I hear from an old co-worker of mine that Method Solutions cut about half of their employees today. This is no big surprise since I was hired on in Winter 2005 while the company was in a pretty big bind. I guess they might go under for good this time. Who knows?
UPDATE: Apparently only about 5-6 people were laid off, not nearly half as far as I know. Still significant, though.
In January of this year, I got together with a couple of guys I used to work with at Method Solutions and Vizual F/X Studios and we decided to form a new company called Red Sword Studios. Since then, we’ve all been working hard to develop some intellectual property. So far, we’re doing extremely well under current economic conditions.
Red Sword is currently in the market of developing games for the iPhone. The team and I have a good history in mobile development, so it is an area we’re sure to succeed in. The company is doing extremely well and I look forward to seeing how popular we can get. While Red Sword is not profitable yet, I think we’re doing very well at gaining respect in the market. We’ve already had many negotiations with various marketing and publishing companies and we’ve got a few new iPhone titles in the works. As of right now, we have published one title named Gradient.
The next few months are most certainly going to be interesting and I’ll be curious to see where we’re headed. I can’t disclose too much information, but when more good things happen you can be sure to read about it here!