[Updated] Highguard Developer Wildlight Lays Off Workers

Replace February 11, 8:03PM Japanese:

Wildlight Leisure despatched us the next assertion:

At this time we made an extremely troublesome resolution to half methods with quite a few our staff members whereas holding a core group of builders to proceed innovating on and supporting the sport.

We’re pleased with the staff, 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 group.

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All’s not properly within the land of Highguard, as information has emerged concerning developer Wildlight Leisure. Based on employees on the studio, Wildlight layoffs have occurred following Highguard’s launch.

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

 Sadly, together with a lot of the staff at Wildlight, I used to be laid off at present.

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

Nonetheless, I am excited for my subsequent journey. In case your staff or anybody wants an skilled Degree Designer, hit me up!

This comes after Highguard was a excessive profile announcement at The Recreation Awards earlier than releasing on January thirtieth to middling Steam consumer counts. Since launch it has launched a number of movies, and updates, together with a 5v5 mode which was rapidly 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 most of the employees on its combating sport 2XKO, numerous layoffs from Ubisoft, and a few very powerful years within the business. Presumably, the staff at Wildlight hoped for his or her launch of Highguard to extra carefully mirror the success of Apex Legends, which they had been making an attempt to emulate in launch sample, together with initially planning to shadowdrop the sport and hopefully journey a wave of phrase of mouth to success.

We now have reached out to Wildlight Leisure, however they did not instantly reply. We’ll replace this story if we be taught extra in regards to the state of affairs concerning the staff on the extremely bold indie studio.