New developer Lightforge Video games is shedding “the bulk” of its employees on the finish of Might, leaving solely a skeleton crew in place.
The news comes via the company’s LinkedIn page, the place the studio posted that the studio would even be pausing work on its debut sport, Undertaking ORCS. Lightforge says that this is because of it being unable to search out the funding wanted to proceed growth.
Lightforge was based in 2021 by veterans of Blizzard and Epic Video games. On the time of writing, the studio has 37 members of employees on LinkedIn.
“Whereas in the present day is a tragic day for Lightforge, I am very pleased with the work we have carried out and the workforce we have constructed over the previous 4 years,” CEO and founder Matt Schembari wrote in his own post.
“We all the time knew this was an bold long-shot of a challenge, however we pursued it due to a shared ardour in collaborative storytelling and with a fearlessness to do one thing totally different each as a challenge and as a studio.
“I wish to thank the wonderful workforce who gave their time, vitality, talent, expertise, and keenness to this challenge. You all are an inspiration, and I look ahead to the belongings you do subsequent. I would additionally prefer to thank everybody who supported us, put your religion in us, and joined us on this journey.”
He continued: “For now I’ll maintain on any retrospectives or classes discovered whereas we get by the method over the subsequent few weeks and regroup to discover a viable future for the studio. Nonetheless, I do intend to share what I can in hopes that telling our story may also help our associates at different studios.”