Shipyard Games 2017-2024. GoCity + Wizards & Kingdoms GO + Nature Go to shut down.

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Shipyard Games 2017-2024. GoCity + Wizards & Kingdoms GO + Nature Go to shut down.

After all these years. The highly experienced Finland location based game company who developed GoCity and had team members from Grey Area, is shutting down.

"Andres Shipyard — Today at 1:29 AM
The End of Shipyard Games
In Shipyard Games, we have always looked to develop new and inventive geolocation games, mixing different genres with a geolocation twist as its core. After several very different prototypes, we learned a lot and developed advanced technology that we could use for any geolocation game we wanted.

The most recent one was Wizards & Kingdoms GO, a very promising game with a fast growing and passionate community. We released an early version around two months ago, knowing it had content for 1-2weeks, but many of you are still playing and are craving for more content. Recently, we have been more quiet and slowed the release cadence because we've been designing how the full game would be for global launch.

Mixing our own ideas with the invaluable feedback we got from all of you, here are the main features that we agreed on to make during the next year:
Character progression with different talent paths (fighter, explorer, farmer and builder).
Character customisation and cosmetic rewards for self-expression.
Deeper town building where every town would have its own progression.
Buildings will generate refined resources, act as trading centres, enhance troops, defence buildings, etc.
Towns could be built anywhere in the world, and players would always have access to them.
Towns could be packed and redeployed anywhere to avoid congestion once per season.
Towns could not be destroyed or captured, but every player would only be able to build few of them.
Players would benefit for visiting other player towns, even from a different team.
Companions will be collectable (interesting, different per biome, not consumed) closer to Pokémon GO.
Companions will be upgradable and be equipped with items for a fight.
Companions and enemies will have more stats and attack types to make the combat way more interesting.
Seasons will consist of a number of tournaments.
Seasons will have specific themes and rewards, and can have slightly different rules.
Social: friends, gifts and chat.
Clan PvP: mode where clans are ranked by ELO and have their own shared world for the ultimate competitive mode.
Visual rework having a stronger more appealing theme for the game.

We were very excited to finally fulfil our dream of making an amazing new geolocation MMO in a shared world, and we were quite sure with this design we could achieve it. Unfortunately, the company situation is critical, we have been running out of money and our previous investor didn’t want to continue supporting us despite how promising the game was. This means that with all our sorrow we will shut down the company in about two months. The game will not receive more updates and because we can’t keep paying for the servers, the game will eventually be taken offline.

We sincerely appreciate so much all of your help, amazing feedback, bug reports, memes, tutorials, kind words for the team… and we are very sorry we could not finish the game you all deserve, but unfortunately often dreams need money to become true, and we ran out of it.

Dev Team, Wizards & Kingdoms GO"

"ABOUT US
We Are the Pioneers of Location-Based Gaming

THE TEAM

Andreas Wedenberg
CEO

Teemu Tuulari
CTO

Won Seo
Senior Server Developer

Chico Spencer
Game Artist

Mats Holmberg
Head of Operations

Vilma Virtanen
Junior Game Designer

Megan Egglesden
Game Designer

Mauno Koponen
Senior Game Developer

Jonas Nyman
Senior Game Developer

Andrés Diez
Game Developer

Teuvo Tyrkkö
Technical Artist

OUR JOURNEY

Wizards & Kingdoms GO
Your quest starts at your doorstep! Go outside, capture land and start building a kingdom or conquer your neighbour's kingdom! Expand your realm by establishing towns with castles, building homes and refineries in real-world locations. Utilise magic to capture territory, gather resources and tame wild beasts as companions to battle monsters.

Nature Go
Adopt and nurture baby animals until they reach adulthood while exploring real-world locations to find various habitats and wildlife. Document your discoveries through photography, and provide food and care for the animals. Experience stunning natural landscapes and collect items by physically moving around in the real world.

City Gardens
City Gardens is an immersive gardening sim designed for master hagglers and greenthumbs alike! Grow veggies in your garden and sell the produce to your customers while growing your business and decorating your environment.

Skyship Heroes
Skyship Heroes is a location-based, multiplayer battling game.
Rid the world of evil powers and rescue citizens along the way.

Go City!
GoCity is a location-based building game.
Build your very own city wherever you are in the real world.

FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM!
The clans didn't have the ability to kick inactive members, but version 1.2.14, which is out now, should fix that. The loading times have also been updated.
Download Wizards & Kingdoms GO from Google Play and App Store, link on the profile!
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Feeling lost in-game? Want to read more about the updates, discuss the changes or share your thoughts? If so, please join us on the Discord server (link in bio)!
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Version 1.2.12 is now available for Wizards and Kingdoms GO ⚔️🏰
Download the game from Google Play and App Store, link on the profile!
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A new release for Wizards & Kingdoms GO coming soon!! ⚔️🏰
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