MLMarkland
Arcane
It's a good article and I enjoyed speaking with Adi Robertson.
The alleged quotes from some alleged anonymous game developers at a game studio ten years ago are complete fabricrations. I think normally people telling the truth don't feel the need to be anonymous about something that happened when George W. Bush was President and/or Obama was in his first year in office.
Larry Liberty mortgaged his house and I put in $100,000 to cover children's health insurance, people's mortgages, entire payrolls when Atari and Emergent went bankrupt. No one was unpaid. Everyone got every single dollar. Some of the people with an axe to grind were terminated for cause, but that happens at every company.
Anyone claiming otherwise is lying.
And surely they would have asked the Department of Labor for the alleged unpaid wages. It's very easy to get back compensation in California through an administrative hearing. No such hearings for Killspace ever took place because no one was unpaid because of Larry and I putting in money when we knew the company was already dead because it was the right thing to do. To take care of our people.
And unlike dozens or maybe hundreds of game companies from 2008-2012, Killspace never went bankrupt. Because Larry and I are good at our job.
American Zoetrope trusts us here nearly a decade later because we did the right things during the great recession. And we do the right things on a dozen video games since.
Including ensuring the delivery of games like Fallout: New Vegas and Wasteland 2.
Upwards of 80% of the real developers at Killspace have worked with Larry or I at some point in the past decade. We've gotten many of them jobs over the years. We launched many junior developers careers at Killspace. Some Killspace developers are back on the Apocalypse Now team.
But you can't make everybody happy in business, ever.
And if you try to you're living wrong.
But the article is fun fiction for sure and good reading.
And all press is good press.
Back to the main event.
https://apocalypsenow.com/pledge