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Over the holiday Joe Danger developer Hello Game's Guilford office was flooded with the insurance refusing to cover the natural disaster. This left many concerned that the four-person studio's highly anticipated first-person sci-fi epic No Man's Sky would get delayed. Hello Games has updated its blog to let us know that won't be the case and everything's going to be okay.But first Hello Games' managing editor Sean Murray detailed the scope of the disaster. "We lost all our PCs, laptops, equipment, furniture, dev-kits, work in the blink of an eye, and our insurer (and those of those around us) seem like we won't be covered, or at least responsibility is unclear," he stated. "I don't want to say out loud the value of what we lost, it's horrible. It would probably fund a small game." Yikes!
Thankfully, the community has been very supportive of the indie powerhouse and the company is rebuilding its offices from the ashes (or mildew, as the case may be). "The good news is that people have been so so so nice. So genuinely overwhelmingly supportive that actually I don't know what to say," Murray gushed. "Some of us are working from home. We've filled a couple of dumpsters with our old stuff, and built ourselves a make-shift post-apocalyptic set of workstations - but we're back, full speed!"
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