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248 lives lost their jobs in the gaming industry within a week. Firewalk Studios was shut down, resulting in 174 jobs being cut. Probably Monsters laid off 50 professionals. Fingersoft let go of 14 people. And Toast Interactive laid off 10 members. Seeing so many posts from the impacted professionals mentioning their layoffs was disheartening. But we wish to turn things in the favour of these game devs. And that can only be done by focusing ahead and trying to help them get back on their feet in no time. So here are a few devs impacted by these studios, and we are celebrating their achievements. Requesting everyone for a reshare to help these profiles reach recruiters in your network. Rhys Constance — A community expert with over 6.5 years of experience at Fingersoft, known for the popular game Hill Climb Racing. As Head of Community, Rhys drove impactful collaborations with brands like LEGO and Konami. Jorrie Bolton — A Senior Character Artist, recently with ProbablyMonsters, where she contributed her expertise in creating intricate character models. Previously, she worked as a Contract Character Artist for Valve on DOTA 2, where she designed notable characters and skins, including the Stuntwood Symbiont, Dark Maw Inhibitor, Jull, Icewrack Bootlegger’s default outfit, and the Noble Court skin for Anessix, Mistress of Secrets. Lahela Schoessler — An Art Lead at ProbablyMonsters with a rich animation and character art background, bringing over a decade of experience across top studios. She has contributed to high-profile projects, including Rocket Arena at Final Strike Games and Disney Interactive, where she shaped characters for Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics and Epic Mickey 2. Hollie Brown — A Game Producer with a strong track record in coordinating and unblocking teams to deliver outstanding game projects. At ProbablyMonsters, she contributed to the development of the Battle Barge team, while at Red Lens Games, she supported Minecraft’s China Consumer team and the Bedrock team. With experience at Lightforge Games, Cloud Imperium, and Sumo Digital, Hollie has worked on major titles, including Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Star Citizen. Eric Evans — Content Tools and Pipeline Programmer/Tech Artist with over 20 years in the gaming industry. Most recently, he was the Sr. Advanced Tools and Pipeline Tech Artist at ProbablyMonsters. Eric’s experience spans pivotal roles at Hi-Rez Studios, where he advanced from Technical Artist to Lead Technical Artist. David Paul — An Art Director and Concept Artist based in Seattle with a robust portfolio spanning renowned studios like LucasArts, EA/PopCap, and ArenaNet. At ProbablyMonsters, he led the artistic vision for Battle Barge. His experience includes guiding art direction for iconic titles such as Plants vs Zombies 2 at PopCap and serving as Art Director at Unknown Worlds and ArenaNet. *** #layoffsupport #gamedev

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Hey - Chris at Onyx Studio here, hello! I hope you're doing okay? Please, interact, comment, or repost this post, to widen its reach, a wider network (my network plus your network) will help, it just does. We're only as strong as our collective games industry network. As part of my day to day, I have LinkedIn open, it's so powerful, and when you have a good network in our world, I see a lot of jobs posted every day and I also see a lot of people that could do those jobs, I hope this post will help put these two things together. Here are some jobs and career sites I have seen today: Epic Games Lead Producer: https://lnkd.in/gH39ZAs3 Epic Games main careers portal: https://lnkd.in/gvUJ7-jS Jagex Lead User Researcher: https://lnkd.in/gVypxi7d Jagex main careers site: https://lnkd.in/ghYsNT4k Google, Growth Manager, Scaled Gaming Apps: https://lnkd.in/gF4_DWJD Google main careers site (TONS OF JOBS, JOBS GALORE): https://lnkd.in/gF4_DWJD Game Recruiter Tech Director: https://lnkd.in/gzQqxfdB Game Recruiter main careers site: https://lnkd.in/gy4BGm7x Lucid Games Ltd Games 12 x open jobs: https://lnkd.in/gCSwxZxk BITKRAFT Ventures has 140+ portfolio companies hiring a broad range of roles at all levels and disciplines across the globe. Here are just a few of the companies in their portfolio. https://lnkd.in/gaReZcEa The Most Games Game QA Specialist: https://lnkd.in/gh2qcSNS Build A Rocket Boy Lead UI Artist: https://lnkd.in/gGE3wHm9 Build A Rocket Boy main careers site: https://lnkd.in/gDYKa6ZS Electronic Arts (EA) Arts Technical Artist - Tools and Technology: https://lnkd.in/gUA9azEU Electronic Arts (EA) Arts careers site on LI: https://lnkd.in/g5ASEZqy Blizzard Entertainment Sr Manager, Mobile User Acquisition: https://lnkd.in/gZdXz9_w Blizzard Entertainment main careers site: https://lnkd.in/gvkDCcCD And finally..... As a founding patron of Safe In Our World, the charity offers a resource you can take advantage of, this workshop, provides practical psychological tools to maintain your wellbeing after redundancy: https://lnkd.in/gA9xyqMY Let me know if I can help further.

