After 17 years, the Dutch Recreation Backyard will shut down in January 2025.
The incubator program for Dutch studios defined its closure was caused by “modifications in alternatives and focus for public funding. [This] makes it not doable to understand a balanced funds that permits the continuation of actions in a accountable method.”
Over 130 builders benefitted from Dutch Recreation Backyard
DGG was based in 2008, and through the years, noticed over 130 builders participate in its program. In its personal phrases, the group “all the time offered fertile floor for innovation and collaboration inside the total Dutch video games business.”
Throughout its lifetime, the Dutch Recreation Backyard was concerned in a number of useful resource initiatives for builders, together with on-line programs about recreation enterprise, and a tracker for developments and developments within the Netherlands.
Whereas dismayed on the DGG’s upcoming finish, chairman Peter Laanen stated he was “happy with what we achieved over the previous 17 years, and the impact our efforts have had on the Dutch video games business. […] We glance again with satisfaction on every part now we have completed collectively.”
Managing director Jan-Pieter van Seventer echoed Laanen’s phrases, and thanked “all our companions, workers, firms, and your entire recreation group for his or her help and belief throughout all these years.”