{"id":1064666,"date":"2022-10-14T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1064666"},"modified":"2022-10-14T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:00:05","slug":"so-much-screaming-inside-me-google-stadia-shutdown-stuns-indie-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1064666","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSo much screaming inside me\u201c\u2014Google Stadia shutdown stuns indie developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/stadia-graffiti-removal-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man removing Stadia logo from a wall with high pressure water spray\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/stadia-graffiti-removal.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1080\" data-width=\"1920\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Like it never even happened. (credit: Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source-byte.com\/\">Source Byte Studios<\/a> Chairman of the Board Nikodem Swider had just put in one final late-night bug-squashing session. After four long months of porting work, his small Polish studio was finally ready to submit a near-final build addressing all of the \u201cmust fix\u201d errors Google had identified before the game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1787630\/Jump_Challenge\/\"><i>Jump Challenge<\/i><\/a> could finally launch on Stadia.<\/p>\n<p>Then, scrolling through the news on his train ride home, Swider saw what he called a \u201chorror message\u201d on his phone. Stadia was closing down. All his porting work would be for naught.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI [thought] it was some rumor\u2026 it cannot be true,\u201d Swider said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zs9YyC6sYOY\">in a YouTube video<\/a> in the immediate aftermath of the shutdown. \u201c[Then] I saw [it was an] official statement about Stadia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1888737#p3\">Read 29 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1888737&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1888737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSo much screaming inside me\u201c\u2014Google Stadia shutdown stuns indie developers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Like it never even happened. (credit: Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images) Source Byte Studios Chairman of the Board Nikodem Swider had just put in one final late-night bug-squashing session. After four long months of porting work, his small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1064666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1064666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}