Arkedo Studio has announced that they will be disbanded, giving severance to their employees. Creative director Aurelien Regard explained that the company’s Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit was too big for the developer and that he and co-founder Camille Guermonprez wanted to work on different projects.
“Arkedo, the company, is still here. But no one’s employed anymore. No more games are produced either,” said creative director Aurelien Regard on his personal blog. “Arkedo hasn’t closed down and is not bankrupt, going into administration or whatever big word, as it is managed properly. It is interesting for the structure to still be here as after Hell Yeah!, we’ve made two small games which are finished but you’re not aware of them yet. We hope to release them soon and it should be fine on this side.”
“The game has a lot of things we love, but also things we regret. Because we didn’t have enough time, or experience, and we reached our limits. It’s no big deal, but one needs to learn something out of it,” said Regard of Hell Yeah!, adding, “Knowing that our long-term objectives would both drive us away from Arkedo, it didn’t make sense to take financial risks again. Within a less hostile economical context, Arkedo would probably still be here, but this context just [sped up] the end of the studio by a couple of years.”
Source: Polygon.com
