No Man’s Sky and Joe Danger Developer Hello Games “Totally Flooded”, "Everything in the Office Lost"
Hello Games, the developer of the lovable Joe Danger series and upcoming sci-fi epic No Man’s Sky, has been hit by flooding, destroying everything in the indie developer’s office. - PSLS
(Dev, Hello Games, No Man's Sky, PC, PS4, Xbox One)
And it ain't sad... It's unfortunate. No lives were lost these developers could walk into any studio and get a job.
Think about the families who have ah loved ones killed on Christmas Day that's a sad story. Some business getting flooded is nothing to shead a tear over
If I were Sony, I would be paying for professional data recovery on those hard drives. That's a whole lot of time and effort down the drain. It has to be worth the price of data recovery.
oh damn, saw the pics from guilford and... i've never seen it flood there before and when I'm not at uni I go there all the time... This is such a shame.
That's pretty wierd, I thought the basic rule when working as a dev is always having an external hard drive and sync it every day with the main drive before leaving.
Agreed, you'd have to be totally insane to pump so many hours of hard work into something and not have it backed up at least once. Even if they lost all their work they seem to be a very talented bunch and very passionate about their games, so as long as no harm came to the devs its all good imo. Good luck to them whatever happens.
They probably did, but it was probably locked away at the office or something over xmas and flooding.... would probably have gotten all that stuff too-don't forget they are a small like 15 man team (I think) :/ might even be smaller...
Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo should help them fund this game or something. It sucks to hear this happening to a four man/woman team. Hopefully they didn't lose any valuable data and they had back ups.
Would love it if some big publisher/developer helps them out though, especially since Christmas is tomorrow...Help them out!!!
Excuse? Having 2 laptops stolen when not properly prepared is a hell of a lot different to having your entire office engulfed by water in a random act of nature.
Pretty sure they have backups or they'd likely have said something on twitter.
Neither actually happened? Are you insane? The Zomboid guys caught back up on the lost time as quickly as they could and massive chunks of Guildford ARE flooded, including where Hello Games are based. It takes a tiny amount of research to confirm that.
Holy crap. People have no grasp on reality at all. How is it easier for people to believe foul play or conspiracy when a well documented event has just taken place?
krontaar is totally right, this "flood" story was concocted by these developers in order to not make their game. We all know that you can't just stop making a game, you have to have an elaborate cover story to hide the fact that you can't make the game you were making. I mean duh!
Bet their celebrating now that they don't have to make a game people had interest in. Because...you know...that's what you do...right? Its not like they could have completed work on a concept that is, in reality, quite a few years old at this point.
Living near guilford, and having seen the photo's of whats happened which is pretty much unprecedented aswell-I doubt they are lying we're talking anywhere even remotely near the river is probably at least 3-5ft under water which is ALOT..... In some photo's the bridges which are raised considerably higher than the river can't be seen anymore save for the tops of the barriers... so this really isn't their fault bar that they whould ideally hve had some kind of backup although depending on how complex the stuff was (seeing as they were going to use procedually generated content) it might well have been backed up but just kept on site (a mistake however in an area that hasn't seriously flooded to this extent to my knowledge certainly in living memory if not longer...)
They didn't lose all their work. Even in the case of Zomboid thry just reverted to an earlier versuon - it wasn't 100% gone. Zomboid is OUT (early access, much more developed than the version they lost.) I was just playing it! And NMS is almost certainly has no problems at all other than a short period of developer distraction. They have backups. Jeez.
Seriously? Are you trolling? Please tell me you're trolling!
You're seriously saying they - after specifically seeking publicity for a game that nobody knew about until VGX.. Got cold feet and were looking for some way out of the responsibility - so they decided to flush thousands of man hours down the toilet because.. Reasons. Then they saw that their neighbourhood was flooded and threw all their hardware in? The perfect plan!!!
Or are you accusing them of using it as an excuse to just lie about it despite the fact that the neighbourhood was definitely 100% verifiably flooded? Are developers immune to flooding now?
Reminds me of when a power outage occurs in Game Dev Story lol. I got mad when that happened can imagine something like that happening in real life. Hope the game is not hit hard
WHAT!?! That's devastating :( sure they can rebuild the game, but that doesn't change the fact they've probably lost thousands of man hours into their work and all their personal data has probably been lost as well. Poor guys, hopefully they start a kickstarter or something to raise funds to stay financially afloat and keep the project going. Probably one of the most promising upcoming developers. No Man's Land will make them huge if it lives up to what we saw at VGX. I wonder if that Robert guy from Star Citizen can help gather his backers to help out these guys. Considering he has a huge community of PC space gaming enthusiasts, I wouldn't be surprised if they gave a helping hand.
