Lifeless House co-creator Glen Schofield is leaving Putting Distance Studios lower than a 12 months after The Callisto Protocol‘s launch.
Lifeless House co-creator Glen Schofield based Putting Distance Studios in 2019
Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier reported that Putting Distance Studios Chief Government Officer Glen Schofield is leaving the studio, noting {that a} consultant of Korean writer Krafton — of which Putting Distance is a subsidiary of — said that Schofield has “determined to pursue new alternatives,” and that the “studio’s plans stay unaffected.”
Chief Improvement Officer Steve Papoutsis would be the new CEO. Schofield additionally launched an announcement about his departure.
“Creating Putting Distance Studios has been an unbelievable journey and I’m so happy with what we’ve achieved with The Callisto Protocol, a sport near my coronary heart,” Schofield states. “Whereas pursuing a brand new journey is thrilling, leaving SDS is bittersweet, however I do know the studio is in glorious palms. Steve and I’m going method again to working at Visceral Video games. I noticed how profitable he was in taking the reins after my departure then and the way he continued the studio’s success and development. That’s how I do know he’s the one to steer the studio into its subsequent chapter.”
The entire assertion from Krafton is as follows:
“After efficiently founding Putting Distance Studios, Glen Schofield has determined to pursue new alternatives. Steve Papoutsis, who beforehand served as Chief Improvement Officer and Normal Supervisor for SDS, Chief Working Officer at Baobab Studios, and Vice President, Normal Supervisor, and Government Producer at Digital Arts, has been appointed CEO of the studio. There isn’t a higher particular person than Steve to information SDS by means of this transition. His lengthy skilled collaboration with Glen extends all the best way again to once they first labored collectively at Crystal Dynamics within the late ’90s earlier than reuniting at Visceral Video games.
“Glen’s contributions throughout his time at Krafton have been invaluable. He constructed an ace workforce of skills at SDS and set a excessive customary for the work they did collectively daily. We’re assured within the workforce’s continued success due to the numerous affect Glen has had, and for that we owe him our deepest gratitude. We’ve got been rigorously planning for the transition to make sure a easy handover and uninterrupted operations. Putting Distance Studios is dedicated to supporting its extremely gifted workforce. Our workers stays a prime precedence throughout this transition as they’re the spine of our success. The studio’s plans stay unaffected, and its focus is to proceed producing distinctive content material.”
The Callisto Protocol was first launched on December 1 of final 12 months. It acquired largely combined opinions from critics and gamers and reportedly failed to fulfill Krafton’s gross sales expectations. On account of this, Putting Distance suffered layoffs final month, with 32 staff in complete being laid off as Krafton applied “strategic modifications that realign the studio’s priorities.”