Bandai Namco subsidiary and Unknown 9: Awakening developer Reflector Entertainment has canceled an in-development project and laid off a number of staff following what it calls the "failure" of its first game.
In a LinkedIn post, Reflector CEO Herve Hoerdt says he's "made the decision not to greenlight further work" on a project that was in the "conceptualization phase", thus "terminating this development line". In layman's terms, that effectively seems to mean he's canceled an ongoing development project.
Hoerdt puts the cancellation down to the "failure" of Reflector's "ambitious and courageous first project", which he describes as a "new IP with a rich transmedia universe". He is, of course, referring to Unknown 9: Awakening, which is Reflector's first (and, to date, only) game.
The CEO goes on to admit that Unknown 9: Awakening "didn't come near the company expectations" with regards to sales performance, and that the world of the game doesn't "warrant any further exploration" as a result.
He says that the canceled project continuing "would not have been sustainable" for Reflector, but that it will result in "redundancies", although he doesn't state how many.
Going forward, Hoerdt says Reflector will work on a single project at a...
