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Please tell me that's their official twitter!
on a quick glance, it would seem it is, unless its some highly dedicated fan that really likes posing as the official twitter of a company that has existed for double digit hours and constantly shares the official links to their site, which, yknow, could be entirely possible!
They're definitely doing a bit.
I hope so. It'd be very disapointing if they were at odds and didn't at least somewhat support each other's efforts. A fire divided, provided it has fuel, does not diminish but rather brings life and warmth to more and more people.
Anyone else not want a DE sequel? Everything being a franchise is something we always complain about with movies, don't see how that doesn't apply here. They nailed it, it's good. Make similar stuff but some stuff should be a one off
A tabletop sourcebook seems like a neat idea instead tbh.
I'm not against the world being explored in different mediums at all. There was books first anyway, a tabletop seems pretty fitting.
The setting was originally for an TRPG they were playing togheter.
Absolutely not, it's very explicitly designed to be a prototype for a larger game and a lot of the plot is entirely set up for that game.
It can't even be a one-off, there was already a novel in the setting before the game was made.
I've clarified elsewhere but I mean as a video game and I'm happy to see the setting used but I don't wanna see Harry in anything else, much like the reast of the cast. And how is it explicitly a prototype for a different game?
The original pitch for Disco Elysium, for Harry, for Martinaise, its people and the humiliated city-state of Revachol, was as a ''match-book world'', a short(lol) detective game, meant to be a small window at more to come, they had built Disco Elysium as an introduction to its massive universe, for future games and works to come.
It's abundantly clear that that's not happening anymore, but Elysium was always meant to become a franchise of some sort.
edit: i can't seem to find it right now but if i recall correctly, Kurvitz already had an idea for a DE sequel, it was going to be about a pregnant woman, but i don't remember the details.
Well I'm glad it didn't become a franchise.
Harry or Kim were never going to show up again anyways, if that was your concern 
I doubt they were never going to show up, the RCM was going to play a major role, they just wouldn't be the protagonists.
I wouldn't want a direct sequel with Harry and Kim. Not even a prequel. I kind of thought the fetus and pregnant mom version of DE was intriguing though
Oh god no. I'd be fine with something in the same setting but is prefer nonshared characters
We aren't getting a sequel from any of these studios.
Until one gets desperate
none of them can, kinetically or psychically, because the IP is stuck in limbo. ZA/UM is the only one that could, technically, but they're too busy imploding while they strip the copper pipes from the walls
I might have if it was by ZA/UM as a whole, but the layoffs and split mean any attempt at a direct sequel is going to go horrible.
I can think of no more fitting a fate for a game made by Marxists than having various spliter factions emerge after the studio's death, each claiming to be the true heir to its lost legacy.
Fifth ZA/UM (posadist)
This is the 12th type of ZA/UM
Y'all be cautious about XXX Nightshift, the current director is Heiti Kender, Kaur Kender's brother (kaur kender himself used to be the director until he resigned last year), he was involved in the deeply shady shareholder-scheme fraud that stole the studio, the IP and got the original devs fired
Goes to Gamejolt/Itch dot Io and creates a ZA/UM (REAL!) account :troll:
TBH if all of em can make a decent spiritual successor to Disco Elyisum I'll be happy. Even if only like 3/5 manage. And I think we have good odds that at least ONE out of five will scratch the same DE itch
which studio did the writer(s?) go with?
the core team? none, Kurvitz and Rostov, inseparable bunch, have founded their own company, ''Red Info'' with backing from NetEase, yet to this day have released absolutely no further information; zero, nada, zilch.
however, there were more people involved in the making of Disco Elysium other than them, Argo Tuulik, another estonian artists to have worked on DE, has grabbed as many of these other former devs, and started a new studio, SUMMER ETERNAL, the most promising of the bunch solely because Tuulik has a very noticeable passion about making games as art (that and also the fact that they are the only studio that can reasonably claim being the ''successor'' to ZA/UM due to sheer volume of ex-DE devs they have) and their manifesto doesn't sound like some sad corporate piece trying to sound * hip * and * cool * and ''disco''
Hey so I’m thinking of starting a gaming company
Anti-materialist take. This is obviously a Dragon Break, not a Sino-Soviet Split.