Helsinki cell developer Playnest is closing down.
“Now we have unhappy information to share: Playnest won’t proceed its operations,” the studio stated in a LinkedIn post.
Playnest was based in late 2022 as Marvel Hive, with the intention of constructing a platform for interconnected cell video games. Over the previous 4 years, it revealed 12 video games, labored on a number of variations of a metagame shared throughout them, created over 30 prototypes and ran greater than 300 person acquisition campaigns.
The studio additionally developed an SDK for exterior builders, and ran a pilot programme to check opening its platform as much as different studios.
“We had many smaller successes alongside the best way and got here near a breakthrough on a few events,” stated Playnest. “Sadly, a mix of things, some past our management, prevented us from in the end getting there.”
The studio hasn’t stated what number of workers are affected.
When we first covered Wonder Hive in February 2023, its founding staff included Petri Räsänen (Huuuge Video games, Significantly), Joonas Palmgren (Futureplay, Wooga, Rovio), Alexander Häußler (Wooga, Significantly), Ilona Lindholm (Rovio), Jesse Sevon and Tero Paavolainen.