Elixir Studios Closes Its Doors

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 28, 2005 @05:25AM from the line-them-up-and-knock-them-down dept.

Another development studio has closed up shop, with British company Elixir laying off staff and closing down development. Elixir has published two titles, the political sim Republic and the mad scientist strategy title Evil Genius. The cancellation of an upcoming project forced the company to make a hard decision. From the article: "I'm very proud of what all the staff at Elixir have achieved and the games we produced...We gave it everything we had but ultimately it wasn't quite enough. It seems that today's games industry no longer has room for small independent developers wanting to work on innovative and original ideas. Perhaps there is no longer any need for them."

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Excuses Excuses by knight37 · 2005-04-28 08:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why is it that every developer that goes out of business is dying because of some quirk in the industry? Bleh. Lets call it like it is. Their games weren't fun enough to enough people, period. Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen. What's difficult is making those ideas into a appealing and FUN game.

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