Horrible news this evening with Dawon Entertainment announcing they are closing their studio and Lightforge Games needing to reduce their staff to only a skeleton crew. This must stop, this is so, so painful 😔 To those affected by the closure or layoffs, please find a comprehensive list of resources, below: 🥇First, Discipline Games Jobs Resources: Over the past weeks I have created nine Games Jobs Resources to find jobs in a wide range of disciplines: 🎨 Art, Animation, VFX and UI This resource contains around 1,300 jobs worldwide across all links. Link: https://lnkd.in/eu2bjadW ⚙ Engineering and Programming This resource lists just over 1,700 jobs worldwide across all links. Link: https://lnkd.in/etPj22BE 🕹 Quality Assurance This resource lists over 440 QA jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/dkiEy8da 📑 Game Production This resource lists around 400 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/d9qfQ5tg 📢 Marketing & Community This resource lists around 380 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/dc-PVb3h 🎶 Audio and Sound Design This resource lists around 180 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/dU8t6Esq 📠 Studio Support, HR, Recruitment and BizDev This resource lists around 300 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/dMdWv4xN ⚙ IT This resource lists around 100 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/df7d-KkR 🎮 Game Design This resource lists around 600 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/d2kKaw95 🥈 Second, the Ultimate list of Video Games Career Resources: This should be your one-stop shop for all information. My dear friend Amir Satvat maintains these documents, he is a legend for doing this - please check them out: https://amirsatvat.com/ 🥉 Third, If you have worked in publishing, please message me. I am looking for quite a few roles right now! ⬅ 🎖 Finally, do not give up. Ever. No matter how dark things may look right now, I KNOW you will get through this, you have got this! 👊 Remember you are not alone. If you need help, advice, or even an ear to listen, we're here for you. Always! ➡ A request to my community, please can I ask you to repost this post to your colleagues and friends, so that we can get as many into jobs as possible! And please comment if you or your studio are currently hiring - let's help each other! Much love ❤️ #layoffs #gamesindustry #jobsingames #dawon #lightforge

"Only a big studio has the luxury to be anti-layoff." ....WHAT?! 😳 First off, I'd like to start this post out by stating I am in no way going after the individual who said this. Rather, I wish to use this as a potential learning opportunity in order to help remove any sort of misconceptions there may be regarding the current state of Games and #IndieRevolution Just this year alone, Obsidian reported that the estimated number of jobs lost in Games was nearing the 10,000's. To be more specific 🤨 PlayStation - 900 Activision Blizzard - 1900 Microsoft - FOUR Studio closures Riot Games - 500 Twitch - 500 Unity - 1800 I'm not even including other well-known studios such as Ubisoft, Electronic Arts (EA), and Nexon America. Of course, among said list are plenty of Indie Studios. However, from my personal experience, closures such as Die Gute Fabrik were handled in a way which not only provided those affected assistance in finding their next home (Take, their VERY in depth spreadsheet showcasing all of their talent), they also have a CEO who most of the time provides a more 'human' response compared to what we've seen in the past. IE: "We need more Games like Hi-Fi Rush." If you know, you know. 😶🌫️ Circling back, If you or anyone you know believes the point first made above, I encourage you to please take a look at all the news articles, resources, and outreach posts that constantly appear in my LinkedIn feed from the likes of Caitlin Cooke, Amir Satvat, Alexander Rehm, Kat Craig, as well as Mayank Grover. You don't have to have a million dollars in your pocket to support people maintaining their lives. #GameIndustry #GameDev #Community #IndieDev #Games #Indie #OpenToNetwork #Layoffs #Support #EntryLevel #Resource #ProjectManager

