{"id":93138,"date":"2019-05-07T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342216"},"modified":"2019-05-07T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:34:00","slug":"echo-developer-ultra-ultra-closes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/echo-developer-ultra-ultra-closes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo developer Ultra Ultra closes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>The Copenhagen-based developer Ultra Ultra has closed its doors less than two years after releasing its atmospheric sci-fi game <em>Echo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The team shared the news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theUltraUltra\/status\/1125687744443899905\">tweet<\/a>, noting that, while the studio has shut down, the movie&nbsp;based on <em>Echo<\/em> is still in the works and the game itself will remain up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re terribly sad to report that Ultra Ultra has ceased to exist,&#8221; reads a tweet from the team. \u201cWe are grateful to have had the chance to crystallize something truly from the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultra Ultra released <em>Echo<\/em> for PC and PlayStation 4 in late 2017 and just this January announced that the game would be adapted into a film at the hands of John Wick creator and writer&nbsp;Derek Kolstad. Between development and studio setup, the team spent around three years working on the game, something discussed by Ultra Ultra\u2019s Martin Emborg in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314766\/Road_to_the_IGF_ULTRA_ULTRAs_Echo.php\">interview<\/a> following their IGF nomination last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: The Copenhagen-based developer Ultra Ultra has closed its doors less than two years after releasing its atmospheric sci-fi game Echo. The team shared the news in a tweet, noting that, while the studio has shut down, the movie&nbsp;based on Echo is still in the works and the game itself will remain up for sale. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93138","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\/93138","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=93138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}