Bounden developer Game Oven closes in April

[Updated with quotes: 12:12 pm] Despite brand-new nominations in two separate award shows this year, Dutch developer Game Oven will close its doors in April.

Game Oven is best known for its unique mobile games that have gameplay going beyond the screen. Over the three-and-a-half years it has been in business, Game Oven has found that the pressures of supporting the studio and its games made it difficult to maintain artistic freedom despite seeing more than 2.5 million downloads for its paid and free apps. In a blog post today, designer Adriaan de Jongh says that the studio is now at a point where it needs another vision for a new game but doesn’t have the financial resources to find or make one.

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