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#aleksander rostov#art#illustration#sketch#painting#digital art#sketchbook#artists on tumblr#heavypaint#concept art
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my three girlfriends. and yes they smoke weed.
-acele
#that’s how the church confrontation went right? pfttt#please people it’s not a fanart#not my art#de official art#de concept art#aleksander rostov#rostovjanka#disco elysium#acele berger#noid#pete andre#egghead#speedfreaks
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Selected excerpts of Disco Elysium (2019), created by Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov
#webs#web weaving#excerpts#disco elysium#disco elysium spoilers#robert kurvitz#aleksander rostov#mine#sorry i've been so shit at doing anything on this blog recently; was really burning out at the end of term but we broke up friday#and i am just about alive enough to make something again#also i spent four of those five days binging this game so. have the bits that reached thru the screen and punched me in the face#theme: anguish#theme: love#theme: of course we will hurt each other#theme: truth#theme: beauty#theme: grief#theme: memory#theme: haunting
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No one's saying this so I'll say it. The new People Make Games video is there to do nothing but manufacture consent for the company being taken away from its founders.
I'm sorry but for one moment set all of the interpersonal conflicts aside and look at the situation very simply. The video's message is that the executives taking away the products of Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere's labor from them is somehow rendered morally grey by Kurvitz being hard to work with. You cannot possibly fall for this shit.
People are hard to work with sometimes. They're flaky or rude or just incompatible. But you cannot in any way use that to somehow call the situation grey. It's not a give and take situation. People's labor was stolen from them. The world they conjured for themselves for twenty years was stolen from them. What kind of people they were should literally be the last thing on anyone's mind.
Really as soon as the narrative becomes "the poor beleaguered employees were saved by the brave intervention of the executive firing their fellow employees and seizing the IP for themselves" you have to be more than a little bit skeptical.
Hindpere herself says it. Every single aside from the ownership dispute and the fact of the IP theft is just that. An aside.
The founders of ZA/UM, Kurvitz and Hindpere and Rostov and co, were passionate and eclectic and genuine and what they made was taken from them.
It is not complicated. You're either with the executives or you're against the people without whom the game you love wouldn't exist.
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What I know about the situation at Zaum Studio OÜ, developers of Disco Elysium
Perhaps you've heard of the deplorable situation of Disco Elysium's fired leads, of the oust by majority shareholder and CEO, of the lawsuits and rest of the cultural association and 'old guard' still at work there, quiet and held quiet by corporate policy and perhaps embittered by the 'auteur' theory holding parasocial public.
What I am going to share with you is information that is publicly available through Estonian and United Kingdom company registers. I haven't seen any news outlet feature this information yet.
WHAT IS NEW HERE?
Ilmar Kompus, the current CEO who was installed in 2020, had actually been a shareholder all along since Zaum Studio's founding in Estonia.
Kaur Kender, the author in his own right and producer at Zaum, has founded a lot of game development companies in Estonia and United Kingdom, while Zaum worked, published and updated Disco Elysium. These apparently went nowhere, some of them are now defunct. All of them had Ilmar Kompus or some ZAUM subsidiary as shareholders, and some also shared correspondence addresses with ZAUM's UK subsidiaries.
The 'game pitch' that cost Zaum 4,8 million euros and funded Kompus' acquisition of majority share from Linnamäe, the so called Pioneer One, has been previously reported by one gaming news outlet to have come via Anu Reiman's YESSIRNOSIR Limited. I have discovered that Kaur Kender held a game company in UK called Pioneer One Ltd that was active between years 2018-2022, and it had an Estonian artist Kristiina Ago as its secretary. I cannot prove that it was this entity that sold it instead, but it is a glaring coincidence nevertheless.
Kaur Kender and later Ilmar Kompus have founded a succession of ZAUM studios (Zaum London, Zaum UK, Disco Elysium UK and now Zaum Studio Limited) which have held the main development operations in UK. Kurvits and Rostov/Taal hold minority shares in Zaum UK. The later ones are all Ilmar Kompus-held in shares. I suspect this is a method of his to sever the fired leads' means of control to the company's branches in UK.
Both the 'main line' of Zaum's UK companies and Zaum Studio OÜ back in Estonia have loaned money to the tune of millions to Newelysium and Revachol in UK (Note, Revachol OÜ in Estonia is held by ZAUM cultural association members and is not a game studio)
What does it all mean then? I am not certain. I have not practical experience in game dev industry to say whether constantly making side companies or shells is a sign of a healthy leadership.
