eternal summera studio dedicated to role-playing games and also founded by Former ZA/UM developer Those involved in the canceled Disco Elysium project in the past are experimenting with a financing and governance model that is not common in the gaming industry. In fact, the company wants to involve players directly in the management of the studio and assign a Indirect participation equals 5% of profits.
Tested model
This project is based on fair share modelaccording to which the corporate structure should represent all entities involved in the company’s activities. Summer Eternal COO Aleksandar Gavrilović explains: “Unlike the ownership structures we are used to, Summer Eternal’s governance model is slightly different and is based on the FairShares philosophy that the studio structure should reflect all stakeholders. This includes the management cooperative, our collaborators with employees and freelancers, investors, but more radically, players.”
However, user participation will not be achieved through direct distribution of money. Summer eternal choice creation non-profit organization Who represents the players. The profits allocated to this component can therefore be used, through democratic decision-making, for measures chosen by the organization itself.
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“Typically, a consumer cooperative is an organization where consumers own the goods they buy, but in our case we chose to have consumers become part of a non-profit organization. This means that the participants will not make a profit for themselves; they will make a profit for themselves.” They can choose where to invest the organization’s revenue”, explains Gavrilovich.
The declared goal is also Changing the relationship between developers and the publicdedicated to building trust, Summer Eternal claims to have been compromised by the industry on multiple occasions. “Overall, this is a step towards repairing the trust in this industry that has been broken a thousand times. We hope to trigger a change in mentality, where the responsibility of developers to players does not end the moment the ‘buy’ button is pressed,” Gavrilović added.
The model also provides for the economic and decision-making participation of employees and free collaborators, while investors represent another category considered in the cooperative structure. However, for players, 5% represents the share allocated to the nonprofit Not a traditional form of equity.
Summer Eternal is a studio co-founded by Aleksandar Gavrilović and former ZA/UM members Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić. It is the experience gained during the development processCancel Disco Elysium expansion This appears to have contributed to a desire to experiment with different structures at both the financial and governance levels.
The studio’s first project, still in its early stages, is titled red chicken plan. To showcase the new model and collect the first subscriptions, Summer Eternal is also released Summer Eternal Anthology Vol. 1This book collects articles about the current state of the game industry, including writings and interviews from well-known figures such as “Dragon Age” screenwriter David Gaider and former Greek Finance Minister and Valve economist Yanis Varoufakis. The second part of this volume contains the design documents linked to the Red Rooster project.