Lightforge Games is laying off the majority of its team and pausing development on Project ORCS.
The fully-remote studio was formed in 2021 by a group of Blizzard and Epic Games veterans and quickly secured $15 million to finance its debut project.
Project ORCS was billed as a cross-platform social experience that would let players "create worlds and tell stories with unprecedented freedom." The studio claimed it would combine the creative elements of Minecraft with the open-ended storytelling of tabletop RPGs.
Although Lightforge is cutting jobs across the board, the studio intends to regroup as a "skeleton team" to carve out a viable future.
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Read moreWith just over a month to go, XRDC officials want to take a moment today to let you know about a really interesting talk at the October event that dives into what the folk at home improvement retailer Lowe's have learned about how to best use XR technology on the store floor.
This special XRDC Enterprise Training & Education track talk, "3D Scanning and XR Powered Home Improvement: A Lowe's Case Study", will be presented by Mason Sheffield, director of lab technology at Lowe's Innovation Labs in Seattle.
You'll want to be there because you'll learn all about the exciting new techniques that Lowe's Innovation Labs use…
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