Elixir Studios
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Conclusion: Wait until you're succesful first, before blowing all the investors' money on "concept" games.
A quality quote from ego central -
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What a colossal tool.
Yeah, what Grendel said. I had sympathies for them up to that Hassabis quote. He might be one of the smartest men in Britain today, but it feels as though his early success with Theme Park did his good judgement in. He suffered the malady of his mentor and just kept adding to his concepts instead of creating sensible packages, with the difference that Molyneux has the name to still move copies.
If you gamble high and lose - OK. But if you try to mask your own incompetence as "the unforgiving business climate", all you do is make yourself out as a crybaby.
Yes. With Elixir Studios gone, there are no more independent games developers.
EA Games do not fill the top 10 because EA is evil. EA Games fill the top 10 because they... *cue drumroll*
Have a sensible business plan
Elixir didn't and now all their money is gone. Boo hoo. That's what happens when you give money to hippies.
God knows I'm no friend of EA, but the agade of the dying small dev studio <a href='http://www.valvesoftware.com/' target='_blank'>is</a> <a href='http://www.bighugegames.com/index.html' target='_blank'>a</a> <a href='http://www.relic.com/' target='_blank'>tad</a> <a href='http://www.piranha-bytes.com/' target='_blank'>bit</a> <a href='http://www.remedygames.com/' target='_blank'>exaggerated.</a>
Did anyone else know Cadaver worked at Elixir on Evil Genius?
Really had no idea. Thank god they are apparently able to sustain their employees for long enough to get them into new jobs. Best of luck to Cad, but I doubt he'll have much problems landing on his feet with his CV.
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This isn't Risk, this is Reality. You don't win by conquering the world in this game. EA just invested into some very risky long-term contracts, I doubt they'll do very much acquisitioning in the next few years. And, besides, those studios I named off the top of my head <a href='http://www.obsidianent.com/' target='_blank'>were</a> <a href='http://www.bioware.com/' target='_blank'>not</a> <a href='http://www.idsoftware.com/' target='_blank'>the</a> <a href='http://www.bethsoft.com/' target='_blank'>only</a> <a href='http://www.firaxis.com/' target='_blank'>ones</a> <a href='http://www.massive.de/' target='_blank'>by</a> <a href='http://www.lionhead.com/' target='_blank'>far</a> <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Did anyone else know Cadaver worked at Elixir on Evil Genius?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, although i havent spoken to him in a while. This was his situation a couple of months ago.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm still in London, but currently looking for a new job, as I got
made redundant just before Xmas, along with about a third of Elixir.
Evil Genius didn't do very well commercially, so the company couldn't
afford to keep going with 2 concept teams and just one signed project.
Sucks, that's the industry I suppose. I'm currently looking for new
stuff through agencies - had an interview at Kuju Brighton last week
that seemed to go OK. Also doing a short single-player level set for
Valve as part of the application process there, but I'm not really
expecting anything to come from that, not least because my level
design is a bit rusty after a year without doing any mapping.
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