I realize this comes down to, games does a bad job overall of exposing development teams (and people often don't care) but it's interesting when people are like 'oh wanderstop is by the people who made the stanley parable" and it's like... well... no. It's written and directed by davey wreden, who co-wrote/co-designed the stanley parable. The entire rest of the devteam is unrelated. Stanley parable was in 2013 and we are not Galactic Cafe.
This is something one could easily check publicly; the staff listings for Stanley are up on mobygames, the team page for wanderstop is up on our site. I do this kind of crosschecking all the time out of idle curiosity - it's interesting to see where people came from, and where they ended up - but I guess the sacrifice we make for the Davey Wreden Fame Bump up front in wanderstop advertising is a lot of people assuming the rest is simply the Davey Wreden Crew. "Warren Spector, creator of deus ex, says to stop calling him the creator of deus ex" and all.
It's def surreal being on this side of things, as someone who's mostly worked with lesser known devs for most of my career. Even with gaslamp, people generally knew the game, not the names. And, you know, there's the flip side of, I have coworkers who don't want to get TOO known because they view that as a gateway to getting harrassed by gamers. But it def has been a good reminder of how binary our sense of cultural accreditation in this industry is.
's weird!
