{"id":110118,"date":"2020-03-09T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359318"},"modified":"2020-03-09T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T23:16:00","slug":"disruptor-beam-lays-off-devs-as-it-transitions-to-a-game-tech-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/disruptor-beam-lays-off-devs-as-it-transitions-to-a-game-tech-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptor Beam lays off devs as it transitions to a game tech provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based&nbsp;Disruptor Beam laid off a number of staff today, less than a week after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359011\/Tilting_Point_acquires_Star_Trek_Timelines_from_Disruptor_Beam.php\">sold off<\/a> its&nbsp;<em>Star Trek Timelines<\/em>&nbsp;free-to-play game to Tilting Point and stated plans to refocus on its Disruptor Engine game&nbsp;platform.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar&nbsp;with today&#8217;s&nbsp;situation reports&nbsp;Disruptor Beam cut an estimated ten jobs spanning an entire product team,&nbsp;from QA to art. Those involved were informed last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after 18&nbsp;Disruptor Beam staff members&nbsp;reportedly&nbsp;departed&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>Timelines&nbsp;<\/em>to work on the game at Boston neighbor Wicked Realm Games, and it further clarifies Disruptor Beam&#8217;s transition from game studio&nbsp;to game tech company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As our company moves in a new direction to focus on technology, we are excited about Tilting Point taking on <em>Star Trek Timelines<\/em>,\u201d Disruptor Beam chief Jon Radoff stated last week.&nbsp;\u201cWe are also excited that Tilting Point will be one of our first live customers for our live-ops technology and that we will be continuing our working relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based&nbsp;Disruptor Beam laid off a number of staff today, less than a week after it sold off its&nbsp;Star Trek Timelines&nbsp;free-to-play game to Tilting Point and stated plans to refocus on its Disruptor Engine game&nbsp;platform. A source familiar&nbsp;with today&#8217;s&nbsp;situation reports&nbsp;Disruptor Beam cut an estimated ten jobs spanning an entire product team,&nbsp;from QA to art. Those involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}