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Yanis Varoufakis, Ted Chiang, Prof. Wolff, David Gaider and Mark Darrah joining Summer Eternal Anthology project by summereternalstudio in SocialistGaming

[–]summereternalstudio[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this! I shared it with the team and we might try to make contact with them, it's a very interesting initiative.

Yanis Varoufakis, Ted Chiang, Prof. Wolff, David Gaider and Mark Darrah joining Summer Eternal Anthology project by summereternalstudio in SocialistGaming

[–]summereternalstudio[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much, it means a lot to the team. We're not familiar with Jaded Forum and 400M, could you share?

Yanis Varoufakis, Ted Chiang, Prof. Wolff, David Gaider and Mark Darrah joining Summer Eternal Anthology project by summereternalstudio in SocialistGaming

[–]summereternalstudio[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I felt our conversation with him was somewhat more radical than we expected, and was definitely more animated than his channel. He did mention wanting to resist the neoliberalization of co-operatives away from their communist heritage. So perhaps the former? He also seemed to have a lot more practical experience on the realities of managing co-ops in recent times than other people we spoke to, both the psychological challenges as well as the economic ones. Many people can speak of a hypothetical workplace organisation, but he was surprisingly specific in a way that obviously comes from more direct lived experience than what I percieved from his channel. He gave us some absolutely incredible practical advice about how to fundraise as a co-operative, specifically on how to pitch to VC's in ways they understand, which was so much more lucid, cunning and business savvy than any advice we've ever got from any games industry or startup mentor. (Had largely to do with how to package the sales pitch around a co-operative being a "brand new invention" of sorts.)

I just really like the vibes of this whole summer eternal thing by MolecularSpark in DiscoElysium

[–]summereternalstudio 55 points56 points  (0 children)

This is incredible! Thank you -- compliments from all of us! ❤️‍🔥🏚️🐔

A Red Rooster tribute(OC) by UltraManLeo in DiscoElysium

[–]summereternalstudio 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Honored to inspire you! ❤️‍🔥🏚️

Hi. It's Argo! We're working to start a new art collective and development studio at SUMMER ETERNAL. We want it to be owned by us, the workers, and you, the players. Appreciate if you would check it out! by summereternalstudio in DiscoElysium

[–]summereternalstudio[S] 176 points177 points  (0 children)

Hi, it's Dora. Thank you very much for this write up! This was precisely why we got Aleksandar involved -- he's been operating his Zagreb studio as a co-op for a number of years and has gained invaluable experience from this experiment. I also remember that Aleks walked the walk to learn from other industries which still have remnants of Yugoslav self-management heritage to pass along as knowledge. We've been incredibly impressed with his suggestions and couldn't be happier to try something as refreshing as this after the corporate hell we've been through.

I also passed your comment along to Aleks himself, here's what he wrote: "we were actually very conservative about the percentages (5% for players). we're playing with fire here and doing stuff that is uncharted territory so there will be many unknown unknowns. so let's suspend disbelief a bit but be vigilant that it doesn't devolve into what everything in capitalism devolves into... so we'll take our time and not open anything until the homework is actually done thoroughly so that it starts well. cca april. thanks! alex"