Ship Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive has laid off its crew on account of a scarcity of publishing choices for its forthcoming tasks, however vows to rebuild in future to proceed the legacy of its video games.
The information was revealed in a prolonged assertion on social media web site X from CEO Koen Deetman and managing director Paul Deetman.
“Heartbroken, we have needed to lay off our crew at KeokeN due to nothing substantial materialising straight after our go to to GDC,” the assertion reads. “We have sadly exhausted all our potential choices for publishing, work for rent, and co-development.”
Based on a previous post from March, the studio was engaged on 5 tasks and was looking for funding companions. It could seem no such funding has been discovered.
“Paul and I are closely beat, however removed from overwhelmed,” continues the assertion. “It is our private mission to rebuild KeokeN brick by brick like we have completed earlier than, within the title of our folks and to proceed the legacy of our video games.”
The pair additionally said their want for the crew to search out new positions elsewhere within the trade, and famous the significance of the group round its video games.
“It has turn into abundantly clear that what’s most essential to us and our crew is you, our group,” reads the assertion. “You play our video games, you make our video games shine, you make us really feel particular as you imagine in us. You’ve confirmed up persistently in each the nice and the dangerous occasions, from our debut Kickstarter up to now to our current video asking for assist. Due to you, we have reached tens of millions of individuals. We’ve got all the time wanted you and proceed to take action.”
The studio’s subsequent recreation shall be Ship Us House, which can quickly obtain a Kickstarter for monetary assist.
Ship Us Mars was launched in February final 12 months, revealed by Frontier’s now-defunct publishing label Frontier Foundry.
In a current report on layoffs at Frontier, the label was described as a monetary misadventure that was dropped in June 2023 on account of “disappointing monetary efficiency and elevated competitors amongst third-party publishers”.
