--- title: "People want to play arcade racers again" – How the... description: Fiona Sperry, former head of Burnout maker Criterion, recounts how Three Fields Entertainment survived a company-wide redundancy notice in December by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/people-want-to-play-arcade-racers-again-how-the-developer-of-wreckreation-went-from-a-company-wi-273t3rhgg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "People want to play arcade racers again" – How the developer of Wreckreation went from a company-wide redundancy notice to working on a sequel | daily.dev og:description: Fiona Sperry, former head of Burnout maker Criterion, recounts how Three Fields Entertainment survived a company-wide redundancy notice in December by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/people-want-to-play-arcade-racers-again-how-the-developer-of-wreckreation-went-from-a-company-wi-273t3rhgg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/273T3RhGG.png og:image:alt: "People want to play arcade racers again" – How the developer of Wreckreation went from a company-wide redundancy notice to working on a sequel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # "People want to play arcade racers again" – How the developer of Wreckreation went from a company-wide redundancy notice to working on a sequel **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Fiona Sperry, former head of Burnout maker Criterion, recounts how Three Fields Entertainment survived a company-wide redundancy notice in December by launching a Patreon, delivering 18 updates to Wreckreation, and ultimately announcing a sequel. The sequel, Wreckreation 2, is being developed under a new studio called When Tides Turn — with the IP transferred between companies — funded by Patreon backers, a UK Games Fund grant, and angel investors. Sperry argues the arcade racing genre still has a viable audience for small, lean teams, and describes a shift to open development using Steam playtests to incorporate player feedback from the earliest stages of production. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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