Ignition layoffs in Austin

dtschultz

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35449/Ignition_Lays_Off_Console_Devs_In_Austin.php


Wow. I remember reading a thread awhile back saying they had laid off people in CA and FL and move operations to Austin.

Hope everyone is ok.

Justin Meisse

Guards at the doors? that's pretty low down and scummy

dtschultz

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. There's got to be a better way than that.

skylebones

UGH! That's super lame. I hope the staff affected land on their feet quickly.

Geezus

So soon after Faxion? Damn man.

I wish everyone affected a speedy recovery. *bro hug*

Ace-Angel

I didn't see much quality being published by this studio, do they even make games, or do they go around closing studios and hiring guys only to have shamed at the door by guards?

m4dcow

I talked to some guys that were at the Florida studio when that got shuttered and they said a bunch of people were asked to relocate to the Texas studio. These guys passed and looked for other opportunities, even at that point they figured something like this would happen because of how the place was run.

Good luck to the competent people over there though.

Orgoth02

wtf is going on now a days. This is like the 6 studio within 2 months I have heard of going down the crapper

RexM

Orgoth02 wrote: »

wtf is going on now a days. This is like the 6 studio within 2 months I have heard of going down the crapper

They all seem to have had one thing in common: Poor management.

Snefer

No big surprise. The industry is changing, projects are more and more demanding + financial crisis worldwide, that leaves very little room for average devs, poor management and missed milestones. Its a sad situation, but I dont think the closures are gonna stop any time soon, I think we will see some major shifts in how development is handled over the next few years.

Jeff Parrott

Anyone know if Lee is ok?

Hope everyone that was in the cut lands something fast.

Lee3dee

Thanks Jeffro and all, I'm OK, I still have VFX to make on Monday.

The Florida team moved to Austin and were working on an unannounced game. Yesterday sadly they were laid off as it says in the gamasutra article. Great bunch of people on the team! really talented I got to hang out with them last night, gave them places to try in Austin that I knew of. There are a large amount of Austin companies are hiring, it isn't like Florida.

I was helping them out for a short while, making VFX, it was a nice break from MMO stuff I actually got to use shaders!

Justin Meisse

Kingsisle has a bunch of openings, http://kingsisle.com/jobs

Perfectblue

Snefer wrote: »

No big surprise. The industry is changing, projects are more and more demanding + financial crisis worldwide, that leaves very little room for average devs, poor management and missed milestones. Its a sad situation, but I dont think the closures are gonna stop any time soon, I think we will see some major shifts in how development is handled over the next few years.

For the better or worse in your opinion?

roosterMAP

Ignition has a big history or laying off people and such. First Florida, then California, and now Texas.

I would never apply there, and i hope no one here ever has to.

Adam Curtis

roosterMAP wrote: »

Ignition has a big history or laying off people and such. First Florida, then California, and now Texas

+ London.

I left without having a job lined up at the time if that says anything.. Hope anyone effected picks something up quick.

Snefer

Perfectblue wrote: »

For the better or worse in your opinion?

Id say that depends. It most definately suck that companies close and people loose their jobs, no one wants that, but hopefully our industry will grow up a bit and mature when it comes to production, estimating schedules, learning to handle transitions between projects etc. Too many simple mistakes are made at production and managementlevel. But hopefully in the future we will have more streamlined studios where this kind of thing happens a lot less.