Life is Unusual: True Colours developer Deck 9 Video games introduced that it might be shedding workers. The studio talked about the video games trade’s worsening market situations as the explanation for the cuts.
“Immediately we made the troublesome resolution to put off 20% of our workers. These individuals 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 resolution frivolously.”
Recreation director Stephan Frost additionally stated that management took pay cuts so as to scale back the variety of impacted staff as a lot as attainable. “That is the strongest crew 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 spherical of layoffs again in Might 2023. The studio labored on Life is Unusual: Earlier than the Storm in 2017 and took over the sequence from unique developer Do not Nod with Life is Unusual: True Colours in 2021. Since then, Deck 9 has launched Life is Unusual Remastered Assortment and The Expanse: A Telltale Collection.
The video games trade has been ravaged with layoffs. Simply this week, Till Daybreak and The Quarry developer Supermassive Video games introduced that it might be shedding 90 of its staff. And simply this morning, Sony laid off 900 builders throughout its first celebration studios, together with Naughty Canine, Insomniac Video games, and Guerrilla Video games.