Realtime Worlds, creator of the online game All Points Bulletin, filed for bankruptcy protection last week.
After the virtual dissolution of the company last week, a number of developers find themselves without a job and noticeably angry. A number of ex-team members have made their thoughts of the fall of the publisher public knowledge via personal blogs or anonymous posts at gaming news sites.
Luke Halliwell, who worked for Realtime for six years, had some choice words for his former bosses on his personal website.
“There had been mounting discontent internally about the competence of our top management – and what better proof could you need than this. How they could keep operating the company when they couldn’t even pay this month’s wages, I don’t know,” he wrote. “Presumably they continued to think we had a chance somehow; the behaviour of a deluded, greedy, addicted gambler.” See Industry Gamers for more.