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The studio plans to tie leadership compensation to employee success, share profits with external talent including voice and mocap actors, and avoid the live service model. Its debut game will feature an online component built on P2P architecture for community-sustained play. If the studio closes, its assets and code will become open source by default, and Bowling intends to publish all legal frameworks publicly so others can replicate the model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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