Visionaries: Gaming, Media and the Internet Explained
Visionaries: Gaming, Media and the Internet Explained
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Best Of: How 'Among Us' Nearly Died Before It Made Millions
51 minutes Posted Dec 21, 2022 at 4:25 pm.
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Marcus Bromander is the co-founder of Innersloth and the co-creator of 'Among Us', the online multiplayer titles that became one of the most popular video games in 2020. But before its smash success, 'Among Us' nearly died, as it struggled to maintain a player base and Marcus and his team looked to move on. Yet thanks to the pandemic, 'Among Us' became a favorite of gamers isolated away from their friends. Now, 'Among Us' has made more than $100 million in sales and gone from life support to thriving with new development.

"We were basically done with it at the start of 2019. We had put out our third map. We had done enough bug fixes that the game functioned. We were like, 'alright, that's it.' Forest and Amy started prototyping other game ideas that got decently far along, but when 'Among Us' took off again, we were like what do we do? We should ride the wave."

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