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Inspired by the urban sport „Le Parkour“, TOTEMS is a super-heroic platform game with tactical elements that let the player magically transform the world and story to their own style and skill. This third-person 3D action adventure offers ...
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10Tacle Belgium is no more, Totems suspended
Posted on Thursday, 7 August 2008 by Ryuken, source: PlanetAdelpha
Their parent company 10Tacle Studios AG are now suffering from financial problems although things were going downhill earlier this year already according to an ex-employee of Elsewhere who tells his story on fansite PlanetAdelpha:
open letter to the fans by an ex-employee wrote:
“It is true that 10tacle Belgium aka EE is dead. R.I.P.”
“The info you stated on your website was pretty much accurate, 10tacle AG is in a big financial crisis and it is not over yet. Here at EE it has been 6 months since they don't pay us. The company took on its personal cash and contracted debts in order to keep paying the employees until 2 months ago (since june in fact). So it has been two months since we're not paid which is a difficult situation for everyone here and Yves had to take a decision, we couldn't wait much longer for the money of 10tacle. So Yves decided to close the studios. Me and all the colleagues at EE are waiting for a last payment which will cover 2 months and a half of salary, but with very little hope because we had a lot of promises that never made their way out. Difficult situation especially for people for who have a house to pay, children or just one salary.”
“From the business and development point of view, Totems was paused (heavy) end of March due to cash issues of 10tacle, we were doing the VSD (vertical slice demo). We had quite a lot of things to show and positive feedbacks. I guess you saw the problem with Michael Pes and stuff, 10tacle AG suffered quite a lot due to Elveon cancel, Totems being late and more over wrong investments here and there. So 10tacle was out of cash, without a CEO and investors were not happy at all. With the new CEO, investors decided to change company's orientation, focusing only on online games and online worlds, they had already a project in mind (cannot tell you much more on this sorry). So for the team the last 6 months were quite depressing and there was a lot of uncertainties, some people left the company.”
“In the meantime as we saw that the financial situation was becoming critical at 10tacle AG, the company decided to create a small spin off project based on what've being doing on Totems for 3 years, we worked on a project called Urban Race, a multiplayer parkour game yet very different from an esthetic point of view but really the same movement engine behind Totems.”
“Concerning Totems IP I don't know what will happen. We don't even to whom it belongs. Some say to EE, others to 10Tacle.
I'd like to see it taken by someone else or a new studio with former members of EE, but I'm not confident about this, maybe one day Totems will rise again but form the moment it is buried in a dusty box. Concerning the assets and code ... All belongs to 10tacle (but we are not sure). The technology belongs to EE and Region Wallone (who is the subsidiary for the engine).”
“I saw the messages on the board, all I can say is thank you for the support.“
The chance we will be seeing Totems or that spin-off project Urban Race (screens popped up at Factornews) seems pretty much nihil now. “It is true that 10tacle Belgium aka EE is dead. R.I.P.”
“The info you stated on your website was pretty much accurate, 10tacle AG is in a big financial crisis and it is not over yet. Here at EE it has been 6 months since they don't pay us. The company took on its personal cash and contracted debts in order to keep paying the employees until 2 months ago (since june in fact). So it has been two months since we're not paid which is a difficult situation for everyone here and Yves had to take a decision, we couldn't wait much longer for the money of 10tacle. So Yves decided to close the studios. Me and all the colleagues at EE are waiting for a last payment which will cover 2 months and a half of salary, but with very little hope because we had a lot of promises that never made their way out. Difficult situation especially for people for who have a house to pay, children or just one salary.”
“From the business and development point of view, Totems was paused (heavy) end of March due to cash issues of 10tacle, we were doing the VSD (vertical slice demo). We had quite a lot of things to show and positive feedbacks. I guess you saw the problem with Michael Pes and stuff, 10tacle AG suffered quite a lot due to Elveon cancel, Totems being late and more over wrong investments here and there. So 10tacle was out of cash, without a CEO and investors were not happy at all. With the new CEO, investors decided to change company's orientation, focusing only on online games and online worlds, they had already a project in mind (cannot tell you much more on this sorry). So for the team the last 6 months were quite depressing and there was a lot of uncertainties, some people left the company.”
“In the meantime as we saw that the financial situation was becoming critical at 10tacle AG, the company decided to create a small spin off project based on what've being doing on Totems for 3 years, we worked on a project called Urban Race, a multiplayer parkour game yet very different from an esthetic point of view but really the same movement engine behind Totems.”
I'd like to see it taken by someone else or a new studio with former members of EE, but I'm not confident about this, maybe one day Totems will rise again but form the moment it is buried in a dusty box. Concerning the assets and code ... All belongs to 10tacle (but we are not sure). The technology belongs to EE and Region Wallone (who is the subsidiary for the engine).”
“I saw the messages on the board, all I can say is thank you for the support.“
As for what remains... maybe the Walloon region might help out the devs of Elsewhere Entertainment, at least if they still want to see something being done with the tax money they've invested in the engine behind Totems.
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