Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.
Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-closes-night-school-moonloot
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-closes-night-school-moonloot
Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.
12 Comments
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 25d
any studio that get acquired these days, instantly dies in my eyes because it's never acquired by someone who cares
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 25d
That's not true... me failing in finding examples well ... I gotta go now, bye.
dudeface@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 25d
Or perhaps they promise the purchasing company something they cannot deliver on time and companies like Netflix are less understanding to bloating budgets
silver@das-eck.haus · 2 pts · 24d
It wouldn't surprise me. Place like Netflix decides to invest in gaming without having expertise.. Then when they see the inevitable delays that are so common with game releases, they panic
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 25d
The 6 hour GTA 6 deal was expensive. They have to make cuts somewhere else. 1 trailer in exchange for 2 studio closures... Man these closures in general, if they at least could go independent or sold rather than closing. This industry is so eff-upped.
ScoobyDoo27@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 25d
Fuck Netflix. Night school made good games.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 11 pts · 25d
Ah yes from their history I can see how it would be impossible for them to pivot from story based ges to party, fits, and uh, story based games.
Carighan@piefed.world · 14 pts · 25d
They are competent, so that naturally just failed to align with Netflix's business principles.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
I think the real reason is nobody plays Netflix games. Vast majority of people don't even know they exist; and those who do often don't have a device that can run them.
sealhaslupus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
creatives who are successful want more money to fund bigger projects and increase the scope of their art.
capitalists want studios to make money to line their pockets at the expense of creativity and eventually kill them when the games become just another vector to funnel cash to the wrong places.
Carighan@piefed.world · 4 pts · 25d
I wish their games were more readily playable. :<
I got three Android TVs, including a TCL 75" I just bought last year. I can't play Netflix Games on any of them. The only device I can do that on is an old Google dongle. Wild.
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 24d
The goal of the guys who owned the studios was to make a bag selling to a larger company. They knew what that meant when they did it. Netflix is corpo, doing what it does naturally. Blame the cunts who sold.