{"id":109689,"date":"2020-02-27T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/358867"},"modified":"2020-02-27T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:22:00","slug":"blastlands-team-combat-dev-strange-quest-is-closing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/blastlands-team-combat-dev-strange-quest-is-closing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Blastlands: Team Combat dev Strange Quest is closing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Quest, the Swedish developer behind mobile games like <em>Go-Go Grenade<\/em>, is closing its doors after 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Strange Quest CEO Adam Schaub shared the unfortunate news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/activity-6638397984524550144-S0gO\/\">LinkedIn post<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/72698\/strange-quest-shutting-down\/\">via&nbsp;Pocket Gamer<\/a>), saying that leadership was left with no choice after efforts to secure funding fell through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recently released and tested our fourth game which showed really promising metrics but unfortunately it was too little too late and our runway has come to an end,\u201d writes Schaub. \u201cDespite massive efforts to craft a funding solution that would enable us to continue we have now arrived at the point where I don\u2019t have any other choice but to close our doors and shut down operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Quest, the Swedish developer behind mobile games like Go-Go Grenade, is closing its doors after 3 years. Strange Quest CEO Adam Schaub shared the unfortunate news in a LinkedIn post (via&nbsp;Pocket Gamer), saying that leadership was left with no choice after efforts to secure funding fell through. \u201cWe recently released and tested our fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}