Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns (opens in new tab)

(bloomberg.com)

80 pointstmendez1y ago18 comments

18 comments

LorenDB1y ago

https://archive.ph/CZ7AE

neilv1y ago

I liked the two of their games that I've played so far (Stray, and What Remains of Edith Finch).

Hopefully, whatever creative magic made these, will make more, and they'll be happy doing it.

BeetleB1y ago

What Remains of Edith Finch is the most powerful interactive fiction I have encountered - and it beats all others by a huge margin.

It's not even a game, really. But extremely powerful.

Annapurna didn't make it, BTW. They were the publisher.

oliwarner1y ago

They're just the publisher. "Their games" were conceived and developed by other companies.

teroshan1y ago

True, but as a publisher they had a really good eye for funding interesting games. It's a real loss for me, as I tend to rely on publishers to curate my games for me.

I wanted to give a selection of their games, but it's so long that I can just link the Wikipedia page instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Interactive#Games_pu...

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master_crab1y ago

Clan Ellison strikes again!

yieldcrv1y ago

The Return to Island mandate must not have been a hit

cryptonector1y ago

Crazy that this was flagged.

kedislav1y ago

Woah, and even I was excited for their TBA Blade Runner game [1]. Guessing that's not going to happen.

[1] https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/blade-runner-2033-...

hashtag-til1y ago

https://archive.is/CZ7AE

hashtag-til1y ago

This simply disappeared from the front page - why?

Exoristos1y ago

Because too many stories like this and tech employees might get Ideas.

hashtag-til1y ago

That’s what I thought.

It is [flagged] now, wtf.

yieldcrv1y ago

haha collective action is interesting, but I dont see how a union would help with an acquisition or merger walking away

neilv1y ago

Dunno, but it currently doesn't have a lot of votes, and only 1-2 substantive comments.

> 133. Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns (bloomberg.com) 22 points by tmendez 56 minutes ago | unvote | flag | hide | 6 comments

mandmandam1y ago

25 points in under an hour, and it's at #116 and falling; surrounded by 2 day old posts.

Pretty weird.

Edit: #230 now (90 mins in), with 36 points, next to 3 day old posts. Sus af.

tmendezOP1y ago

Maybe because my account is new? Maybe because it's a Bloomberg shared article (By Jason Schreier)? Not sure, just grasping at straws.

Edit: I'm guessing I'm right. Looks like Hackernews stripped the share key in the URL sometime after this was posted... the publicly posted one... from Jason himself, so now the article is paywalled.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

18 comments

LorenDB1y ago

https://archive.ph/CZ7AE

neilv1y ago

I liked the two of their games that I've played so far (Stray, and What Remains of Edith Finch).

Hopefully, whatever creative magic made these, will make more, and they'll be happy doing it.

BeetleB1y ago

What Remains of Edith Finch is the most powerful interactive fiction I have encountered - and it beats all others by a huge margin.

It's not even a game, really. But extremely powerful.

Annapurna didn't make it, BTW. They were the publisher.

oliwarner1y ago

They're just the publisher. "Their games" were conceived and developed by other companies.

teroshan1y ago

True, but as a publisher they had a really good eye for funding interesting games. It's a real loss for me, as I tend to rely on publishers to curate my games for me.

I wanted to give a selection of their games, but it's so long that I can just link the Wikipedia page instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Interactive#Games_pu...

1 more reply

master_crab1y ago

Clan Ellison strikes again!

yieldcrv1y ago

The Return to Island mandate must not have been a hit

cryptonector1y ago

Crazy that this was flagged.

kedislav1y ago

Woah, and even I was excited for their TBA Blade Runner game [1]. Guessing that's not going to happen.

[1] https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/blade-runner-2033-...

hashtag-til1y ago

https://archive.is/CZ7AE

hashtag-til1y ago

This simply disappeared from the front page - why?

Exoristos1y ago

Because too many stories like this and tech employees might get Ideas.

hashtag-til1y ago

That’s what I thought.

It is [flagged] now, wtf.

yieldcrv1y ago

haha collective action is interesting, but I dont see how a union would help with an acquisition or merger walking away

neilv1y ago

Dunno, but it currently doesn't have a lot of votes, and only 1-2 substantive comments.

> 133. Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns (bloomberg.com) 22 points by tmendez 56 minutes ago | unvote | flag | hide | 6 comments

mandmandam1y ago

25 points in under an hour, and it's at #116 and falling; surrounded by 2 day old posts.

Pretty weird.

Edit: #230 now (90 mins in), with 36 points, next to 3 day old posts. Sus af.

tmendezOP1y ago

Maybe because my account is new? Maybe because it's a Bloomberg shared article (By Jason Schreier)? Not sure, just grasping at straws.

Edit: I'm guessing I'm right. Looks like Hackernews stripped the share key in the URL sometime after this was posted... the publicly posted one... from Jason himself, so now the article is paywalled.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse