• Sources: Valve Buys Firewatch Developer Campo Santo
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At first, I didn't get the reason or logic behind this acquisition, but the poster that brought up Campo Santo and Valve sharing the same niche of first person narrative based games makes an interesting point. Maybe after their current project, they will be brought on as talent for making other narrative based games for Valve? Definitely an... interesting choice, either way.
From the article: "Valve plans to leave Campo Santo intact as a team, a source said, rather than absorbing the studio and re-assigning its employees to other projects."
we wouldn't have walking simulators without half-life and half-life 2, the intros for those games are essentially walking simulators themselves
12, according to Campo Santo's blog post linked in the OP
My guess would be that they're waiting for the right moment to make a grand entrance into VR with a proper game. Talent in narrative driven games will come in handy.
I hold out some hope that the rumours of senior employees dragging everyone down into the mud who outdoes them in productivity at Valve are untrue, but human nature is human nature...
It's an interesting move, hope it works out well. Funnily enough, Campo Santo's head (and only, afaik) animator applied for a job at valve years back and wasn't accepted. He also made this thing from like 2011; https://youtu.be/wtIp8jOo8_o Must feel weird to finally get that job
...come to think of it, I wonder why Campo Santo got bought out before Facepunch, lol. You'd think that Facepunch would be prime material for a Valve acquisition!
It's going to be interesting if they make use of the team for any of valve's projects, there's some pretty amazing artistic and writing talent over there. Plus I'd love a Valve game to have a silly feature like Firewatch's where you could get the photos you took on camera in-game sent to you in themed packaging.
Valve bought a company to make Steam Audio last year, and they let the team behind Budget Cuts I think work in their office. How would you react if Valve said they just feel like they've made enough games?
[quote]Valve, a digital store operator that once made video games.[/quote] I remember those days,
Funny that not even Artifact is an original idea, it was by Richard Garfield. Ricochet is still their only completely original game (debatable with Portal and L4d)
It can be a bit complicated, IIRC in like 2011-14 they bought some IT firm for IT security/infra. Then recently in the last few years they bought the company that made what is now Steam Audio. There's also been a few "merges" or "adoptions" with some VR studios lately, but those haven't yielded anything yet to my knowledge.
Valve, a digital store operator that once made video games lmao
Wow Campo Santo was full of toxic people. What a weird decision. Surely nothing can go wrong here.
Can’t wait to make a video about the game only to get DMCA’d because I said something that they perceive a soffensive.
This is pretty great for Campo Santo. They never have to release another game again!
Thanks, the link skipped me. Nice, his other videos are also great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STVrS4MU3g Tyler has quickly made video about this.
lol that actually makes me wonder, the guy at campo santo said pewdiepie would never be allowed to make videos about any of their future games, i wonder if he's gonna try to stick to his word on that at valve if they actually come out with a game there
Where evidence, then? And this also applies James too?
Jokes aside, they'd probably ask it be upheld to the Campo Santo based original IP and not any work where Campo Santo was not the main and prominent influence, ie Valve IP, future original games that weren't the brain children of Campo Santo, etc.
Yes, but only in a roundabout way. I'm more concerned the head was happy to abuse the DMCA in a way that's most likely not legal.
Wish they would have bought Respawn Entertainment from EA to be honest.
I want them to buy crowbar collective, but I can easily see why it wouldn't work.
It took Valve acquiring an entire company before they started making games again.
What a news to hear on the sunday morning. Regarding In The Valley of the Gods though. Here's a neat post about the creation of water effects for the game. Campo Santo
I'll be honest, after hearing Gray Newell say he couldn't get any information about Source 2, I completely lost hope in valve as a company. This just restored it a little. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/236793/a04a6ca0-dcdd-48f6-8ab8-5cdd101bfba9/image.png Please don't ban me, I know memes like these were banned on sight back on the old forum, but it's the only way I can express my thoughts
Original memes are okay, I believe. That, and moderation is (so far) more lenient on Newpunch, as the mods and Garry have said anyways.
what the heck is Valve up to this time? This is exciting news! I'm expecting great works in the near future after Artifact and Valley of Gods.
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