Tabula Rasa GDC Preview
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Ultimately, Garriott had an unsavory task to perform: to let go of much of the team in order to give the studio a much-needed sense of balance. Tabula Rasa needed fewer chefs and more cooks, in a manner of speaking, not to mention a radical facelift. The Tabula Rasa team that exists today is the product of a dramatic amount of pruning: roughly 20 percent of its original team was replaced. In terms of game assets, the numbers are more dramatic; 75 percent of its code base was scrapped, and its art assets have been redone entirely. One is tempted to believe that the game today only shares the name with its previous iteration, but it's clear that some core philosophical ideals have been retained.
