful and amazingly crafted.

Treating employees with respect and care often creates a lifetime of loyalty. My time working with Forthright Entertainment was great- The CEO Ryan Waller is one of nicest guys I've ever known and always treats the development team like family. If it wasn't for my own decline with physical health and social anxiety, I would have loved working for him for the foreseeable future.

 

[Hohenheim]

Aren't these guys working on a action rpg? That should be very interesting! The Ori games are brilliant, but would like to see them take a different approach.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Aren't these guys working on a action rpg? That should be very interesting! The Ori games are brilliant, but would like to see them take a different approach.

Yes

They want to basically master the 3D Zelda / Action RPG space just like they mastered the 2D Metroidvania space

 

[lostinblue]

How is this news? Perfectionist founders are often abusive to their employees. Look at Steve Jobs. The original Macintosh team was famous for having t-shirts that said '90 hours a week'.

Hell, NASA was famous for causing engineers to drop dead at 45 from 'crunch'. They made it famous in the 1960s with the Apollo program. Any elite projects are going to have 'crunch'. Japan has a word for it - karoshi. "Death from overwork". That's what you sign up for to have 'Moon Studios' on your CV.

Note how all your examples are decades removed from present times.

Employers these days can't murder their employees like they used to. Well, in some countries they still can, and in all the others they can (if the employer doesn't quit first) it's just frowned upon and you'll get a bad rap if your company gets outed as being a company ran by Psychopaths/Sociopaths. That's basically all that happens.

But it's still better than nothing.

 

[Spukc]

*heavy breathing*

You should read his book i heard it was great

 

[YeulEmeralda]

I wouldn't be surprised if all the classic videogames were created with crunch.
And now we have indie games, they are very personal projects.

Don't get me wrong I have no fucking passion for my job and couldn't give a shit what happens to my employer. It's 9-5 lifestyle for me and you're paying me for every single minute. Send me a WhatsApp at night and I'm not responding. But with that attitude you rarely produce art.

 

[RoboFu]

How is this news? Perfectionist founders are often abusive to their employees. Look at Steve Jobs. The original Macintosh team was famous for having t-shirts that said '90 hours a week'.

Hell, NASA was famous for causing engineers to drop dead at 45 from 'crunch'. They made it famous in the 1960s with the Apollo program. Any elite projects are going to have 'crunch'. Japan has a word for it - karoshi. "Death from overwork". That's what you sign up for to have 'Moon Studios' on your CV.

 

[The_Mike]

Note how all your examples are decades removed from present times.

Employers these days can't murder their employees like they used to. Well, in some countries they still can, and in all the others they can (if the employer doesn't quit first) it's just frowned upon and you'll get a bad rap if your company gets outed as being a company ran by Psychopaths/Sociopaths. That's basically all that happens.

But it's still better than nothing.

I can being a modern example.

Naughty dog is known for it.

 

[Jaybe]

Sort of looks like Ori

 

[Topher]

I can being a modern example.

Naughty dog is known for it.

I wouldn't put too much stock into the source of that, J. Cooper. Cooper blatantly lied about a coworker having to be taken to the hospital due to working conditions. The coworker quickly refuted that claim and admonished him for using her personal health problem (it was a heavy period) to make false statements. Cooper deleted the tweets afterwards.

Not saying crunch doesn't happen at Naught Dog, but that is a suspect source.

 

[Tams]

How is this news? Perfectionist founders are often abusive to their employees. Look at Steve Jobs. The original Macintosh team was famous for having t-shirts that said '90 hours a week'.

Hell, NASA was famous for causing engineers to drop dead at 45 from 'crunch'. They made it famous in the 1960s with the Apollo program. Any elite projects are going to have 'crunch'. Japan has a word for it - karoshi. "Death from overwork". That's what you sign up for to have 'Moon Studios' on your CV.

How the hell does that make it acceptable?

And 'karoshi' makes the news every time it happens. And not in a good 'look how noble there were for working so hard' way, even in Japan. Thankfully, it's become a lot less common recently.

 

[AJUMP23]

They made good games.

 

[Captain Toad]

They made good games.

Yup. And that's all I care to know. I'm sorry someone had to work 6 days a week one time, but not grabbing my pitchfork.

You can leave a company at any time.

 

[lostinblue]

I can being a modern example.

Naughty dog is known for it.

And they get called out for it.

It's the #meoverworktoo movement, don't you like it?