unions

1378 readers

35 users here now

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

162

Former Disco Elysium devs attempt worker/player-owned company: "We realized we weren’t going to get anywhere by trying to bargain with the rich" (aftermath.site)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cyu to c/unions

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is artists... They don't generally have the wiggle room a developer has, a handful of devs can take a sabbatical for 6 months easy, but the artists that can pump out assets are either in crazy high demand or need another job to eat. Even supporting another person living in a studio and eating ramen drastically changes the situation

It's actually something I've put thought into recently, i have a friend very passionate about artist exploitation but I haven't figured out the structure to make it work. Artists aren't rare, but they're very in demand... There's got to be some way to help them bind together to take chances like this

[–] taladar 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think for the artwork it is also more important to have it all done by the same person, or have at least one person at the top who works on it full time. Programming is much easier to combine if each module is written by a different person as long as all are competent but art styles will clash unless all artists have some common artistic director or something similar.