After being tipped off by an industry source, GameDaily BIZ has learned that Brighter Minds Media filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 28. Unlike chapter 7, which involves complete liquidation of the company, chapter 11 bankruptcy will enable Brighter Minds to remain in control of its business while it reorganizes.
Brighter Minds publishes a wide array of family-friendly software and most recently launched 2D Boy's critically acclaimed World of Goo, which won the 2008 Independent Games Festival award for Design Innovation and Technical Excellence and Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Award for Best Independent Game.
Brighter Minds also launched an online games destination in the middle of last year at BeanstalkGames.com.
GameDaily BIZ has reached out to Brighter Minds for comment, but has yet to hear back as of press time.
Reader Comments (3)
@brianc6234 a couple reasons your post makes no sense....First, it was the publisher(Brighter minds) that went bankrupt and not the developer (2d boy). 2nd, world of goo wasn't just a wii game and 2d boy isn't just a wii developer. 3rd, Brighter minds (the company that went bankrupt) had nothing to do with the wii version of the game, they only published the physical copies. 4th, it's one of the highest selling wiiware games.
I am sorry have you been paying attention to the developer closings of late? MS flight studio,Free racial, ect,ect. Devs are going under not only do tot eh economy but to the overhead they spend to try and make games more shiny then they need to be....
This just proves you can't survive as a Wii developer. Time to move over to PSN where gamers are actually online and would buy your games. How many copies of World of Goo did they sell on the Wii anyway? Was it around 5,000?