News: 'Blackstar' Gets CanceledPosted on Saturday, April 26 @ 18:28:01 BST |
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 Spacetime Studios announced that its MMO project Blackstar has been canceled by NCSoft, and as a result the Texas based developer had to let go 12 staff members. Spacetime Studios gives no reason why it was canceled by stated that it has a complete MMO engine w/ networking infrastructure, tools suite, and next-gen rendering engine, and is dedicated to the IP.
Blackstar is a unique space combat MMO of fast shooting action coupled with traditional RPG combat, advancement, and adventure.
For two years this has been in good times but we want to put out a message to the community before the rumors start.
Our project has been cancelled by the current publisher. Regardless of how you look at it, we won’t be entering production in the immediate future, so we are retrenching and unfortunately had to let 12 folks go. There are always wild rumors at a time like this so we wanted to be as specific as possible to the number and circumstance. All 12 employees released were given extended benefits, severance and will be supplied letters of recommendation. These were good folks and we are not happy about it. We’ll do anything we can to help them land somewhere else.
If you are a developer and are looking for good folks, drop us a line at jobs@spacetimestudios.com.
Blackstar was our primary project and we have a complete MMO engine w/ networking infrastructure, tools suite, and next-gen rendering engine. The company remains extremely committed to the IP and once all mutual obligations have been completed between the publisher and ourselves we intend to explore every possible avenue to see that our team’s collective vision come to fruition.
Features :
* Fly your spaceship to exotic locations, blasting through cunning enemies and dreadful space creatures.
* Fight your character avatar on mysterious planets, go aboard space stations, and force your way onto enemy ships.
* Live as one of four races, ranging from heroic humans to killer robots to savage monsters to beautiful aliens in an epic science-fiction universe.
We want to stress that there are no bad feelings with NCSoft. There is a tremendous amount of mutual respect between our companies. They have conducted themselves with honor and integrity, and we would work with them again in an instant.
We are still here, stable and strong, and running a little bit lighter while we figure out our next move. What does not kill us makes us stronger said the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. That may be true, but it isn’t pleasant. Wish us luck and good fortune.
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Posted on Saturday, April 26 @ 18:28:01 BST |
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