However looking at all the shell companies made near annually, and how the successive ‘main studios’ have consolidated into Kompus’ hands, I am going to speculate a bit.
This has been a long con. Whether there was going to be a product that sold well or not, Kompus, Haavel and Kender were going be the ones collecting the jackpot. There were shell companies being established even as the game was floundering after the estonians’ walkout. All the ‘artists’ had to do was just do the work and not get in the way of money.
But then ZA/UM made an award-winning darling game of the year. TV show adaptation deals. Lead developers like Kurvits and Hindpere standing at the Game Awards Show spotlight. Audience eating up all that and latching onto whatever crumb and morsel might come next.
A clean exit sale out of a modest studio became impossible. Now there were developers in the studio who knew they were worth A LOT and with shareholders’ power both in Zaum Studio OÜ and Zaum UK Ltd to hamper any sale to Tencent, Amazon or Microsoft. Now we reach the part of “toxic misogynist auteurs trying to steal the IP for themselves.” who had to be let go.
Kender's lawsuit around the turn of 2022-2023 and divestiture of his Zaum Studio OÜ shares as result muddles the water for this speculated theory even more as he still holds directorship in a number of shell companies with Kompus back in UK. There is also Dark Maths Studios that he founded this April in UK, so it remains to be seen what he'll do and if its with Kompus and Haavel or alone.
#disco elysium#zaum#studio zaum#za/um#studio za/um#robert kurvits#robert kurvitz#alexander rostov#sander taal#helen hindpere#tonis haavel#tõnis haavel#kaur kender#ilmar kompus#püha ja õudne lõhn#terrible and sacred air#pjõl#pjol#aleksander rostov
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HELLO?
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Conquest of Revachol by Aleksander Rostov, for Disco Elysium
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The canon queer character of the day is:
Charles Villedrouin, AKA the Sunday Friend, who is gay.
#charles villedrouin#the sunday friend#disco elysium#za/um#jean-pascal heynemand#tariq khan#aleksander rostov#gay characters#canon queer characters#canon gay characters#gay
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Sevika (Arcane) in the style of Disco Elysium (Aleksander Rostov) .
Sevika, the lit cigar, the neon eye of the undercity once more aglow in pink… this is me trying to do a symbolism 😅 Also, modelled after character ‘the smoker on the balcony’ for reasons.
#arcane fanart#aleksander rostov#sevika#disco elysium fanart#Arcane Elysium#smoker on the balcony#homosexual underground#fanart#first post
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I tumble once more
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Nobody asked for this, but I just had to get my thoughts out there on People Make Games' recent video about Disco Elysium.
I hope it's clear I'm coming at this in good faith, and that I was able to put into this video properly what I saw so many people express. TL;DW, you never gotta hand it to the capitalist.
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#disco elysium#people make games#no truce with the furies#robert kurvitz#helen hindpere#aleksander rostov#martin luiga#studio zaum#kim kitsuragi#harry du bois#Youtube
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Aleksander Rostov and Robert Kurvitz have finally broken their silence to speak on the matter of their firing and upcoming legal battles
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for those unaware today the disco elysium directors went into more detail about why they were let go from ZA/UM, explaining that their major shareholders had fraudulently used money earned by the studio to buy a large stake in the company before forcing out the two directors to take the studio in a different, shittier direction. they're now taking legal action against the company because of it
#misc#disco elysium#de#za/um#aleksander rostov#robert kurvitz#i hope this post bload up so the original article gets seen by more ppl 🙏
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Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov have broken their silence on ZA/UM and Disco Elysium
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The full press release can be found below:
#disco elysium#za/um#zaum#studio zaum#zaum studio#robert kurvitz#aleksander rostov#fingers crossed they get their company or at least the IP back
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ZAUM vs Telomer part 2
New court hearing scheduled for September. Kurvits didn’t take the judge’s deal then.
#Disco Elysium#zaum#Studio ZAUM#za/um#studio za/um#robert kurvits#robert kurvitz#sander taal#aleksander rostov#helen hindpere#kaur kender#tõnis haavel#ilmar kompus
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Belated Polish Day art and another collab with @navybunn The reference was a photo taken in a thrift store wearing fur hats (one had a vintage label from Russia). We intended to draw in a style inspired by Disco Elysium and art by Aleksander Rostov.
#art#digitalpainting#digitalart#illustration#artinstagram#artistsupport#characterdesign#disco elysium#aleksander rostov#disco elysium art#illustrationportrait#polskamlodasztuka#drawing#artoftheday#digital#ipadproart#procreate
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