Justin Carter
2024-08-07 12:18:59
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Shipyard Games, a Finnish developer known for the mobile game Go City, quietly closed its doors after a seven-year run.
Per PocketGamer, the studio had revealed its end back in May through its Discord. At the time, co-founder/CEO Andreas Wedenberg called it a “critical” situation at the company where it ran out of money and its current investor ended support.
That investor would be Supercell, who put a $2.9 million minority stake into the Helsinki developer back in 2017. At the time, Shipyard had only been a few months old, and it’s unclear when or why Supercell put its wallet away.
Shipyard’s most recent (and final) release was Wizards & Kingdoms Go, which Wedenberg acknowledged really only had “1-2 weeks” worth of content in its early state. With the studio gone, it’ll receive no more updates and eventually go offline.
“We sincerely appreciate so much all of your help. […] We are very sorry we could not finish the game you all deserve,” he concluded, “but unfortunately often dreams need money to become true, and we ran out of it.”
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