{"id":127943,"date":"2022-09-08T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137329"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:30:00","slug":"beast-breaker-studio-vodeo-games-runs-out-of-funds-and-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/beast-breaker-studio-vodeo-games-runs-out-of-funds-and-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Beast Breaker Studio &#8216;Vodeo Games&#8217; Runs Out Of Funds And Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14563591c702d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14563591c702d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Beast Breaker\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14563591c702d\/beast-breaker.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTU2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"556\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14563591c702d\/beast-breaker.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Beast Breaker\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Vodeo Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vodeo Games, the developer behind the turn-based RPG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/beast_breaker\">Beast Breaker<\/a>, has announced that it will be shutting down after failing to secure the necessary funds to keep its team together.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made via a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VodeoGames\/status\/1567581119608156161\">Twitter post<\/a> yesterday evening at 7:30pm BST, with Vodeo Games stating that &#8220;despite a year of avid efforts, we&#8217;ve been unable to secure funding for our next project from publishers and investors&#8221; and that &#8220;there is simply no Vodeo without our incredible team&#8221;. It goes on to state that the studio&#8217;s final efforts will go into securing a Steam release for Beast Breaker in the hope that this will continue to support the team members as they go their separate ways.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGxD6iEu8g\">pic.twitter.com\/qGxD6iEu8g<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Vodeo Games (@VodeoGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VodeoGames\/status\/1567581119608156161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Vodeo Games is noted for previously becoming the first certified game studio union in North America back in December 2021, dubbed as Vodeo Workers United. The union&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vodeoworkers\/status\/1567583503377731588\">Twitter page<\/a> acknowledged the studio&#8217;s closure, stating that it was in the process of bargaining, but had decided to halt this after recognising that the studio was no longer financially viable.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vodeo Games has announced that it has closed its doors. Vodeo Workers United (CODE-CWA) were in the process of collective bargaining but had not yet reached an agreement when it became clear the studio was no longer financially viable. Therefore we decided to halt bargaining.<\/span>\u2014 Vodeo Workers United (@vodeoworkers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vodeoworkers\/status\/1567583503377731588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad conclusion and certainly demonstrates just how fickle the games industry can be, particularly for smaller developers. As for Beast Breaker itself, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/beast-breaker\">reviewed the game back in October 2021<\/a> and awarded it a stellar 9\/10, stating that while the game &#8220;may be small, it proves to be exceedingly effective at what it sets out to do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Nintendo Life, we wish each and every team member at Vodeo Games the very best of luck in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"SZhqedzllLE\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of the closure of Vodeo Games? Have you played Beast Breaker yet? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Vodeo Games Vodeo Games, the developer behind the turn-based RPG Beast Breaker, has announced that it will be shutting down after failing to secure the necessary funds to keep its team together. The announcement was made via a Twitter post yesterday evening at 7:30pm BST, with Vodeo Games stating that &#8220;despite a year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127943","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=127943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}