Thu, Apr 30, 2009 | 13:36 BST
Intoversion: Chronometer, Defcon DS, Multiwinia were all “failures”
Introversion’s Chris Delay has written up an account of the company’s “truly terrible” 2008 in the firm’s blog, claiming that everything he worked on last year was a “failure”.
“It’s hard for me to look back, because I see Subversion on hold so much of the time, and I see my major time sinks (Chronometer, Defcon DS, Multiwinia) all as failures, not even projects I wanted to work on, and now have to live with them all going sour,” said the developer.
Delay admits in the piece that Introversion nearly folded last year, but that new finding is now giving the firm hope.
“We’re back on the ascendancy, with a truly terrible year behind us, and a new sense of clarity and purpose,” he added.
It’s sobering stuff.
Thanks, Kotaku.
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Posted in: DS, Development, PC
Tags: Chris Delay, Introversion
7 comments
#1
Blerk
30/04/09, 1:45 pm
Defcon came out on the DS?
#2
Patrick Garratt
30/04/09, 1:46 pm
It nearly did.
#3
Blerk
30/04/09, 1:47 pm
Ah. Canned, was it?
#4
deftangel
30/04/09, 1:47 pm
They’ve made a DS version but have had to re-aquire it from one publisher and are now shipping it around to the others.
Not heard of Chronometer though…
#5
El_MUERkO
30/04/09, 2:14 pm
ouch
defcon ds though? it’ll sell one copy and everyone else will pirate it
#6
tont
30/04/09, 3:03 pm
Can’t help but think all this blogging is a bit of a boo-hoo for failing to jump on the Flash/iPhone/Facebook bandwagon, where Introversion could rule like kings (especially if they did an Uplink/Defcon mashup, innit).
#7
mart
30/04/09, 3:07 pm
Defcon would rule the fucking earth on iPhone. Get it done IV. Publish it yourself on the app store and take the lion’s share of the money.