Now, a former game development employee at Imagendary Studios claims the developer has laid off most of its reported 54-person staff.
On LinkedIn, digital artist David Luong wrote that the studio “had a major restructuring and most of us were laid off. I stayed as one of the last members of the crew to put some things in order.”
However, these cuts appear to have been in the plans for some time. GamesIndustry noted a Glassdoor review from July that mentioned widespread layoffs at the time.
Imagendary was founded in 2020 by former Blizzard Entertainment artist Wei Wang and acquired by FunPlus the following year. According to the website, his goal was to create a project that spanned multiple media, including video games and movies.
Although the studio never officially announced its first project, job postings indicated that it was working on a third-person action game.
Among the list of departures earlier this summer are studio head Ryan Polreis and design director Michael Brinker, both of whom were brought in in 2022 and introduced as high-ranking studio figures.
The game’s developer has reached out to parent company Imagendary FunPlus for comment and will update this story when an announcement is made.