{"id":703,"date":"2025-05-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:09:09","slug":"yooka-laylee-dev-playtonic-is-the-latest-studio-hit-by-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/yooka-laylee-dev-playtonic-is-the-latest-studio-hit-by-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Yooka-Laylee Dev Playtonic Is The Latest Studio Hit By Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Others are &#8220;at risk&#8221; of losing jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A handful of staff at UK-based studio Playtonic, best known for creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/yooka-laylee\">Yooka-Laylee<\/a> and for forming the indie publishing label Playtonic Friends, are sharing messages on social media as they have been made &#8220;redundant&#8221; at the developer.<\/p>\n<p>We were first alerted to the news by a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/steves.fun\/post\/3lpp2js5m7c25\">Bluesky post<\/a> from former community manager Steve James, who left the company just two weeks ago (on his own terms).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/yooka-laylee-dev-playtonic-is-the-latest-studio-hit-by-layoffs\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Others are &#8220;at risk&#8221; of losing jobs. A handful of staff at UK-based studio Playtonic, best known for creating Yooka-Laylee and for forming the indie publishing label Playtonic Friends, are sharing messages on social media as they have been made &#8220;redundant&#8221; at the developer. We were first alerted to the news by a Bluesky post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}