![]() ![]() The original team that helped us get Fist Puncher on Steam was passionate about elevating interesting and unique games from small studios. “We also had an incredible experience working with Adult Swim over the years. “It’s been out for 11 years and we built a community around it through Steam,” he said. Lewandowski said Team2Bit remains hopeful that WB Discovery will give Fist Puncher back to the studio. “Their response was that they ‘cannot transfer the game’ due to the fact that they ‘made the decision not to transfer ownership due to logistical and resource constraints.’” “We requested that they transfer Fist Puncher back to our studio,” Lewandowski said. ![]() Lewandowski said that a rep blamed the impending removal of Fist Puncher on “internal business changes.” Matt Lewandowski, co-owner of studio Team2Bit, the developer behind the Adult Swim Games-published Fist Puncher, told Polygon that he’d also been contacted by Warner Bros. I’m a huge supporter of games preservation, and this is a direct blow to properly crediting the people that worked on a game.” “I asked for clarification, and he even wants the credits sequence altered to remove the names of the team. ![]() “The other legal requirement for republishing the game myself is to remove any and all mention of Adult Swim Games,” Molinari said. Doing so “would erase all my wishlists, reviews, community guides, and forum discussions, along with not allowing new and old owners of the game to compare achievements and trading cards,” Molinari said. Discovery informed him that he’s allowed to republish Soundodger+ on Steam, but that option presents its own issues. Discovery representative said the decision not to transfer ownership back to developers “stems from logistical and resource constraints” and “the limited capacity of our team.” (One developer Polygon spoke with said the current Adult Swim Games team consisted of a “skeleton crew.”) Molinari expressed frustration that WBD’s planned removal of his game and others would lead to “over a decade of downloads, community guides, reviews, and patch notes suddenly vanishing.”Īccording to Molinari, Warner Bros. I sent him a link to Steam’s transfer page and explained clearly that it takes literally three clicks to transfer ownership to me. “I pleaded with the rep to transfer ownership to my company, as I still retain all IP and game rights. “I don’t know if they’re delisting it or deleting it,” Molinari told Polygon in an email. Discovery rep earlier this week that his game would be “removed from Steam” within the next 60 days. Discovery, but they are still in the dark about what it means for their games.ĭeveloper Michael Molinari, who released Soundodger+ through Adult Swim Games in 2013, told Polygon he received a warning from a Warner Bros. Two studios responded to say that they’d received a similar warning from Warner Bros. Polygon reached out to other developers who had worked with Adult Swim Games as a publisher. He responded to the company’s decision by making the Windows PC version of Small Radios Big Televisions available to download for free from his studio’s website. Reedy said on X Tuesday the game was being “retired” by Adult Swim Games’ owner. plan to potentially pull Adult Swim’s games from Steam and the PlayStation Store was first reported by developer Owen Reedy, who released puzzle-adventure game Small Radios Big Televisions through the label in 2016. does go through with plans to delist Adult Swim’s games from Steam and digital console stores, 18 or more games could be affected. Acme, and removed multiple series from its streaming services. Discovery infamously scrapped plans to release nearly complete movies Batgirl and Coyote vs. The media conglomerate’s planned removal of those games echoes cuts from its film and television business Warner Bros. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim unclear. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. ![]()
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