Alternative Studio Organisation: An Anthology of Summer Eternal

Summer Eternal made waves in October 2024, 2025 and 2026, each time upsetting the usual game development playing field. In 2024 they released a Manifesto where they promised to create a new structure that would challenge classic ownership structures in games, promising workers, freelancers, and even players a seat at the table. On the panel you will be able to hear more about how that works, and the experiences from running a co-op studio.

Then, in 2025, instead of an online game reveal, they opted to do a physical one - with a 500-page book called Anthology Volume One. The first printing ended up having 5000 copies, and serves as part cultural journal about labor and politics in videogames, part chronicle of the studio's first year journey, and part global reveal of the studio's upcoming game, RPG Red Rooster. Part of the panel will serve as a deep dive into this radically different approach to revealing a game, and how studios could think outside the box when presenting themselves and their upcoming games.

Also, on the panel, there will be a discussion on the RPG innovations in their game Red Rooster, a game set to be announced in late September 2026, and the panel will specifically address what is missing for the "next step in evolution" of the RPG genre, to make them feel more immersive, and how Summer Eternal's new game Red Rooster will tackle some of those ambitions. More on this to be presented exclusively on the panel. Hush hush!