We covered how Hello Games was affected by the recent flood quite a bit over the holidays, and now the Joe Danger and No Man’s Sky developer has offered up a status update about the situation:
So… our office flooded late on Christmas Eve. It was just one of those unlucky things, but it wiped out pretty much everything in there. There were exceptional storms which meant a large part of Guildford flooded one way or other. For us, an underground car park next door filled with water, then burst, so it all happened real sudden.
We lost all our PCs, laptops, equipment, furniture, dev-kits, work in the blink of an eye, and our insurer (and those of those around us) seem like we won’t be covered, or at least responsibility is unclear. I don’t want to say out loud the value of what we lost, it’s horrible. It would probably fund a small game :(.
The good news is that people have been so so so nice. So genuinely overwhelmingly supportive that actually I don’t know what to say.
With some members of Hello Games now working in a “new temporary” location, and others from home, they’re “back, full speed!” The plan for the next few months is to either be back in a new office, or rebuild the old one.
Shifting focus to No Man’s Sky, their stance on a Kickstarter was detailed:
I like Kickstarter, and I love what it stands for (all my Xmas presents were Kickstarter pledges). Financially I guess it’d probably be a really good time for us to do one, and so many people have suggested it. I just don’t think it’s the right thing for No Man’s Sky right now though, and we’d probably rather not eat than do the wrong thing for this game.
If people buy our Joe Danger games then that does support us. We’d rather you buy Joe Danger because you want to play them though… they are real good games :).
Addressing the possibility of a delay for No Man’s Sky due to the flood, they said:
We won’t let that happen!
At times recently I’ve wanted to be depressed, to wallow, but it’s impossible surrounded by this team. They are literally unstoppable. If we’ve lost some work, we’ll make up the time. We’ll steal dev-kits. We’ll work on a boat. Whatever it takes (not actual stealing… maybe :)).
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