Life is Strange: True Colours developer Deck 9 Video games introduced that it could be shedding workers. The studio talked about the video games trade’s worsening market circumstances as the rationale for the cuts.
“As we speak we made the tough determination to put off 20% of our workers. These persons are wonderful, gifted, and superior builders,” Deck 9 stated on Twitter. “They’ve made a huge effect throughout their time at Deck 9 Video games and we didn’t take this determination frivolously.”
Sport director Stephan Frost additionally stated that management took pay cuts with a view to cut back the variety of impacted workers as a lot as doable. “That is the strongest staff D9 has ever been and it completely sucks that the trade is within the state that it’s presently,” he explained.
Deck 9 already suffered a round of layoffs back in Might 2023. The studio labored on Life is Strange: Earlier than the Storm in 2017 and took over the sequence from unique developer Do not Nod with Life is Strange: True Colours in 2021. Since then, Deck 9 has launched Life is Strange Remastered Assortment and The Expanse: A Telltale Sequence.
The video games trade has been ravaged with layoffs. Simply this week, Till Daybreak and The Quarry developer Supermassive Video games introduced that it could be shedding 90 of its workers. And simply this morning, Sony laid off 900 builders throughout its first get together studios, together with Naughty Canine, Insomniac Video games, and Guerrilla Video games.