The UK's Channel 4 is ceasing 4iP, its £20m digital innovation fund. The division was responsible for digital innovations like AudioBoo and Privates. Any projects currently in development will finish and the remaining 40 percent of the fund will be redistributed.
We remembered that Channel 4 was funding Introversion's Chronometer, but studio co-founder Mark Morris tells us it "never got taken forward beyond the concept stage." Morris elaborated, "Sad news about C4 though, they were doing some good in the business."
[Update 10/8 3pm ET: Channel 4's Alice Taylor – you may recognize her blog, Wonderland! – took to the comments to clarify how this affects some projects: "Naw. Mixup. 4iP is going, but it wasn't responsible for Privates. 4iP's closure doesn't affect The Curfew, or Privates DLC, or 1066, or Smokescreen, or Cover Girl, or Trafalgar Origins, or 303 Squadron, or Ada, or Bow Street Runner, or the 8 or so new game commissions we've got on the slate for 2011. 4iP's games: Papa Sangre and friends, they'll still turn up too. Hope that helps!
It sure does. Thanks, Alice!]
UK's Channel 4 kills digital innovation fund [Update: Lots of gaming still 'on the slate for 2011' at Channel 4]
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Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 4:23AM Esposch said
How long until the Canadian channel 4 start up a £50m fund?
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 8:20AM technoKyle said
Shame, this.
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 9:57AM Aerothorn said
I still need to finish The Curfew - it was having trouble saving my game:(
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 11:29AM kirwyn185 said
well as long as they keep making the IT crowd, im happy
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 12:32PM Enosoma said
4chan killed a lot of things.
Oh, misread that.
Oh, misread that.
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 2:44PM Crystaltips said
Naw. Mixup. 4iP is going, but it wasn't responsible for Privates. 4iP's closure doesn't affect The Curfew, or Privates DLC, or 1066, or Smokescreen, or Cover Girl, or Trafalgar Origins, or 303 Squadron, or Ada, or Bow Street Runner, or the 8 or so new game commissions we've got on the slate for 2011. 4iP's games: Papa Sangre and friends, they'll still turn up too.
Hope that helps!
Hope that helps!
Posted: Oct 8th 2010 5:11PM The Dark One said
This doesn't sound like killing so much as not renewing an endowment.
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