As many know, and some may not yet know, some­thing (what? I don’t know) went down at Mind Candy in the past few days, with regard to Per­plex City.  First of all, there is their Per­plex City home­page, which states that Sea­son 2 will be delayed indef­i­nitely.  Then you have blog posts from the in-game char­ac­ters Vio­let, Kurt, and Scar­lett that basi­cally say the same thing. Add into that the blog posts from a lot of the company/game founders that say that they are leav­ing Mind Candy: Dan, Adrian, Andrea, and Naomi.  Not that I have been fol­low­ing Sea­son 2 (and/or Per­plex City Sto­ries) very closely, but two ques­tions that are on everybody’s minds are WTF? and WHY?  Did peo­ple leave vol­un­tar­ily because of some­thing going on (bad pol­i­tics, new job oppor­tu­nity?) Is a veneer of “vol­un­tary” hid­ing some­thing else?  Or is it just cost-cutting mea­sures?  (They had a pretty large staff for being, effec­tively, a startup com­pany.) Part of me is curi­ous, but part of me just doesn’t care.  For the most part, PXC dropped off of my radar when Sea­son 1 ended–I needed a break, then never really returned with any­thing resem­bling enthu­si­asm.  For what it’s worth, the wiki and cat­a­log will stay up, despite events.

Edit to add: There is also a farewell mes­sage from David Varela, writer.

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