ZA/UM Studio, company Disco -electricsIN Just announced a new game called Project (C4)This field is described as “RPG that defines the RPG genre”, and there is a teaser trailer, which is light on the gameplay, but heavy in alarming images.
Based on the trailer, we still do not know whether the game will pull out mechanics or visual effects from High -quality Disco -electricsThe press release of the press noted that people played like some kind of spy And he suggested that the game could, partly, occur in the human brain. Everything else is still shrouded in secrecy.
What is not shrouded in secrecy? Za/um was supposed to express this, Severly for several years With Disco -electrics It was released in 2019. He is suffered from dismissal, dismissal and departments of the main team that made Disco -electricsIncluding creator Robert Kurvitz, art director Aleksander Rostov and writer Helen Hinderper.
Back in 2022, the new executive luxury of the company fired all three, accusing them of unlawful actions and an attempt to steal intellectual property. It is worth noting that Kurvitz wrote a novel that Disco -electrics It is based, so we are not sure how someone can steal from his own book. The trials were filed Both Kurvitz and Rostov create your own companyField
The couple also refuted the accusations of theft of IP, writing in an open letter that they were dismissed when they tried to explore the suspicious activity related to the absorption of ZA/UM Estonian businessmen Ilmar Compus and Tynis Havel. These two were previously convicted of investment fraudThe couple was also accused of creating a hostile working environment, especially for women.
“I know at least five women who left or were forced to leave the studio since then Disco Launch, name Tõnis Haavel as the main factor. In creative leadership, zero women and very few women in leading positions in general ”, a former writer Find out Elsi said PC Gamer Among the recent dismissals of the entire companyField
A handful of other previous ZA/UM employees has recently formed a DEV called Longdue to create a new game that acts as a spiritual successor Disco -electricsThe field is said to be Kurvitz and Rostov's Company, Red Info with financial support for NeteaseBut no specific details were released.