Media: in the creation of The Day Before "complete chaos", developers suffer from a toxic work culture
3DNews journalists talked to people familiar with the state of affairs in the FNTASTIC studio. If you believe them, the development of The Day Before is going hard, and in the studio itself “there is an atmosphere of hopelessness and despair.”
The main thing from the material:
▪️FNTASTIC tacitly obliges employees to engage in volunteering, which is understood in the studio as free recycling. Those who refuse to do this are criticized and can be fired. There is a high turnover of personnel in the studio, — they are fired even for “the idea of part-time work on the side”;
The FNTASTIC management is incompetent “in all aspects”. The founders of the studio, Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev, make many decisions on The Day Before themselves, without listening to specialists. At the same time, they often change their minds the next day and cancel their decisions. One of the brothers’ frequent requests is to make The Day Before look like The Last of Us and other Western hits in this genre;
The Day Before exists, but now “everything works on crutches” in it. To create all the necessary mechanics, she needs about a year, and the same amount for polishing;
The build of the game began only at the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022, and most of the mechanics shown to the audience were made specifically for trailers. FNTASTIC is going to release the game The Day Before in its raw form, modifying it later with patches.
The editors of App2Top have contacted MYTONA, the publisher of The Day Before, for comment.
