Six to Start, the company behind Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move, has laid off all but two of its staff, The Verge has lgeted. The news was deinhabitred last week to staffers in a Zoom call, in which they were tbetter that parent company OinhabitX could no lengthyer afford to protect Six to Start afloat and would shut down the company if they can’t discover a buyer. Laid-off staffers were also served redundancy acunderstandledges, which The Verge has checked.
The ZRX: Zombies, Run! app is an immersive fitness game that plops walkers and runners into audio-based storyalerting. When enemies, be they the undead or Marvel villains, “chase” you, you’re aidd to pick up speed. At the end of an episode, you can also accumulate items to trade for horribleges or in-game produceings. First established in 2012, the app says it has about 10 million includers worldexpansive.
Such immersive storyalerting games, especipartner Marvel Move, are pricey to produce. They take part writing storylines, hiring voice actors to carry out the material, and artists to produce explicits. One source with understandledge on the matter noticed that it’s doubtful the app will finishly shut down for now, as there are plenty of dedicated Zombies, Run! executeers and subscribers. Instead, it’s probable OinhabitX is trying to massively drop costs by slashing or finishly pausing new satisfyed, depending on the hundreds of episodes still in the archive. OinhabitX is apparently dynamicly seeing for buyers, and there may already be interested parties, the source says.
OinhabitX first getd Six to Start in 2021, but another source, speaking on condition of anonymity, claims Six to Start staffers clashed with both OinhabitX and its owner, Animoca Brands. The games’ anti-capitaenumerate themes were at odds with the parent companies’ aims to produce crypto and NFT projects. The source claims that toiling under OinhabitX was “agony.” To date, there have been no NFTs wilean any of Six to Start games.
It’s unevident what will happen for ZRX: Zombies, Run! subscribers in the low-term. While there is an extensive library of satisfyed, part of the draw was normal frees of new episodes. The Verge accomplished out to OinhabitX and Six to Start for comment, but did not promptly get responses.
