Psychonauts, Keeper, and Kiln developer Double Tremendous, like South Of Midnight studio Compulsion, is now formally free and away from Microsoft. For those who purchase its video games, you’re supporting an indie that frankly, nicely, wants it, versus a genocide-abetting mega corporation. Nevertheless it’s not all excellent news: Double Tremendous’s union push, which we first reported on back in May, is for the second no extra.
Double Tremendous director of promoting and communications James Spafford confirmed Double Tremendous’s independence to Aftermath.
“I can affirm that we’re formally unbiased, the deal is closed, and shopping for our video games now straight helps us simply the identical as Compulsion,” he mentioned.
As well as, Double Tremendous founder Tim Schafer went on Kinda Funny to expose extra about plans for the long run, asserting that the studio is bringing again its inner sport jam, Amnesia Fortnight, with a Kickstarter.
“We will do a Sport Jam, stay on the web, during which our backers will get to decide on which of our myriad of concepts get made into 4 new prototypes—and which of these last 4 will turn out to be an actual (small) sport,” reads the Kickstarter web page. “Chances are you’ll even snag some candy merchables and rarities alongside the way in which.”
The Kickstarter, which will even embody a documentary of your complete course of by 2 Participant Productions, goes stay on August 31.
As for the Double Tremendous employees’ union, the unique petition was filed with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board in early Could. On the time, it lined all common full-time and part-time workers—a complete of 42. At present, nonetheless, CWA, the union that has helped hundreds of Microsoft sport employees arrange, knowledgeable Aftermath that employees withdrew their petition only a couple weeks after submitting it (and nicely earlier than layoffs or Double Tremendous regaining its independence). The union didn’t elaborate as to why.
“Past that, we have no updates,” mentioned a CWA spokesperson.
Aftermath requested Double Tremendous for extra particulars however didn’t obtain a reply as of this publishing.
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“I can confirm we have regained ownership of our IP, and that the publishing rights are transferring back to Compulsion”
