Aren't these the people that made a weird furry VN with dinosaurs that had something to do with Harry Potter rule34 fanfic featuring underage characters?

"noting that the studio is still working toward legally becoming a co-op."

Its so fuckin cringe how they are still messing around and havent gone coop yet. Its really not that hard. It's so fishy. Going around saying you are a coop when you aren't is unethical.

The whole thing belongs to the founders 100% and the coop stuff is functionally theatre as far as anyone is concerned. They own all the IP. None of the workers have any of the legal privileges afforded to them by a worker cooperative, only what the founders decided is "cooperative bahaviour".

I've known these guys since college and when they founded the place. At this point, I think they are posers.

I'm sorry to the people who lost their jobs and that your bosses outsourced it to your peers to fabricate consent.

Eventfully layoffs are a necessity. Hopefully the studio and its workers have the good sense to forbid any bonuses in the near future. Nothing pisses me off as much as layoffs followed by buybacks, campaign contributions, and massive bonuses.

Everyone at the studio, which was roughly 30 people prior to the cuts, makes the same amount of money, $90K CAD ($63K USD)

Game industry is really on the edge.

Interesting. That's the difference between the cooperative movement and the syndicalist; democratic decision at the industrial level allow some leverage against capitalists and not self-exploitation

This studio sounds super awesome.

We need more co-ops and syndicates. Suits get money blown up their ass all the times while the workers get crumbs. Money distribution is always crap in companies that aren't worker run.

It's a pity they had to fire some people, but I'd they can survive and maybe make a good game, that'd be preferable. The NDP should focus on funding these kinds of companies instead of trying to buy bioware back from the Saudis with taxpayer money.

Funders wanting a polished vertical slice, or a year of full-time work from the whole team, while Young Suns was still in production is the brutal bit. A 30 person studio can't build two games at once, and Dabbous says they've never had a hit to pay for it