Bellevue-based video game studio Hidden Path Entertainment has laid off 44 employees.
Hidden Path co-founder and CEO Jeff Pobst posted about the layoffs Wednesday on LinkedIn.
"For over six months, our team at Hidden Path Entertainment has been in numerous active discussions to find replacement funding for an exciting RPG project," Pobst wrote. "In the face of a challenging environment, we now have no choice but to pause development on that project and reduce the company size until we have an opportunity to return to it."
Pobst also posted a link to a spreadsheet listing the laid-off employees, with the goal of helping them find new jobs. The roles included designers, artists and programmers, among others.
In an email to the Business Journal, Pobst said the company had no comment beyond the post.
Hidden Path was founded in 2006. On its website, the company says it works on independently funded and publisher-funded projects, and has both in-office and remote employees. The studio has worked on popular titles like Defense Grid and Counter-Strike.
Hidden Path has 79 employees listed on LinkedIn.
"Those who are impacted have played key roles in the development of a number of awesome projects," Pobst wrote in the post. "We are determined to do what we can to support these talented professionals so that they can resume their careers elsewhere, all while hoping we can work with them again soon."
Multiple local video game companies have made layoffs in recent months. Bellevue-based Bungie, which is behind Halo and Destiny, laid off employees in October, while League of Legends developer Riot Games, which is based in Los Angeles but is opening a new Mercer Island location, laid off about 530 employees in January. Amazon, meanwhile, laid off just over 180 employees in its gaming division in November.
