Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.
  • TacoTroubles
    58•2 months ago

    Why can’t the german government just be happy with their most famous game developed there GOLLUM by Daedelic studio? Why do they need more?

      • @Maultasche@lemmy.world
        11•2 months ago

        Their best games (Edna, Deponia, …) were all made when Poki was still there. During that time they made some of the best modern pint-and-click adventures.

      • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
        0•2 months ago

        Before that they were remembered for the video game where you sell a black woman into slavery… As an organ grinder monkey. This is just karma.

          • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
            4•2 months ago

            The third(?) Deponia game. Where you have the clones. There’s one segment where you cause a woman to lose her job, trap her in a sewer, and “offer” her a job to escape the sewer by working as an organ grinder monkey. It’s really fucked up.

            Maybe not as fucked up as the puzzle where you lure a group of kids into a creepy guys van.

              • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
                -4•2 months ago

                Lol you didn’t even know it was a thing and now you’re an expert on it. And of course you immediately defend it.

                • body_by_make
                  4•2 months ago

                  You didn’t even know this person existed before they commented saying the company that makes the game you’re talking about used to be good and now you know everything about them. Wild.

    • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)
      2•2 months ago

      In defense of this game

      Their music’s are very very solids and now underated because no one plyaed the game (and I didn’t too but go listen to them, great DND ambiance Cool link)

  • @FuCensorship
    29•2 months ago

    The German government wants… Yeah and their bullshit censoring of games.

    • @leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
      13•2 months ago

      To be fair, it has gotten a lot better. Games rarely get censored anymore. Dying Light 2 comes to mind. The Index also has become rare, also the complete confiscation.

      But yes, I’m with you, the authorities have to go, the European classification should be enough!

      • redfellow
        7•2 months ago

        I’ll forever be salty about Carmageddon having zombies with green blood.

        • @leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
          1•2 months ago

          And please never forget the Multiverse of Soldier of Fortune 2, with their alternate timeline of Robot Humans. That was for me the most rediculous thing in my gaming career!

  • @De_Narm@lemmy.world
    17•2 months ago

    Just for context, you can’t actually apply anymore and it’s been like that for about a year. And that’s not the first time period for which aplications are blocked.

    In addition, both founding a start-up and actually applying is a lot of bureaucracy. You’ve probably run dry of money long before it’s approved.

    Lastly, I believe they mostly fund mobile games.

    • @pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
      10•2 months ago

      Short story time. In USA, over 25 years ago, a Russian immigrant used to give me rides down the peninsula to work in the early hours. I wondered at his ability to survive and provide for a family in our high cost of living area. He told me that applying for government and nongovernmental aid and so on was easy for him because he was used to the much worse Soviet bureaucracy.

    • @Yrt@feddit.de
      6•2 months ago

      Not only this, they cut the budget starting 2025 by a lot and only productions with >400k on their own will be qualified to apply for a state funding. Cause that will be a good reason for each state (Bundesland) to rise their funding (Berlin has some millions and Hessen 260k/year funding budget). Or at least that was one of the arguments to cut the state budget.

  • @Nath@aussie.zone
    3•2 months ago

    They have Egosoft and their X universe games. Epic sandbox galactic games. I love my X3 empires.

  • @sturlabragason@lemmy.world
    -6•2 months ago

    It can’t be easy with all the 5 week vacations, 37,5h work week, and basic workers rights to try to develop as much as the US dev sweatshop. Let’s not even mention ma/paternity leave.

    Edit: Seems yet again I’ve managed to showcase a lil bit of my ignorance. Learning is fun. I’m not sure if the downvoting is happening because of my sarcasm or if my sarcasm wasn’t obvious, or for other reasons🙂.