Indie Studio Shadowy Flag shuts down following “dialog breakdown” with writer

French indie Studio Shadowy Flag has shut down, declaring monetary damage.

In a assertion posted to Steam, the studio acknowledged that following a dispute with its writer, it had been “exploring smaller, secondary tasks,” nonetheless the previous couple of months grasp “dried up all of [its] funding,” most important to the “imminent closure” of the studio, as really helpful by French legal guidelines.

The workforce acknowledged that whereas it’d perhaps nicely perhaps no longer “get into the specifics of our contract with our writer,” it failed to attain the Orphan Age IP “in a manner that may enable us to buy it to a different writer,” and “the market can be closely dried up for indie publishing.”

“In the end, we look like one other casualty of the present downturn within the online game trade,” the studio acknowledged.

“Regardless of the truth that we would perhaps re-glean publishing rights, it’d perhaps nicely perhaps be an extremely refined, extended job to attain anyone launch to supporting our enterprise.

“It’s attainable that growth will proceed below our writer, however presently, that’s totally out of our palms.”

Shadowy Flag acknowledged that as a result of the cash contributed by crowdfunding campaigns “had lengthy since been spent,” it’d perhaps nicely perhaps no longer return monies to backers, however did hope to finally