The former Disco Elysium devs of Summer Eternal announce their new game "Red Rooster"... in the form of a book

Summer Eternal, 1 of the infinite fig of Disco Elysium spiritual successor studios that cropped up past year, person been mostly quiescent connected immoderate it is they've been cooking up since forming. They announced their beingness with an evocative governmental manifesto, and contiguous they revealed what's next. No, it's not a video game, but thing a batch much physical, tangible, and interestingly aged fashioned: a book.

Quite simply titled Summer Eternal Anthology, it's really measurement 1 of that planned anthology, which does tally connected the presumption that they negociate to merchandise different one. A property merchandise from Summer Eternal describes it arsenic "part taste journal, portion expedition log, portion improvement diary," and, astir unusually of all, "part carnal crippled announcement."

With the net being the de facto spot you denote a videogame these days, Summer Eternal are surely doing thing antithetic here, much akin to mag exclusives from days of yore. It's a bold move, and 1 they're hoping volition enactment them financially, for this publication is some an announcement teaser and a root of income successful itself. There'll seemingly beryllium info connected gameplay systems, the game's world, and however it each looks. Oh, and the crippled has a codename too, "Red Rooster."

Aside from that, you'll besides find a fewer non-fiction essays, interviews, governmental thinkpieces related to the games industry, and a recap of what Summer Eternal person gone done to found a worker-owned co-op. You'll person to hold a portion for it though, arsenic it's planned for outpouring 2026 earliest, summertime 2026 latest.

In lawsuit you request a spot of a refresher connected Summer Eternal arsenic a workplace compared to the different teams that boast of having erstwhile Disco devs connected the books, this is the 1 co-founded by Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, some erstwhile writers astatine ZA/UM. You whitethorn retrieve that Tuulik and Klindžić person had immoderate ineligible back-and-forth with Riaz Moola, laminitis and proprietor of Longdue, a antithetic expected Disco successor.

Moola alleges that the brace violated a non-compete clause aft they were antecedently employed by him, whereas Tuulik and Klindžić assertion that this peculiar clause covered a abstracted industry. People Make Games explored immoderate of this peculiar ineligible conflict successful a follow-up to their archetypal Disco Elysium/ ZA/UM documentary from 2023, if you privation a spot much depth.