Bit2Goodbye
When we founded Bit2Good, we had the optimism and fearlessness of youth. We loved (and still love) videogames so much and wanted to contribute our dreams and ideas to the medium, becoming a - successful - part of the industry. But here's the truth we all know, yet we like to igno
When we founded Bit2Good, we had the optimism and fearlessness of youth.
We loved (and still love) videogames so much and wanted to contribute our dreams and ideas to the medium, becoming a - successful - part of the industry.
But here's the truth we all know, yet we like to ignore until we get confronted with directly: making games is hard. It's really, brutally hard. It requires upfront investment, it extracts all of your energy and when viewed from a commercial standpoint it is barely more than a bet.
The time after the release of Goggles was a difficult one. The game - though we were immensely proud of what we were able to achieve with our fist ever released game - was admittedly not good enough. We poured everything into it, we burned our hearts and souls in the process... but it still was not enough.
The fact we were able to even create a second game was like a miracle in hindsight. What the Fork was created entirely in our free time, without any external funding and with the help of ambitious students who we were able to hopefully teach a thing or two in the process.
But even though What the Fork was a much better game and reviewed rather positively in the media, it was not enough to bring back Bit2Good in a way that would allow us to work fulltime on games again. Meanwhile, our lifes changed a lot. More duties, more responsibilities, less free time and frankly less energy and motivation.
Running a company is not free in Germany (don't know about other countries) and while the recurring costs were eating up all the profits from What the Fork we knew we had to make a decision. Either keep it alive with our own money until we maybe had ideas, time and motivation to create another game again; or shut the company down. With heavy hearts we decided to terminate Bit2Good. This means we will also need to make sure to stop our products being sold sometime in the near future.
I might be wrong, but I feel - deep down inside - we still are not finished with making games. But should the time come to create something new again, we won't need Bit2Good to create it. Bit2Good was always a means to an end. Created by friends as a vehicle to be able to try and make a living off of
ideas made into reality.
We want to thank all the gamers who bought and played our games.
Thank you for playing!
Honestly, we understand why companies like Nintendo put a "Thank you for playing!" into their credits.
Making games is hard. Ignoring the financial costs, it takes away time from the lifespan of everyone included. But seeing how gamers are willing to invest their money and - more importantly - their time to play something we created...
it's an amazing feeling!
Thank you all for playing our games, it truly meant the world to us.
And who knows, maybe... some day... you will play something from us again.
All the best, love and respect,
Sebastian & Lukas