Final yr, Spanish recreation studio Tequila Works introduced it was bancrupt, and shutting, even after prior workers cuts and the cancellation of an unannounced mission.
This month a web page appeared on the European public sale website Escrapalia that lists the varied intangible belongings of Tequila Works—its videogame IPs, in-development titles, and the studio’s model. The excessive bids for a lot of the revealed recreation rights, resembling Rime and the once-Stadia-exclusive Gylt, are between 10-20,000 euro at press time.
Additionally included are unfinished video games with playable vertical slices: The Historic Mariner, an open world recreation, Dungeon Tour, a co-op social gathering recreation, and Brawler Crawler, a multiplayer brawler with a procedurally generated world. There are additionally ideas for “4 authentic Tequila Works initiatives” which can be billed as “prepared for manufacturing” since their inventive, narrative, visible components, and copyright are all lined up.
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It is an inevitable consequence of the business, however a middle-tier, unbiased publisher-developer like this does not all the time exit in such a direct and public method: In my expertise they’re extra usually acquired by a bigger writer and quietly shuttered years later. Although that situation is not too far off from what occurred right here—Tequila Works’ majority shareholder was Tencent, as of 2022.
Not surprisingly absent from the public sale is Track of Nunu: A League of Legends Story, which Tequila Works developed for the League of Legends juggernaut’s now-defunct Riot Forge label.
Late final yr, Tequila Works common supervisor Térence Mosca stated in an announcement that he was “proud” of the Tequila Works crew’s accomplishments, however that “extended market situations” meant insolvency was the corporate’s solely selection.
“Since its founding in 2009, Tequila Works’ game-development philosophy has all the time targeted on ‘creating issues with gusto’,” stated the corporate’s assertion. “We’re doing all the things we will to supply assist and steering to our groups throughout this troublesome time.”
