> We asked how the studio culture changed at ZA/UM after the departure of most of the original writing team & the airing of the People Make Games documentary looking into the legal battle that ensued afterward. “It’s like transitioning from the Soviet Union to the fascist Russian Federation,” Tuulik said. “Wearing the dead cultural movement like a skin costume, roleplaying communism, lying for dollars and yen. PMG doc changed lots of things in the studio. Personal dynamics. None for the better.”
Complete and total vindication for Rostov, Hindpere and Kurvitz
@kate "The individuals of ZA/UM, the cultural movement, have left the corporate body behind like the King Cobra slithering out of its dead skin. Remember, we promised: Un jour je serai de retour près de toi.”
@kate ouch. impossible to ignore the parallels to Disco Elysium's characters growing up in the aftermath of the failed communist revolution
@kate fuck, they had something so unique that could have gone so far. I feel so bad for the original team
> Principal writer Dora Klindžić agreed to speak to us on the record as well. She joined ZA/UM in 2022, which she likened to “being born into Yugoslavia in the '90s: you've just missed the party and now all you get is the bloodshed.”
https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs-last-writer-speaks-out