[Updated] Highguard Developer Wildlight Lays Off Employees

Replace February 11, 8:03PM Japanese:

Wildlight Leisure despatched us the next assertion:

At the moment we made an extremely tough resolution to half methods with plenty of our workforce members whereas protecting a core group of builders to proceed innovating on and supporting the sport.

We’re pleased with the workforce, expertise, and the product we have created collectively. We’re additionally grateful for gamers who gave the sport a shot, and those that proceed to be part of our neighborhood.

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All’s not nicely within the land of Highguard, as information has emerged relating to developer Wildlight Leisure. In line with employees on the studio, Wildlight layoffs have occurred following Highguard’s launch.

Degree designer Alex Graner was the primary to publish on LinkedIn, sharing the next:

 Sadly, together with a lot of the workforce at Wildlight, I used to be laid off right now.

This one actually stings as there was a variety of unreleased content material I used to be actually wanting ahead to that I and others designed for Highguard.

Nevertheless, I am excited for my subsequent journey. In case your workforce or anybody you already know wants an skilled Degree Designer, hit me up!

This comes after Highguard was a excessive profile announcement at The Sport Awards earlier than releasing on January thirtieth to middling Steam person counts. Since launch it has launched a number of movies, and updates, together with a 5v5 mode which was shortly made everlasting, and was usually the popular mode to play the sport. 

It’s the newest within the massacre of developer layoffs, following Riot Video games shedding lots of the employees on its combating recreation 2XKO, numerous layoffs from Ubisoft, and a few very robust years within the trade. Presumably, the workforce at Wildlight hoped for his or her launch of Highguard to extra intently mirror the success of Apex Legends, which they had been trying to emulate in launch sample, together with initially planning to shadowdrop the sport and hopefully experience a wave of phrase of mouth to success.

Now we have reached out to Wildlight Leisure, however they did not instantly reply. We are going to replace this story if we study extra in regards to the state of affairs relating to the workers on the extremely formidable indie studio.