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Penny's Big Breakaway studio Evening Star announces another half a dozen layoffs


Evening Star, the studio behind Penny's Big Breakaway, has announced half a dozen layoffs. CTO Hunter Bridges announced…

CTO Hunter Bridges announced the redundancies on X/Twitter, saying, "this isn't a choice we wanted to make", but "due to volatile market conditions in the games industry and operational realities of our business, Evening Star is having to part ways with six team members". Watch on YouTube"This is a post that I was hoping to not have to write, but Evening Star has been swept up in the same turbulence that has affected so many of our peers in the games industry for the last year and a half," added CEO Dave Padilla on LinkedIn. "Despite our best efforts to secure another project to keep our team together, we are in the unfortunate situation of having to lay off some of the folks that have worked with us for the last few years on Penny's Big Breakaway.

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