![]() ![]() Currently, WE OWN THE IP - 100% of it, we own - Little Orbit claims rights to some of the assets they have paid for to be put into the game, there is an agreement where both parties get to use those assets if the other fails - however, Little Orbit breached that agreement - so we are not sure if that allows us to publish - that is the crux of the matter - We would love to publish in Early Access finish polishing the game and then have Interplay take over as publisher - and we do the live team updates. One more thing - Interplay is currently trying to stitch together a deal - we want that to happen. The change in direction was typical of them, and they have a history of pulling stunts late to try to stiff devs DESCENT UNDERGROUND DOWNLOAD FULLHonestly this is it for me in games - we will get this out, and I am done with game dev - just tired of all the bullshit from publishers, the lying and lack of integrity from many in the space, and also from the criticism from folks who really don't understand how things work - just so much wrong with the industry I love - I mean people calling devs crooks - when it might simply be a failure of publishers - most devs are broke, I personally have spent my life savings on this project - and will not get that back if it doesn't come out - but of course folks say I took money and ran, even though we actually released in early access 7 months after KStarter and a portion of the game was up for 3+ years - so obviously we were not in the Bahamas drinking Mai - Tais.oh, one more thing, Little Orbit wanting to go full Arcade in January, was typical, they were getting builds for months and then decided to PIVOT based upon the lack of sales for Overload - and that the name Descent did not mean anything in the industry anymore and that they would still need to spend on Marketing. I can’t promise lots of updates this is now with the lawyers I wish it weren’t, but we honored the contract. Folks that say we scammed are WAY off base, we worked for nothing, this is a publisher holding it hostage trying to get the rights from us, which we have even offered but not for free. We are all committed to the project but we are not able to do things on our own without the authority to do so. Our hands are tied, I even had to take a job outside games to survive. Our team worked for months on little to no pay, and had changes demanded late which kept delaying the game. It is literally done, just needs a good open beta period to iron out confit issues and gameplay imbalance, but we can’t self publish without getting the rights to do it, and so far LO is not letting us seek another pub or publish ourselves, so we are in talks with nothing agreed to yet. Essentially our contract got breached, and now we are tryin to unwind it and get the game to market. There is a lot going on behind the scenes. ![]()
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