If they had a kickstarter I would not hesitate to give up a hundred or two to them and I know a few people who would at least give a hundred. Hopefully they backed it up.
I don't know you think maybe these guys over promised on the game and couldn't deliver so they decided to "flood" their studio??
I know, I know I thought I hit you all with some illuminati, conspiracy for the holiday season.
I really, really hope they have this game backed up somewhere on something. And yes I agree with a poster above, Sony/Nintendo/MS should be racing to these guys rescue.
Guildford was definitely partially flooded. Im more concerned for the neighbouring families (as im sure they are too).. Im pretty sure they'll have backup.
You're are an idiot maniacmayhem. Most of Kent is flooded right now. You know the thing t=you are on called 'the internet'?. It allows you to look stuff like this up and not look like an absolute numpty conspiracy theorist.
England was hit by a pretty severe storm and a lot of people have had trouble. Most of my fencing is down from it. They're not making it up, how is it suspect?
Most of the uk has been hit. Wales, Scotland and England. A village not more than 3 miles from where I live has flooded, all the storm drainage has overflowed due to the sheer amount of precipitation we've had these last few days. Absolute nightmare before Christmas, but people are helping each other, as bad as it is, times like these when you realise that communities are there for each other.
OT : I'm sure they had external backups or the twitter post would have mentioned the fact that they had lost everything.
Yeah sorry, I should have mentioned the UK as a whole really, I just said about England because of where Hello Games was based, but everywhere has been hit badly.
hope sony/ms and nintendo along with other publishers team up and provide some funding. That way the game could be co-published and be on every platform
Man, i love their game so i knew their pain when flooding destroyed your stuff / property. Because in my country, flooding is a yearly event. It's really really sucks to clean up your house every single f*kin year when the floods came. I hated my government too who always gives empty promise about prevent this disaster, but turns out they did nothing :(
So now this game will take 5 years to come out instead of 4. No biggie. I'm not sure why people are so excited about this game when zero actual gameplay was shown.
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And it ain't sad... It's unfortunate. No lives were lost these developers could walk into any studio and get a job.
Think about the families who have ah loved ones killed on Christmas Day that's a sad story. Some business getting flooded is nothing to shead a tear over
On topic this is VERY sad news, I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's not all a total loss
Not cool
This is the type of thing that should happen to Superman 64, not this game.
Just hope they had it backed up or something, its sad when company's gets it data completely wiped.
Would love it if some big publisher/developer helps them out though, especially since Christmas is tomorrow...Help them out!!!
Sucks for Hello games though, on Christmas Eve this happens to them =(
Such a shame,the best of VGX went down the drain ... :(
Pretty sure they have backups or they'd likely have said something on twitter.
Holy crap. People have no grasp on reality at all. How is it easier for people to believe foul play or conspiracy when a well documented event has just taken place?
Bet their celebrating now that they don't have to make a game people had interest in. Because...you know...that's what you do...right? Its not like they could have completed work on a concept that is, in reality, quite a few years old at this point.
Step 1. Process the information as you read it.
Step 2. Translate it into shenanigans worth snarking about.
Step 3. LIZARD PEOPLE
(Really, Krontaar? Really?)
Seriously? Are you trolling? Please tell me you're trolling!
You're seriously saying they - after specifically seeking publicity for a game that nobody knew about until VGX.. Got cold feet and were looking for some way out of the responsibility - so they decided to flush thousands of man hours down the toilet because.. Reasons. Then they saw that their neighbourhood was flooded and threw all their hardware in? The perfect plan!!!
Or are you accusing them of using it as an excuse to just lie about it despite the fact that the neighbourhood was definitely 100% verifiably flooded? Are developers immune to flooding now?
There are no words for how stupid that is.
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I don't know you think maybe these guys over promised on the game and couldn't deliver so they decided to "flood" their studio??
I know, I know I thought I hit you all with some illuminati, conspiracy for the holiday season.
I really, really hope they have this game backed up somewhere on something. And yes I agree with a poster above, Sony/Nintendo/MS should be racing to these guys rescue.
afterwards it becomes second nature to save or risk losing everything it's crazy to think these guys did all that and didn't have a backup
http://www.guildford-dragon...
A shitty xmas for them though. :(
"I know, I know I thought I hit you all with some illuminati, conspiracy for the holiday season."
Which was followed by "I hope they have the game backed up," meaning I know what happened.
Take the bright holiday stick out your arse and cheer up mate or bloke or whatever you all say out there.
OT : I'm sure they had external backups or the twitter post would have mentioned the fact that they had lost everything.
They didn't even say they don't have backup. Chances are they DO have backup.
All they showed was gameplay.
That was all gameplay. Look at a high-res video and look at the jaggies on the cockpit before he gets in. That was definitely gameplay.