Auran Developer Resigns – Cites Ripten’s Fury Review In Blog Announcment

by Chad Lakkis on November 5, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Fury Resignation

In reviewing our incoming links this morning, we came across one titled “And Now For A Taste Of Things To Come”. We of course clicked it out of curiosity, and were surprised at what we found.

The incoming link pointed to our review of Fury, developed by Auron, and was part of what appeared to be a resignation announcement by one of their developers.

In this announcement, “Doolwind” states the following…

“We had a great new game coming up, great people and some awesome tech made by the engine programmer. It’s a shame that I’ll no longer be working with the team, but unfortunately there are some things I just can’t change.”

The words “just can’t change” were linked to our review, which scored the game a 4.0 out of 10. Good or bad, a review is simply one individual’s opinion of a game, and while some may agree with it, others will often criticize it.

Whether the “things I can’t change” comment was referring to the negative press the game was receiving overall, or the actual issues listed in our review is unclear. Below is the post in its entirety.

And Now For A Taste Of Things To Come

I finally resigned from Auran a couple of weeks ago. I’ve wanted to try running my own software development company for a while now and I’ve been asked to write a book based on my programming personality test. I thought I was going to be contracting at Auran; however it seems they’ve run out of money, or projects or something and I’ll now be contracting 3 days per week at the company I used to work with, MVH. While I’m glad to be leaving Auran, I’m going to miss the team I was working with. We had a great new game coming up, great people and some awesome tech made by the engine programmer. It’s a shame that I’ll no longer be working with the team, but unfortunately there are some things I just can’t change.

As fate would have it, my 4th anniversary for being in the games industry comes up tomorrow. While I’ll still be working on games tech as a contractor, I’m officially no longer a full-time game programmer. I’ve now moved into the realm of entrepreneur and business owner. I’ve also just moved into my new home and am more over moving than I’ve ever been. I’ve set up a small home office with a few computers, whiteboard etc ready for the business to begin. I’ll keep you posted with how things go, however I’ll still keep this blog primarily game related.

Auran Developer Resigns – Cites Ripten’s Fury Review In Blog Announcment

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