This video is a short documentary talking about how idTech developers and how they came together to make their own employee-owned indie studio. Good stuff!

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[–] 15 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

And now, free from corporate shackles they'll be free to make some actual interesting innovative games again. These innovative games will probably sell well, attracting attention of larger companies who will buy the new gaming studio. Said larger company will churn out generic sequels while slowly firing all the old talent. As the quality diminishes and the formulaic slop they're now making stops selling, the big company will fire everyone and close down the studio. Many of those fired devs will get together and form a new game studio and start publishing interesting games...

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Hopefully we can stop that cycle by skipping the "larger companies [...] will buy the new gaming studio" step. We just want to make games. We're not doing this to get rich.

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  • [–] 1 point 40 minutes ago

    You can't stop the cycle. You merely get to watch it being repeated over and over again if you live long enough.

    You take the gems that are produced in the first half of the cycle, then move on.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    it would be such a wasted opportunity for them to jump straight into bed with some other cunt capitalist whos just gonna pull the same shit, rather than forming a worker cooperative and ensuring if they do well theyll be rewarded with money and security.

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