Indie Dev Ivy Highway Closes Up Store As Funding Ops Dry Up

Indie developer, Ivy Highway, has hit a snag — they’ll’t get funding. The studio, greatest recognized for the current cozy sport, Wanderstop, or maybe as a result of it’s spearheaded by The Stanley Parable maker, Davey Wreden, is closing efficient tomorrow.

In an open letter to their neighborhood, they expressed how they couldn’t discover funding for his or her subsequent sport, a automotive fight title referred to as Engine Angel. They expressed how they tried to buy the sport round, just for it to go nowhere. That they had earlier laid off 5 workers members to sluggish the ache right here, but it surely appears it was certain to occur.

“Whereas we tried to buy the idea round and discover a publishing companion, sadly we weren’t capable of land a deal. It’s a very robust time for elevating sport funds, so whereas we weren’t essentially shocked, we’re disillusioned that we received’t have the ability to deliver Engine Angel to life collectively as a crew.”

Wanderstop nonetheless has one thing up its sleeve, with Annapurna Interactive vowing to see the ultimate part of the sport by alongside taking over any bugs and suggestions and persevering with the sport’s life on the prevailing platforms it’s out there on.

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