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Raccoon Logic’s core team has worked together on and off for 20 years – at triple-A studios, as Typhoon Studios, and most recently within Google Stadia’s short-lived internal development team. What keeps them from breaking apart is a sense of safety and support. “We made sure that everyone [at Typhoon] got paid out when we sold to Google,” Alex Hutchinson says. “The entirety of our team had ownership in the company, and that’s true again for Raccoon Logic.” By the same token, the studio’s leaders negotiated “better than expected” Google severance packages for staff who had been part of Typhoon’s acquisition little more than a year earlier. “It just creates more trust,” studio head Reid Schneider says. “And that’s what enables you to keep good people.”