How Telltale Went Broke

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The Walking Dead
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The Walking Dead (2012)
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How a reliance on investment funding, a fruitless formula, and leaks to the press precipitated one catastrophic week in Telltale's 14-year history.

Reliance on investment funding: 3:30
The internal adoption of The Walking Dead's "formula:" 9:09
Leaks to the press: 12:45

Massive thanks to those who chose to reach out, and for them making so many great games over the years.

Music by the Raddest, Daddest, Ace Waters:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUqCvRYlQy02gULC5GAupQQ

Productivity & "crunch time" studies:
https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/315/pdfs/are-happy-workers-more-productive.one-pager.pdf?v=1
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-642
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.05789.pdf

BAFTA Awards interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqQ2PAF8QbA
Spike Awards interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCg-qICMOfo
The only damn footage I could find of the *actual* Spike awards speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zCW5jm8VA

That IGN interview where that hilarious Warren Spector quote comes from: https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/09/11/warren-spector-interview-part-1



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