The head of the Boss Key Productions studio, Cliff Bleszinski, appealed to Epic Games with a request not to poach his employees to his staff. The game designer tweeted about it.
He did not specify who and when Epic Games tried to take away from the Boss Key staff.
UPD. As it soon became clear, not all of Blesinski’s former colleagues at Boss Key Productions and current employees of Epic Games appreciated his message. Senior programmer William McCarroll tweeted:
“Each of us had our own reasons to leave Boss Key for Epic Games. It hurts a little when they treat you like stolen property. We are people first of all,” McCarroll stressed.
The last known story with the transition from Boss Key to Epic Games occurred in December last year. Then its co-founder Arjan Bruxee left the studio. He returned to Epic to participate in an unnamed project.
Bruce and Blesinski worked together at Epic Games back in the 90s on the Jazz Jackrabbit platformer.
Competition with Fortnite
Cliff Blezinski mentioned in the same tweet that his team is pleased with the results of the online action movie Radical Heights, which launched on April 10 in early access Steam.
The new Boss Key game belongs to the popular “battle royale” genre and claims to be a competitor to the largest and very successful Epic Games project — Fortnite Battle Royale.
On behalf of the editorial board, we add that Radical Heights seems to be an attempt by the studio to take revenge for the commercial failure of the heroic shooter LawBreakers, from the further development of which Boss Key officially refused in early April. The success of this attempt is still in question.
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