@TheIronFox the change to gearbox tells me the closure of Volition was planned for a while
FPS: First Person Shooter documentary is out now for all the people that didn't back its crowdfunding campaign and are willing to pay full $25 price for a digital download. (So not for me at this moment.)
https://fpsdoc.com/
Official statement from Volition on the studio closure.
I think it's quite something to put this out precisely at Starfield review embargo - almost as if they know the world's gaming press will be busy.
Volition staff on Twitter are reporting that parent company Embracer has just closed the 30-year-old studio behind Saint's Row and Red Faction, with mass layoffs #VolitionJobs
We fought this, and we won!!
This is the result of a lot of work from privacy and security advocates, researchers, sex worker groups, and members of the lgbtq+ community who worked really, really hard to show the fundamental flaws in age verification.
Well done friends!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/roadmap-for-age-verification-online-pornographic-material-adult-websites-australia-law/
while itch creator day is over the sale on my games is still running over at https://eniko.itch.io/ until midnight pacific time thursday
our finances are going to be dangerously tight by the time we launch kitsune tails next year, so any support is very appreciated ๐
(image is gif of roguelike midboss showing ability animations)
made a slightly longer post on cohost about the tile layer movement scripting language DSL i just created for #KitsuneTails: https://cohost.org/eniko/post/2426033-made-a-scripting-lan
Let me show you 3 cool things I made for my custom #pico8 map editor! :D
1) Quick brushes
Copy anything from the map or the tiles and start using it