Alice: Asylum officially canceled, American McGee announces retirement from game development

[invalidlain]

I feel bad for the guy, really. I can't imagine putting like a decade into a game's development only to be told "No."

  On 4/9/2023 at 5:48 PM, VanaheimRanger said:

His company makes mental illness themed plush animals and raises money for mental illness awareness organizations. It's actually pretty cool and I wish him the best with it.

 

Editing to add link to his storefront if anyone is interested:

https://mysterious.americanmcgee.com/

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I actually have one of these! They're really nice quality. The specific one I have is the transgender bunny.

[_bruce_]

  On 4/9/2023 at 2:13 PM, Rudolph said:

Maybe John Romero could get in touch with him for SIGIL II! :P

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A bit doubtful that "Alfonso" would be rubbing shoulders with him again.

But it would be cool to see if McGee still delivers as he was one of the few really talented mappers.

[Boomslang]

Fuckin hate EA, damn. i love the Alice games. they got his IP in a chokehold

[heliumlamb]

Bad Day EA

[Devalaous]

  On 4/10/2023 at 4:48 AM, invalidlain said:

I feel bad for the guy, really. I can't imagine putting like a decade into a game's development only to be told "No."

I actually have one of these! They're really nice quality. The specific one I have is the transgender bunny.

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Not only is it a no, but they dont want to do anything with the IP, but also dont want anyone ELSE doing anything with it. So Alice is just going to rot forever, the classic corporation problem. I *MUST* OWN IT, BUT NEVER USE IT!

 

I actually got into a heated debate over stupid shit like this when I worked on Terraria, one of the other companies my employer partnered with had a dude with that same view.

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

  On 4/14/2023 at 11:54 PM, Devalaous said:

 

Not only is it a no, but they dont want to do anything with the IP, but also dont want anyone ELSE doing anything with it. So Alice is just going to rot forever, the classic corporation problem. I *MUST* OWN IT, BUT NEVER USE IT!

 

I actually got into a heated debate over stupid shit like this when I worked on Terraria, one of the other companies my employer partnered with had a dude with that same view.

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I'll never understand this idiotic corporate mindset. Why do companies like EA think this way? It doesn't make any sense, especialy if you have devs that are willing to invest most of their resourcess into the project, which only leaves you with marketing.

 

Also, you worked on Terraria?

[Devalaous]

I can only really speak for that one guy, but his general excuse was to avoid any *possible, conceivable* threat over this one official calendar where the artist retained the rights to his OC that he drew on several pages, he insisted that the only solution was to buy it all outright and own it then stuff it in the vault, just in case, 'its easier that way'. It was kind of a shock to me, as his public face on the forums was the nicest caring developer you'll ever meet, but it was all just a PR stunt; behind the development company chatroom stuff, he was all cold efficiency and not a ray of happiness. No wonder those two companies violently parted ways over Otherworld.

 

And yes, I got a job there thanks to stuff here on Doomworld; My testing of various wads back then, my role in co-founding TNT Revilution, and my astounding knowledge of thier game and how things worked got me an offer to work on the 1.3 update. Corporate BS led me to leave, and I'll never willingly work in a company again as stuff that goes on in there usually goes against my principles.

[Bucket]

  On 4/9/2023 at 3:35 PM, Mr. Freeze said:

 

Dead Space Remake tho 

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So maybe ten years from now, EA can release a re-skin of the first Alice game and as long as it doesn't do anything terribly offensive we'll all lap it up like good little consumers. Is that what you're looking forward to?

 

Anyway, I came back to post this.