Seattle-based video game studio Galvanic Games is shutting down.
Patrick Morgan, the president and founder of Galvanic Games, announced the closure in a Friday message posted to X. According to Morgan, the studio didn't have enough remaining runway to take on new projects.
"There is a certain bittersweetness to knowing that we accomplished all the things we set out to do when we founded Galvanic in 2015," Morgan wrote. "I may never get over the irony of spending a decade building my ideal team, only for it to end after our most productive year."
Morgan also posted a note on LinkedIn to give a boost to 10 laid-off employees now looking for work. Galvanic Games' website lists 12 total employees.
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Galvanic Games is behind the survival game Wizard with a Gun and the exploration game Some Distant Memory, among others. Galvanic Games released Wizard with a Gun in October, and the game got a strong review from the gaming publication PC Gamer.
Morgan spent more than three years as a game developer at Tag Creative Studio before starting Galvanic Games, according to his LinkedIn page.
The video game industry has been hard-hit in the last year as studios come down from a pandemic-era boom. Big names like Nintendo, Bungie, Riot Games and Take Two have all laid off employees recently. According to a May report from industry publication Eurogamer, there have been more than 10,000 layoffs in the video game industry this year — nearly as many as in all of 2023.
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