Turmoil and Layoffs at Damnation Developer
The development team behind the third-person shooter Codemasters [http://www.damnationthegame.com/].
Court documents uncovered by Point of View Inc. [http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59355], which had been contracted by Blue Omega in 2007 to work on the game, to continue development. Blue Omega sought damages of at least $75,000 from Point of View but voluntarily dismissed the case five days later.
The second suit was filed in February, claiming that another contracted developer, Velvetelvis, produced "unacceptable," "unfinished" and "untimely" work which caused Blue Omega to miss deadlines with Codemasters. That suit, which is still pending, also seeks minimum damages of $75,000.
Meanwhile, the final nail in the Damnation/Blue Omega coffin came on June 23. "The entire Blue Omega team was laid off today," former programmer Geoff Rowland wrote on Twitter. [http://twitter.com/gothaggis]
This may help explain why Damnation, which began life as a second-place entry in rough draft than an actual game [http://www.epicgames.com/], describing it as "the ashy remnants of a spark that ignited in 2004."
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The development team behind the third-person shooter Codemasters [http://www.damnationthegame.com/].
Court documents uncovered by Point of View Inc. [http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59355], which had been contracted by Blue Omega in 2007 to work on the game, to continue development. Blue Omega sought damages of at least $75,000 from Point of View but voluntarily dismissed the case five days later.
The second suit was filed in February, claiming that another contracted developer, Velvetelvis, produced "unacceptable," "unfinished" and "untimely" work which caused Blue Omega to miss deadlines with Codemasters. That suit, which is still pending, also seeks minimum damages of $75,000.
Meanwhile, the final nail in the Damnation/Blue Omega coffin came on June 23. "The entire Blue Omega team was laid off today," former programmer Geoff Rowland wrote on Twitter. [http://twitter.com/gothaggis]
This may help explain why Damnation, which began life as a second-place entry in rough draft than an actual game [http://www.epicgames.com/], describing it as "the ashy remnants of a spark that ignited in 2004."
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