Steve Nix on Ritual Acquisition, SiN Episodes

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GameIndustry.biz has a lengthy interview with former Ritual CEO Steve Nix and while it's mainly about his new gig as director of business development at id Software, it wraps up with two questions about Ritual - covering the acquisition by MumboJumbo, and the SiN Episodes series. Here's a slice on Ritual's newfound casualness:

So after I left, Ritual hadn't even been contemplating an acquisition by those guys. They said, "What's our best opportunity now?" It really happened very quickly after I left and I haven't really talked to those guys a lot, so they didn't really consult me on the acquisition. It helps that United Developers [MumboJumbo's parent -ed] is on the third floor of a three-story building and Ritual is on the second floor. [laughs] So it was able to work. I know for those guys, they were interested in getting off of the project to project treadmill and focus on having fun and making games. [...] There was a lot of interest in casual games even before that with the Weekend Games projects that Brian "Squirrel" Eiserloh was running, so there was a lot of interest in casual games at Ritual, so the move doesn't really surprise me.

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