These are the various problems almost every layoff-impacted game dev is facing: - Sudden Financial Hardships - High self-doubt and mental health strain - Disruptions in personal relationships - Loss of creative outlets - Pressure to leave the industry and switch to another - Erosion of trust in the industry - Long-term career damage - Constant fear of layoffs repeating - Constant need to stay competitive and on par with the world - Mental toll of starting over Nobody should have to go through for the sake of surviving in the industry. This post is for the impacted devs we recently came across. They were impacted by the various layoffs at studios like nDreams, Inflexion Games, and Noice. Also humbly requesting for a reshare to help the devs reach recruiters and actively hiring game studios in your network. Samantha Difeo — Samantha Difeo has worked at Inflexion Games on Nightingale and Ubisoft Montréal on Assassin's Creed Valhalla as a Gameplay Programmer. Other than that, she also has AAA levels of experience working for studios like Square Enix Montreal. Johan Lindholm — A community professional with almost a decade in the industry, focusing on AAA games and live services. He has held roles as a Community Lead at Noice and a Global Community Lead at PLAION and served as a Community Developer for The Division brand at Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio. Angela Stone — A Senior and Lead Producer with 15 years of experience in production, project management, and publishing, specializing in Live Ops and Art Production for AAA studios and mobile platforms. Angela has also contributed her expertise to Rare Ltd and Lockwood Publishing. Alessia Rimmer — A 3D artist specializing in stylized and realistic art. With experience as a Junior Prop Artist at nDreams and a Junior 3D Artist at Immotion Group, she has honed her skills in 3D modeling, sculpting, texturing, and Unity. Alessia contributed to high-definition VR projects and the educational mobile app "Let's Explore Oceans," which was featured on platforms like Nat Geo and BBC. Tim Edmunds — A leader with over 14 years in the gaming industry and 30+ years in software engineering. As a Technical Director at nDreams, he was responsible for the technical direction of multi-platform game development, developer operations, and AWS optimization. Previously, he held senior management roles at Sony Interactive Entertainment, focusing on planning and business optimization for PlayStation. Steven Bristow — A Design Director with extensive experience in game design and development. Recently, at nDreams: Studio Orbital, he was responsible for leading design vision and execution for an unannounced project. Previously, he was Assistant Head of Design at Rebellion, contributing to titles like Sniper Elite VR, Evil Genius 2, and Zombie Army Trilogy and 4. At Rockstar Games, he worked on Max Payne 3, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and Manhunt 2 as a Sr. Designer. *** #layoffsupport #gamedev

I'm so sorry to hear that NetherRealm Studios (WB Games) has been conducting layoffs, affecting around 50 members of staff, largely from their mobile division. To those impacted by this, please find a comprehensive list of resources, below: 🥇First, reach out to us at People Can Fly Studio, we have many roles open right now in Canada, the UK, Ireland and Europe, please check them out here: https://lnkd.in/eWpV5PbA 🥈Next, Discipline Games Jobs Resources: Over the past weeks I have created 9 (at time of writing) Games Jobs Resources to find jobs in a wide range of disciplines: 🎨 Art, Animation, VFX and UI This resource contains around 1,400 jobs worldwide across all links. Link: https://lnkd.in/eH-yWEms ⚙ Engineering and Programming This resource lists just over 2,300 jobs worldwide across all links. Link: https://lnkd.in/eMYuN-zV 🕹 Quality Assurance This resource lists over 400 QA jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/ecHRqMnN 📑 Game Production This resource lists around 390 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/erVSuNwi 📢 Marketing & Community This resource lists around 330 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/eDmmXtP6 🎶 Audio and Sound Design This resource lists around 120 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/e9vpruEY 📠 Studio Support, HR, Recruitment and BizDev This resource lists around 340 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/eDeasJYj ⚙ IT This resource lists around 100 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/eTpRYvy2 🎮 Game Design This resource lists around 660 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/eXuJA9Vq 🥉 Third, the Ultimate list of Video Games Career Resources: This should be your one-stop shop for all information. My dear friend Amir Satvat maintains these documents, he is a legend for doing this - please check them out: https://amirsatvat.com/ 🎖 Finally, do not give up. Ever. No matter how dark things may look right now, I KNOW you will get through this, you have got this! 👊 Remember you are not alone. If you need help, advice, or even an ear to listen, we're here for you. Always! ➡ A request to my community, please can I ask you to repost this post to your colleagues and friends, so that we can get as many into jobs as possible! And please comment if you or your studio are currently hiring - let's help each other! Much love ❤️ #netherrealm #layoffs