Regarding the Genre change from ARPG to Farthest Frontier

[medea_fleecestealer]

If you look at Crate’s website they do have a few job openings, but Medierra isn’t looking to become a mega corp.

@medierra

To answer your other question about us become a bloated mega-corp - probably not anytime soon haha. The other benefit of being a single-owner company is that I’m pretty happy with how things are and I don’t feel like I need anymore money, beyond us just continuing to make profits like we are.
So there isn’t much attraction to “blowing up big” for me. I feel like the detraction of having to manage a larger company would greatly outweigh any benefit of moar money at this point.

We’ve gotten inquiries by potential investors looking to dump some money on us for some bigger project but that just seems like a headache to me, dealing with investors and suddenly having to schedule milestones and report what we’re doing, convince outside people to let us do this or that… no thanks!

That said, I wouldn’t mind growing a bit more, as I do have an interest in working on different games and it’s fun to see things progressing and taking shape - ideally at a somewhat faster rate than often is the case with us haha. Currently we have just enough people to work on our “new game” plus a GD expansion. I think we’ll be stretched thin if we start another totally new project. We’re actually in a weird spot currently where it would be great to hire another artist to wrap up FG but after that is finished, there would then be a lull before we get the next thing rolling, where we might not have enough work to go around… so it’s better to just try to grind through with the team we have for now, then hire later, once future things are in production.

As for any future expansions:

From the GD FB page 16.06.20

"Wait, when did we say we didn’t like the idea of a GD2? We will likely work on a sequel at some point but we need to take a break and recharge. We’re working on some other games currently but will probably get back to GD at some point, once we’ve had some time away to generate new ideas.

We’d continue to create expansions for GD but we’ve gotten to a point where there are so many dependencies and limitations based on what already exists, that needs to be carried forward and supported, that it becomes increasingly complicated for each additional expansion. This is why we’ve stopped with expansions and really need to move on to GD2, where we can start fresh."

Was also mentioned in the post above that logistics and age make it difficult to do more expansions for the game. They didn’t do an intro cinematic for FG for example because they had such problems incorporating the Ashes one into the game that it made it impossible to do an FG one iirc.