Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Dreamwave Update
:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/24/2007 07:24:00 PM When Rich Johnston posted some rumours about the Quebec City company Dreamwave on his Lying in the Gutters column last week, Sequential immediately contacted Pierre-Andre Dery, the nominal editor-on-chief of the company, for comment. Dery would not comment on the record about the fortunes of Dreamwave or its future plans (Dery's brother Christian Dery bought the intellectual property assets of Dreamwave at auction in 2005). However, Pierre-Andre Dery did give a few quotes, posted in the April 23 Lying in the Gutters, to Johnston about Dery's former studio Grafiksismik, which has been bankrupt and has slowly been paying off its former employees and freelancers since its major employer Speakeasy stopped paying its bills in 2005.
Johnston's original post was full of several misstatements and uncredited assertions. While most of Johnston's assertions are still unsubstantiated, Dery's actual quote is below (note: Johnston refers to the Christian Dery-owned Dreamwave as Dreamwave II):
Pierre-Andre Dery is still a member of the board of Grafiksismik, but not of Dreamwave II. However, Dreamwave II is owned by Dery Capital Inc, controlled by Pierre's brother Christian Dery. And Capitain Blitzkrieg is owned by Valerie Martineau, Pierre's long term partner.
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I spoke with Pierre over the weekend and he told me "Grafiksismik went bankrupt in the fall of 2005 after being unable to collect tens of thousands of dollars owed by Speakeasy... At the time every Grafik staffer were up to date with their payments with some freelancer debts remaining. The former stockholders have been slowly (Meaning too slowly, but still as fast as they can) paying those freelancers from their own pockets with a couple left unpaid to this day. When we'll be done paying freelancer debts this fall, it'll will have taken two years to pay up everyone the money we expected at the time from Speakeasy.
"While I have freelanced for Capitaine Blitzkrieg in different capacities in the past, I am not currently affiliated with this studio, I've been working full-time for a video game developer for over a year."
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