George Ziets has left inXile and is opening a new RPG studio called Digimancy Entertainment

[Infinitron]

Announced in a sneak preview at the end of Matt Barton's latest video:

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Edited October 21, 2019 by Infinitron

[Zafar1981]

Good luck George. 

[algroth]

Good luck George! Looking forward to what he does next.

[Melusina]

oh my god... why do these studios open up and branch up like Croatian political parties? Where will he find his employees when everyone is looking for same employees?

 

EDIT: Good luck, anyway.

Edited October 21, 2019 by Melusina

[Mamoulian War]

I think there might be a lot of potential employees available at Blizzard given the current circimstances

[Oner]

The video game industry is oversaturated with people, or so I keep hearing.

[Hurlshort]

My guess is he got a decent payout when they sold. Like many of us, I imagine the idea of striking out on our own with financial security was tempting. I wish him luck.

[bugarup]

I kind of want to scoop all those expats and orphans of dead/declining RPG studios in one place so that they'd pool resources and create the sublime experience, but alas, people are not Sims. Good luck then. 

[HoonDing]

who

[IndiraLightfoot]

I'm curious what he'll do next. He's got talents in spades as far as writing RPGs goes.

[Keyrock]

Best of luck to him and his new studio, I hope we get some great games out of them.

[kanisatha]

19 hours ago, IndiraLightfoot said:

I'm curious what he'll do next. He's got talents in spades as far as writing RPGs goes.

There's a recent Matt Chat interview which includes a short segment in which Ziets talks about his vision for his new studio. It's available in many places; here's one:

https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43974

The main interview is with Trent Oster of Beamdog, which in itself is rather interesting and includes discussing why his PsT successor game did not work out. The Ziets bit is the last 10 minutes or so.

 

[mkreku]

I have that same Bard's Tale 4 box in the background..

[Melusina]

On 10/21/2019 at 11:55 PM, Oner said:

The video game industry is oversaturated with people, or so I keep hearing.

Are they any good with bug patching?

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, Melusina said:

Are they any good with bug patching?

Nope, they’re to busy crafting lootboxes.

[ComradeYellow]

I can't see this materializing into anything significant and worthwhile.  If I'm wrong, cool!  Who doesn't want to be pleasantly surprised?

[Oner]

I figure this makes more sense here than in the news thread, so enjoy part 3 of the interview, focusing on Mask of the Betrayer: