and we were just feeling worse and worse and more annoyed all the time." Minecraft was considered, apparently, but people tended to just wander off and start digging, or dumping gravel on the meeting table, "so picking the most ludicrous game to meet in seemed good."īut then, as it turned out, it wasn't quite as ridiculous as expected. "We were having to deal with all those Zoom and Skype meetings and emails and phone calls. "Mostly we were just having a really crap time," said Viv when I spoke to them, about their meeting life before Cowboys. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. It's nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. Viv brought this revelation to light with this thread on Twitter, which has since launched dozens of similar initiatives in small businesses with a taste for their weird, and has reputedly been received with delight at Castle Rockstar, where the Cowboys were originally created before being imprisoned in the game. So grab yourself a seat by the fire and a rusty tin of hawk viscera, and let's action some deliverables. They've been meeting with workmates in the uncanny environs of RDR2 for some time now, and while they can't swear blind that it's the most efficient place to do business, it is at least not Zoom.
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But writer, illustrator and good tweeter Viv Schwarz, who related the above anecdote to me, has discovered that this recipe was missing a crucial third ingredient: corporate culture.
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I've long been a fan of the way the Cowboy Game - especially its multiplayer mode - mixes obsessive realism with glitchiness and ultraviolence to create a sense of weird, unreal melancholy. But in Red Dead Redemption 2, which is rapidly emerging as an unlikely competitor to Zoom and Skype in the world of conference calling, this is business as usual. Didn't recognise myself for ages." This may sound like the start of a magical realist detective story, rather than something you'd say in a meeting with colleagues. "Found my own body floating down the river today.