Squeaky Wheel Ceases Active Development

[ryan.sumo]

Hello scholars,

I just wanted to let you all know that we have made a major announcement. Squeaky Wheel Studio is disbanding and ceasing active development. For the folks that want to know more details you can read more about it here:

www.squeakywheel.ph/blog/the-squeaky-wheel-falls-silent

In terms of Academia, please rest assured that we will continute to monitor the threads and address any major issues with the game.

It's been absolutely amazing making the game with all of these past 4 years, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

[Niso]

I wish you much fun and success in your new job!

[Nekoteru]

I just got back to playing Academia this year and it's sad to hear you guys disbanded :( but I hope everyone on the team will get more success in their own lives!

[Eggdipie]

Thank you for making an amazing game! Enjoy your new job!

[kailomonkey]

That's a shame. I've just discovered it recently and been playing it, and today reading an article comparing it to similar games by the artist and what could be done to improve the adoption of the game.

I really like it. School makes a good setting in all sorts of games. I guess younger people might have less interest in school building and older people make up a bit of a niche.

Anyway that's a setup for then talking about what major directions could improve the game's draw but I suppose it's now not so useful. It's a really chill game which I appreciate but maybe it needed to be more challenging (I've only played it on easy though so I'm yet to find out). Probably more personal RNG interactions between students, student/teacher drama stuff, a heart currency, things like that might have matched more expectations of the genre... Who knows. It's pretty fun as it is and I appreciate all the openness to mods. I haven't seen a good anime uniform mod yet but I'm sure there is one somewhere...

Anyway, I saw a youtuber playing it and instantly wanted to try it, and don't regret it :) Even if I'm a bit late!

[Tampa Powers]

Hopefully you don't also plan to give Paradox access to this, they'll run it into the ground like Prison Architect

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Or Cities: DLCs

[Rocky McRockerson]

Originally posted by Tampa Powers:

Hopefully you don't also plan to give Paradox access to this, they'll run it into the ground like Prison Architect

Well, uh... Hm. I have bad news for you, I'm afraid...