Risk of Rain developers join Valve, announced in a twitter post.
Risk of Rain developers join Valve, announced in a twitter post.
Today, we have an exciting update: Duncan and Paul, alongside many other talented members at Hopoo Games, will now be working on game development directly at @valvesoftware
Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.
So they sold thier game to one publisher, and then left to work for a different dev?
Pretty much. They said they were done with RoR (the sequel was already ambitious, they don’t want to be stuck with the series forever) and the payout for the IP was probably worth it to keep the studio financially flexible. Joining Valve is a no-brainer imo
Yeah, but it's not GoOd PR unless you reframe "hired by" as "joined"
I didn’t know Valve still made games 😄.
Err...
They seem to be getting back into it.
There was Alyx, at first. But today there's Deadlock, two more rumoured games, and now this?
Dont forget cs2, plus the short (but very fun) Aperture Desk Job)
Half Life VR game for Deckard most likely
the RoR devs are looking to apply their talents to...VR headsets?
Fuck, one of the best roguelikes destroyed
welp, glad I never bought Risk of Rain or Risk of Rain 2 then.
What in the fuck