Hashtag Dungeon - Removal From Steam
Hello Hashtag Dungeoneers, This is an important announcement letting you know that we are currently in the process of having Hashtag Dungeon removed from Steam, as we are in the process of closing down Hitpoint Games as a company. Hashtag Dungeon was a university project we worke
Hello Hashtag Dungeoneers,
This is an important announcement letting you know that we are currently in the process of having Hashtag Dungeon removed from Steam, as we are in the process of closing down Hitpoint Games as a company.
Hashtag Dungeon was a university project we worked on in our third year and we put a lot of love into it. We never expected it to make more than $100 but we surpassed that within the first few days on Steam. We learnt a lot during development and are really happy with what we made as students.
We've both gotten full time jobs since we left university and it leaves us with very little time to work on anything in our spare time, all the big plans we had to make videogames have kinda been left by the wayside because of the reality that there are only enough hours in the day. Running a business on the side is particularly hard... especially when it doesn't make any money anymore. Working in different locations in the UK and in different industries has also left us in a position where we hardly ever see each other anymore too.
It also seems that over the past year (at some point) Twitter changed its API in such a way that the game no longer works. We tried to fix it, but had no luck. The offline elements of the game should still work, but all the online elements are broken, and we're not sure we'll ever be able to get them into a state where they do work without time we don't have.
If we could continue to support the game forever, we would, but it turns out that once you leave university you get a lot of responsibilities on your plate and neither of us can continue to spin this plate as well as all our others.
Thank you for playing the game over the last few years. It was an amazing experience for us to have a game on Steam, to go to events and show it off and to see people playing it. Unfortunately, nothing good in life lasts forever, and videogames are sadly no exception.
We have been honored to have you as our players,
Sean & Kieran