The builders of sci-fi action-adventure Ship Us Mars have laid off all their employees. The information was introduced by KeokeN Interactive’s management in an announcement by which they state they’ve “exhausted all our attainable choices” of discovering funding for a brand new mission. In addition they say they plan to rebuild the corporate.
“Heartbroken, we have needed to lay off our group at KeokeN due to nothing substantial materializing instantly after our go to to GDC. We’ve sadly exhausted all our attainable choices for publishing, work for rent, and co-development,” begins a statement shared on X by CEO Koen Deetman and managing director Paul Deetman.
“It’s our utmost precedence to ensure our beautiful group finds a brand new house some place else, so you probably have any positions out there in Programming, Tech Artwork, Porting, Degree Design, Audio, Animation, Manufacturing, Workplace Administration, contact us, in order that we are able to introduce you to the easiest individuals who have been on the coronary heart of KeokeN over the previous 10 years.
“Paul and I are closely beat, however removed from crushed. It’s our private mission to rebuild KeokeN brick by brick like we’ve performed earlier than, within the title of our individuals and to proceed the legacy of our video games.”
The assertion concludes by saying that they “getting ready a Kickstarter quickly for our much-anticipated Ship Us House.”
KeokeN launched Ship Us The Moon in 2018 and its sequel Ship Us Mars final yr. Katharine praised its marriage of planet-sized issues with gripping interpersonal drama, however discovered fault with its “rote puzzles” in her Ship Us Mars overview. The sport was printed by Frontier Foundry, the publishing arm of Frontier Builders which skilled its personal layoffs late final yr. It has been a horrible two years within the video games trade usually for layoffs.
