Duncan Naoki Drummond and Paul Morse, co-founders of Risk of Rain 2 developer Hopoo Games, have announced that they are shuttering the studio and moving to Valve. As a result, the studio’s unannounced title, Snail, will cease production.
The news was confirmed on the Hopoo X account with the following statement:
Today, we have an exciting update. Duncan and Paul, alongside many other talented members at Hopoo Games, will now be working on game development directly at Valve Software. We’re incredibly grateful to Valve for their partnerships in the last decade, and are excited to continue working on their awesome titles.
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However, this does mean that we are stopping production on our unannounced game, ‘Snail.’ It’s been an exciting and transformative 12 years. We feel lucky for the opportunities we’ve had, and deeply appreciate both our team and fans that have supported us and our games. We love making games – and will continue to do so, for years to come. We’re excited to be working side-by-side with the talented people at Valve. But for now, sleep tight, Hopoo Games.
Valve is busy with hero shooter Deadlock, although it has been heavily rumoured the company is also working on something Half-Life related. Dataminers recently uncovered evidence of Half-Life 3 being in production from the leaked Project White Sands, but nothing official has been announced.
[Source – PCGamesN]