A developer has turned to her followers with a curious request: she wants you to illegally download the game she has been working on for years.
What kind of request is that? Anisa Sanusi is an English game developer who worked as a UI/UX designer for the British development studio Roll7 until 2022. During this time, she worked on Rollerdrome, an action-packed single-player game that mixes tricky skating with shooter gameplay.
On X.com (formerly Twitter), Sanusi now declares that Rollerdrome is her favorite game she has worked on. She then makes a curious request to her followers: “Please pirate it, because none of us work for the company that owns it anymore.”
Here you can see a trailer for Rollerdrome:
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Developer doesn’t want suit wearers to earn money
What’s the deal with the suit wearers? Roll7 was acquired by Take-Two in 2021. This was followed in May 2024 by a report from Bloomberg and industry insider Jason Schreier stating that Take-Two was closing the development studio Roll7.
In her tweet, Sanusi refers to the reported closure of the studio. Although she had already left the studio in 2022 after Rollerdrome was finished, she still cares about the people behind the games. She is not interested in the money and does not want suit-wearing people to profit from the game while her friends and former colleagues lose their jobs:
Two years after I left, the studio I loved working at no longer exists and my friends and former colleagues have been laid off, so why would I want the suits who made that decision to continue to profit when no one on the team is there anymore? I’m not in it for the money.
Anisa Sanusi via X.com
Her opinion on buying Rollerdrome has changed since 2022. When Roll7 still existed and her former colleagues still worked for the studio, she advised players on X.com to buy the game – even though she herself no longer worked for the studio. She believed the team had created something great and players should experience it.
What kind of game is Rollerdrome? Rollerdrome is a mix of a skateboarding game and a shooter. You race through an arena on your skateboard and do tricks – always with a weapon in your hand.
Not only do you have to look stylish on your board, you also have to blow away various opponents. You get new ammunition for cool tricks.
On Steam, Rollerdrome has a 93% positive rating with almost 1,300 reviews. Nevertheless, the single-player title did not make it onto our list of the best shooters for PC and consoles. You can see which 25 games are on the list on MeinMMO: The 25 best shooters of 2024 – These PvP and PvE games impress with their gameplay