Flip Wars Developer Over Fence Files For Bankruptcy

Amazing. Even with all this support from Nintendo it is not a success story.

Flip Wars was very boring. It's like they took a Mario Party minigame and made it into a full game.

R.I.P Over Fence

2012 - 2018

We hardly know ya.

That's a shame =0( I never did get round to picking up Flip Wars, but it reminds me of one of the multiplayer modes in Bomberman Generation on the Cube.

This just shows how difficult it is to be an indie game studio, even when you hear of all those success stories and especially of those that come from the Switch. Yet, the real situation is that many will unfortunate go the same way.

I hope those involved will find themselves new employment quickly.

I had high hopes for Flip Wars when I saw it during the first Switch Presentation. Thought it could be a new take on Bomberman and a great little online game and since it had Nintendo's backing, one that would always be easy to find opponents. Instead it released without the online mode, several bugs, and was released across regions at different dates, meaning by the time the online mode had been added it was practically impossible to find a single player online. While it's unfortunate for the developers themselves, going by their past releases their inevitable closure is of no loss to the industry.

Having to file bankruptcy for a debt as small as $19,000 shows how small time these devs were and how little success they've obviously had.

Oh, gosh...
Luckily, i had bought that game at last.
Well, pretty boring to be honest.

Any closure is a loss to the industry and this is people’s livelihoods and families that will be left with an uncertain future - it’s rather distasteful how many comment that it’s a positive thing....

This is sad news and less small developers and less choice is never a good thing

I wish all the staff well in finding employment.

Sorry to all those that lost their jobs. Hope they rebound quickly.

2 million yen hardly seems like a debt that should result in bankruptcy. One would think that sales of Flip Wars would have generated enough to pull them out of the red at least, or that Nintendo would have considered giving them a helping hand given that they had published (and publicised) their last title.

I don't know. Perhaps I'm just ignorant about such matters, but those numbers just seem a tad fishy to me.

Diddly-dang! Here's hoping all of them find jobs!

Oh.

Best of luck out there, Over Fence.

I've been wanting to pick this up. Does anyone still play it online?

$19,000? Is that all? Hey, Open Fence, if you need that money contact me.

Should've made a better game

I really hope this doesn’t affect any future Blaster Master stuff. I can’t even begin to describe how happy I was with the newest one.

That stinks. I have Flip Wars but never played it. When I got it and tried it, there seemed to be no single player and the online was dead. That debt stinks for an individual, but for a company or studio? There has to be a better way. Best of luck to the team.

These types of people do eventually find employment with other devs, it's just a matter of time. Hopefully they can join studios like Artplay and DICO to work on Bloodstained. You wanna make a splash with your games and Flip Wars does not sound like it made one.

Well even the mighty Switch couldn't save them . Still it's very sad when a game developing studio dies

Interesting to hear of a game failing on the Switch. The game did look a bit boring though, tbh.

I hope the people working their are able to find new work soon. It's always really sad when you hear about people loosing their jobs. I wasn't interested in flip wars, and from the sounds of it not many other people were ether.

This is very sad news. Should we Switch owners buy the game in masse so they don't go bankrupt?

If only 1,900 Switch owners buy the game they are save. Just saying!

19 grand?? They didn’t even put the Flip Wars game on sale! Seems little effort was made here to try and come up with the money to move forward.

This is very disappointing news.

@joey302 good point! How is it not on sale that's about the only way for a game that's been lost in the shuffle on Switch to get some attention

This game will leave the Switch soon, I guess.