'Hopetown', developed by Longdue Games, is being marketed as a spiritual successor to the acclaimed game 'Disco Elysium'. Set in a crumbling mining town, players take on the role of a rogue journalist navigating chaos through impactful word choices. However, there is ambiguity around the team’s composition, particularly regarding Piotr Sobolewski, who claims to be a co-creator of 'Disco Elysium' despite evidence suggesting limited involvement in its development. This raises questions about the legitimacy of the new project and its creators.
"Hopetown is a game where words are weapons, and every choice leaves its mark," the project's Kickstarter reads. "Set in a mining town teetering on the edge of collapse and reinvention..."
Longdue has been quite coy about who from the Disco Elysium team is working on Hopetown. The studio's only given one person major billing: Piotr Sobolewski...
Sobolewski refers to himself as "co-creator of the highest rated PC game of all time according to Metacritic" on Linkedin. That game, just to be clear, is Disco Elysium.
His self-assigned role as "co-creator" comes off as a bit of a stretch, especially when compared to the contributions of high-profile figures like writers Robert Kurvitz and Helen Hindpere.
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