While the corporate webpage nonetheless reads “Campo Santo is a small but scrappy video game developer in San Francisco,” that may most likely want some updating within the instant future. The twelve particular person crew behind Firewatch and the forthcoming In The Valley of Gods has been acquired by Valve, the place the crew will stay intact. Campo Santo is answerable for critically and commercially profitable titles, and they’re going to proceed work at Valve in Bellevue wrapping up In The Valley of Gods, which after all, will now be a Valve sport.
Campo Santo additionally turned a studio on my birthday in 2013. We share a birthday. That’s fairly trill.
A portion of Campo Santo’s announcement is under, and incorporates probably the most pleasant tales of rum-running, if not the MOST pleasant story of rum-running, in trendy gaming enterprise.
In Valve we discovered a gaggle of parents who, to their core, really feel the identical method concerning the work that they do (this, you could be stunned to be taught, doesn’t occur day-after-day). In us, they discovered a gaggle with distinctive expertise and useful, numerous views. It rapidly turned an apparent match.
Second, whereas visiting IGN’s headquarters in early 2015 to speak about Firewatch, we got here throughout an undelivered 2011 Game of the Year Award for Portal 2. It occurred to be engraved on an unopened bottle of champagne. Never ones to cross up free alcohol, we stole it and drank it to rejoice the launch of Firewatch a yr later. So in some sense, it is a return residence for us. Well, for that bottle of champagne.
Third, and final, we had a sequence of lengthy conversations with the individuals at Valve and everybody shared the satisfaction we soak up working with individuals whose skills dwarf our personal to make issues we by no means thought doable. Both sides spoke about our values and the way, while you get proper right down to it, we, as human beings, are hard-limited by the point we’ve got left in terms of making the issues we care about and imagine in. They requested us if we’d all be enthusiastic about coming as much as Bellevue and doing that there and we stated sure.
Kotaku reports that the Campo Santo crew has already been having fun with the advantages of the merger, together with becoming a member of Valve on the annual firm retreat to Hawaii final week.
Congrats to your entire crew on The Big News. This can solely imply good issues for the inevitable launch of Valley, proper? Campo Santo additionally guarantees to maintain supporting Firewatch and releasing their quarterly literary journal. I do know a lot of you have been involved concerning the quarterly literary journal. The quarterly literary journal is okay.
