Boss Key Productions co-founder Cliff Bleszinski tweeted Friday that former employer Epic Games is trying to poach his current staff.
“Hey @epicgames, could you please stop trying to hire away my team?” he wrote. “We just launched @Radical_Heights on #UE4 and are really happy with how it’s going.”
“There’s room at [sic] this genre for more than a few games Smh,” he added.
Epic Games helped popularize the battle royale genre last year with its megahit “Fortnite.” Boss Key Productions launched its own free-to-play ’80s-themed battle royale shooter, “Radical Heights,” last week. It’s in what Boss Key is calling “X-Treme Early Access,” which means it still needs a lot of work. It doesn’t even have female character avatars yet. Bleszinski posted a teaser image on Twitter Saturday and said they’re “forthcoming.”
“We have plenty of ways to make it our own but they may never...
“Hey @epicgames, could you please stop trying to hire away my team?” he wrote. “We just launched @Radical_Heights on #UE4 and are really happy with how it’s going.”
“There’s room at [sic] this genre for more than a few games Smh,” he added.
Epic Games helped popularize the battle royale genre last year with its megahit “Fortnite.” Boss Key Productions launched its own free-to-play ’80s-themed battle royale shooter, “Radical Heights,” last week. It’s in what Boss Key is calling “X-Treme Early Access,” which means it still needs a lot of work. It doesn’t even have female character avatars yet. Bleszinski posted a teaser image on Twitter Saturday and said they’re “forthcoming.”
“We have plenty of ways to make it our own but they may never...
- 4/16/2018
- by Stefanie Fogel
- Variety Film + TV
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