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  1. Taglio netto in ZA/UM: lo studio di Disco Elysium licenzia 32 dipendenti, un terzo dell'organico. La decisione segue le vendite deludenti di Zero Parades, progetto che non ha garantito la sostenibilità economica necessaria.

    #notizievideogiochi #gamingnews #videogiochi #zeroparades

  2. Playing ZERO PARADES FOR DEAD SPIES. I know some of the story about what happened at ZA/UM (just the public bits, of course) but I gotta say: this one's gently caressing my buttons in the right way. I was always a sucker for cold-war-esque spy shit. (Bond, Archer, Alias, etc). Add in a female POV protag, some dry wit, some wild glances in the Horny Internet direction...these fuckers know their audience! (It me, I'm audience.)

    At this stage (still early) I don't
    think it'll be as ridiculous out-of-nowhere amazing the way DISCO ELYSIUM was. All the same. I'm having a blast.

    #zeroparades #spy #gaming

  3. Playing ZERO PARADES FOR DEAD SPIES. I know some of the story about what happened at ZA/UM (just the public bits, of course) but I gotta say: this one's gently caressing my buttons in the right way. I was always a sucker for cold-war-esque spy shit. (Bond, Archer, Alias, etc). Add in a female POV protag, some dry wit, some wild glances in the Horny Internet direction...these fuckers know their audience! (It me, I'm audience.)

    At this stage (still early) I don't
    think it'll be as ridiculous out-of-nowhere amazing the way DISCO ELYSIUM was. All the same. I'm having a blast.

    #zeroparades #spy #gaming

  4. CW: Musing about Zero Parades: For Dead Spies - no spoilers

    I want to circle back on Zero Parades: For Dead Spies now I've finished it. No spoilers, no gameplay aspects.

    Instead I wanted to mull over the concept of duplication. At one stage the main character (Cascade) makes a remark about making a copy of a communication by sending it through the fax machine; and how this isn't very spy-coded. At another stage she eats a page from the fax machine to prevent duplication.

    At another point in the game she's discussing recording formats with an audiophile/street vendor, specifically about a type of disc which can only be played once as it erases itself once it has been accessed. There is no way to recover the recording - it's heard once and then gone. There's no mention of broadcasts but it does seem to be possible to broadcast this format anyway though there's no mention on whether anyone actually does this.

    I wondered then about the nature of recording, reproducing and consuming art. Would you take on a piece of art to "own" if you could only ever experience it once? What would it mean to create something that can only be purely experienced once and then lost forever?

    Would you buy a song by an artist that you could only ever hear once? And if you had the disc, would you keep it indefinitely instead and never listen to it? What does it mean to do that?

    #ZeroParades #ZeroParadesForDeadSpies

  5. CW: Musing about Zero Parades: For Dead Spies - no spoilers

    I want to circle back on Zero Parades: For Dead Spies now I've finished it. No spoilers, no gameplay aspects.

    Instead I wanted to mull over the concept of duplication. At one stage the main character (Cascade) makes a remark about making a copy of a communication by sending it through the fax machine; and how this isn't very spy-coded. At another stage she eats a page from the fax machine to prevent duplication.

    At another point in the game she's discussing recording formats with an audiophile/street vendor, specifically about a type of disc which can only be played once as it erases itself once it has been accessed. There is no way to recover the recording - it's heard once and then gone. There's no mention of broadcasts but it does seem to be possible to broadcast this format anyway though there's no mention on whether anyone actually does this.

    I wondered then about the nature of recording, reproducing and consuming art. Would you take on a piece of art to "own" if you could only ever experience it once? What would it mean to create something that can only be purely experienced once and then lost forever?

    Would you buy a song by an artist that you could only ever hear once? And if you had the disc, would you keep it indefinitely instead and never listen to it? What does it mean to do that?

    #ZeroParades #ZeroParadesForDeadSpies

  6. I've been playing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies pretty solidly (I'm on game day 8), I will have a lot to say about it once I'm done.

    Anyway I made the mistake of looking up the actor playing Cascade (Boo Miller) and she looks *nothing* like I expected. In my head canon therefore she's still a cross between Zoe Lyons (I'm pretty sure she has a Monmouthshire accent) and Andrea Riseborough.

    I think it was a fantastic choice to have a gritty and very regional accent in the game with flat/rounded consonants and depressed vowels that would sound very alien to many people. It's also really cool to have a game set somewhere in an analogue of Italy... or maybe Andorra. Haven't quite worked that one out yet.

    #ZeroParades

  7. I've been playing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies pretty solidly (I'm on game day 8), I will have a lot to say about it once I'm done.

    Anyway I made the mistake of looking up the actor playing Cascade (Boo Miller) and she looks *nothing* like I expected. In my head canon therefore she's still a cross between Zoe Lyons (I'm pretty sure she has a Monmouthshire accent) and Andrea Riseborough.

    I think it was a fantastic choice to have a gritty and very regional accent in the game with flat/rounded consonants and depressed vowels that would sound very alien to many people. It's also really cool to have a game set somewhere in an analogue of Italy... or maybe Andorra. Haven't quite worked that one out yet.

    #ZeroParades

  8. A couple hours into Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and I am enjoying this cold war spy disaster (the protagonist is pretty clearly no George Smiley) built around Disco Elysium mechanics.

    #Gaming #ZeroParades

  9. A couple hours into Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and I am enjoying this cold war spy disaster (the protagonist is pretty clearly no George Smiley) built around Disco Elysium mechanics.

    #Gaming #ZeroParades

  10. 🚀ZA/UM yeni RPG'i Zero Parades: For Dead Spies' ile casusluk evrenine 21 Mayıs PC’de girişi yapacak. İlk fragman, gizemli görevler ve derin hikayeyle dolu. İlgilenenler fragmanı izlemeli!

    🚩 #GameRelease #ZeroParades #ZAUM #RPG

  11. Finished the Demo of #zeroParades yesterday. I loved #discoElysium and I can‘t wait for the finished new Game. Wanted to try a picture close-ish to the Game :) didn‘t work, but I like it anyway :)

  12. ZA/UM Unveils "Zero Parades," Maintaining Creative Independence Amidst Industry Shifts

    newsletter.tf/zaum-zero-parade

    ZA/UM's new spy game, Zero Parades, is out. The studio hopes to stay small and creative, not become a big 'AAA' company.

    #ZeroParades, #ZAUM, #DiscoElysium, #IndieGames, #GamingNews