Hopetown’s latest ex-Disco Elysium recruit reveals he’s “had to leave” another of the kinda Disco Elysium successor studios, but says it’s on “friendly terms”

Earlier today, around the same time Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM announced its next game, one of the many would-be Disco spiritual successors in the works – Longdue – revealed the first teaser for its game and news of some new team members.

The studio let us all know that Disco narrator Lenval Brown and editor Martin Luiga, the latter of whom was involved in founding the now defuct “ZA/UM Cultural Association” art collective (not be confused with the ZA/UM studio itself), had come on board to work on its psychological RPG, Hopetown. As it turns out, to take this gig, Luiga’s actually left another of the many kind of Disco Elysium successor studios out there.

“It has come to pass that I have had to leave Red Info,” Luiga tweeted not long after being announced as working with Longdue, “The separation was conducted under friendly terms and I have only good words to say about the work that we did together; I wish them all the best.”

If you’re out of the loop, Red Info Ltd is the studio founded by key Disco Elysium developers Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov after the pair “involuntarily” left ZA/UM, with PC Gamer having reported that it was set up with backing from Chinese publisher NetEase.

Of the litany of sort of Disco successor studios which all seem to have interacted with each other in weird ways – Longdue, Dark Math Games and Summer Eternal are the others – Red Info is the one we’ve heard the least from in terms of actual game or mission statement reveals, with that and Kurvitz’s involvement arguably giving it a bit of an air of mystery.

“I am pleased to share my experiences with Longdue to help them craft the narrative and systems for Hopetown, playing to the strengths that the narrative RPG genre has achieved thus far and attempting to innovate upon them to tell a rich story based in equal parts on what has been, what is and what could be,” Luiga said in the announcement of his having joined the Longdue team earlier today, “I am confident that the team can deliver a worthy addition to the canon of Western RPGs.”

VG247 has reached out to Longdue for comment on this story.

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