Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted
Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted
Daedalic Entertainment, the developer behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum announced that it was shutting down its internal game development division, shifting focus to publishing, marketing and sales.
Not a surprising outcome considering how this game went down
That's a shame. They've been around for a good while now and produced a good run of point and click style adventure games. They took the wrong path with Gollum though.
The point and click games by Daedalic (
My Time at Portia, Memoria, Chains of Satinav) wer pretty great, yeah. What went wrong? :(They've had a rough run over the years with their previous majority holder running into financial issues and them getting sold to Nacon (Bigben Interactive) in 2022. I'm guessing there was a push internally to go big, and Gollum was the efforts of that. Also Nacon don't have a stellar record for doing well by developers, see: Frogwares and the Sherlock Holmes debacle.
So sad all the devs lost their jobs thanks to awful management decissions, it should be the higher ups stepping down
I get it, the game wasn't exactly a success. But isn't it a bit drastic to dismantle an entire division?
Yeah, I think it’s a bit drastic too. If anything maybe the employees are being shuffled around to other dev studios?
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was fantastic and internally developed as I understand it. A real shame to see them go.