Ah, this makes for sore studying. Spanish builders Tequila Works have cancelled a sport and made a “small” variety of layoffs within the face of monetary difficulties.
“With deep remorse, we should inform of the choice to cancel an unannounced sport,” reads a submit from Tequila on LinkedIn. “This powerful resolution means we will likely be restructuring the studio to focus on the event of just one sport. These modifications will have an effect to a small variety of roles on the studio.
“That is an extremely troublesome time, and our focus is to offer the assist and steerage to these affected,” it goes on.
Tequila stay finest recognized for Rime, a first-class graduate of the Ico-meets-Zelda faculty of babies exploring emotive fantasy worlds which might be in all probability metaphors for one thing, however they’re additionally co-developers and publishers of The Horny Brutale, considered one of my private favorite time-rewindy puzzlers. Their final sport was a League Of Legends spin-off, Track Of Nunu. Katharine (RPS in peace) referred to as it “a heartfelt, winsome platformer that does not require any information of League Of Legends to get pleasure from”. Earlier than that they made Gylt, which Alice B (RPS in peace) was charmed by, calling it Alan Wake for teenagers and a pleasant intro to the nuances of economic sport design at giant. Right here’s an extended chunk:
In order for you your youngster to study you could transfer or climb yellow issues in video games, that enemies typically have glowing weak spots, you could return to beforehand locked off areas to seek out issues, that it’s best to grid search video games to seek out the three MacGuffins you want, that it is typically economical to run previous enemies to get to the following space, and that being a bystander to bullying in case you’re not collaborating your self remains to be actually dangerous, then gosh, Gylt will do all of that in a single.
Suffice it to say that Tequila Works are good folks with many strings to their bow. I hope issues choose up from right here. Better of luck to the individuals who’ve misplaced their jobs.
