{"id":406385,"date":"2017-09-25T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/24\/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-creator-goes-dark\/21|23221338"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T03:09:00","slug":"everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-creator-goes-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-creator-goes-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture’ creator goes ‘dark’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinchbeck makes no bones about Chinese Room’s bottom line: there were “financial pressures” that included keeping the full team running. Add Pinchbeck’s own health concerns and the usual stress of wrapping development on a game (many studios are all too familiar with crunch time<\/a>), and it was clear that it was time to have a “good think about the future.”<\/p>\n

Right now, just three people are working on upcoming titles like The 13th Interior<\/em> and Little Orpheus<\/em>. It’s not certain exactly how the move will delay those projects, but it’s reasonable to say they won’t be ready all that soon.<\/p>\n

The news is unfortunate, but it’s not entirely unexpected. While “walking simulator” titles like Rapture<\/em> receive heaps of critical praise for their storytelling and rejection of video game tropes (they’re more like dramas with a dash of non-linear narrative), they’re seldom commercial successes. A game like Firewatch<\/em><\/a> is more the exception than the rule, and it’s still not going to be a blockbuster hit the way Call of Duty<\/em> might be. Like it or not, these teams are bound to face uncertain futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinchbeck makes no bones about Chinese Room’s bottom line: there were “financial pressures” that included keeping the full team running. Add Pinchbeck’s own health concerns and the usual stress of wrapping development on a game (many studios are all too familiar with crunch time), and it was clear that it was time to have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-406385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}