Changes at a previous employer January 24, 2005
This is probably not of interest to most people, but the CEO of my previous employer, JoWooD Software Productions, is stepping down. Read all about it.
Update: I just read in this German-language article that JoWooD has closed two development studios: Wings, developer of Soeldner, and JoWooD Ebensee, developer of Industry Giant. The manager of the Ebensee studio was a co-founder of the company (and one of the few people who knows why the company is called what it is). A mere two years ago, Industry Giant was the flagship franchise of the company.
From the article:
Für die Produktpipeline des Unternehmens ergeben sich daraus allerdings keine negativen Effekte.
Die Strategie von JoWooD sieht eine Fokussierung auf wenige Genres vor. Strategie-, Simulations- und Rollenspiele stellen hierbei den Kernbereich der Genres dar.
Which means:
This will have no negative effects on the company’s product pipeline.
JoWooD’s strategy involves focussing on the strategy, simulation and role-playing genres.
Which makes a lot of sense given that Industry Giant is a fast-paced action game puzzle game dating sim text adventure um. Maybe that doesn’t make sense.
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