Not a surprising outcome considering how this game went down
Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted
https://www.ign.com/articles/daedalic-entertainment-gollum-layofs
https://www.ign.com/articles/daedalic-entertainment-gollum-layofs
Not a surprising outcome considering how this game went down
12 Comments
melonpunk@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
That's a shame. They've been around for a good while now and produced a good run of point and click style adventure games. They took the wrong path with Gollum though.
DmMacniel@feddit.de · 6 pts · 3y
The point and click games by Daedalic (
My Time at Portia, Memoria, Chains of Satinav) wer pretty great, yeah. What went wrong? :(melonpunk@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
They've had a rough run over the years with their previous majority holder running into financial issues and them getting sold to Nacon (Bigben Interactive) in 2022. I'm guessing there was a push internally to go big, and Gollum was the efforts of that. Also Nacon don't have a stellar record for doing well by developers, see: Frogwares and the Sherlock Holmes debacle.
OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
Daedalic didn't make Portia, was Pathea. I was surprised for a minute there. Loved that game and I knew Sandrock was in active EA for a while now. So, whew.
DmMacniel@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
Oh, I thought it was made by them, thanks for the correction.
OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Oh I definitely had to look it up lol
DmMacniel@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Apparently I was thinking about Deponia :D
qtie314@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 3y
So sad all the devs lost their jobs thanks to awful management decissions, it should be the higher ups stepping down
r_ffer23@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y
I get it, the game wasn't exactly a success. But isn't it a bit drastic to dismantle an entire division?
_waffle_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah, I think it’s a bit drastic too. If anything maybe the employees are being shuffled around to other dev studios?
Zebrazilla@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was fantastic and internally developed as I understand it. A real shame to see them go.
oldlamps@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y