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Bankrupt indie developer behind Rime and Gylt promoting off sport rights at open public sale

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Tequila Works’ unfinished prototypes going for a track.

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Tequila Works, the indie developer behind Deadlight, Rime and Gylt, is promoting off all of its belongings in an open public sale after declaring chapter on the finish of final yr.

The rights and logos to its video games and a number of other unfinished prototypes at the moment are listed on the market on public sale web site Escrapalia, with bids being taken for the following 32 days.

Rime and Gylt are at present each fetching probably the most curiosity, with round 150 bids for every and an asking value of €15.5k (£13.5k) for every. On the time of writing, Deadlight goes for €2600 (about £2250).

Intriguingly, this sale additionally reveals prototypes for different Tequila Works tasks, offered as “vertical slices” the corporate seemingly made to pitch to publishers.

The Historical Mariner is described as an open-world narrative motion journey “centered on human feelings because the engine of gameplay”.

Dungeon Tour, in the meantime, would have been a “mid-core cooperative occasion sport for as much as 4 gamers” the place you managed a horde of vacationers by means of dungeons. Tequila Works says it was aiming for a visible and narrative model that includes “darkish and absurd humour, in a conceptual combine between Overcooked and Dungeon Keeper”.

Then there’s Brawler Crawler, a multiplayer title centered on fight in “a chaotic city universe the place the participant explores and struggles to grasp their very own fight model”. This could have featured procedurally-generated lanes with powerful raids and managers.

Again in November 2024, Tequila Works introduced it was submitting for insolvency as “extended market circumstances” had left it no different choice. Based in Madrid in 2009, the corporate’s most up-to-date sport was Track of Nunu: A League of Legends Story, which was launched below the now-defunct Riot Forge publishing label.

Saying the corporate’s shutdown, Tequila Works boss Térence Mosca stated he was “happy with what [the team] has achieved collectively”.

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