Sean 'Day9' Plott launches his own game studio to make a 'multiplayer PC strategy game'
As a former StarCraft pro and current PC Gaming Show(opens in new tab) host, Sean «Day9» Plott is well known for playing games and talking about games. And now he's getting into the business of making games: Plott announced on Twitter that he's founded a new game studio called—and, honestly, I'm not sure if this is permanent or what, but it's what it says on the website—Day9's Game Studio(opens in new tab).
«I founded a game studio, we’re funded, and we’re hiring!» Plott tweeted. «If you have interest in working with me on a multiplayer PC strategy game, we have job openings for a Technical Director & Art Director.»
I founded a game studio, we’re funded, and we’re hiring! If you have interest in working with me on a multiplayer PC strategy game, we have job openings for a Technical Director & Art Director. Feel free to retweet, share, ping your buddies, or apply here: https://t.co/9kKKoosw5WApril 14, 2023
This actually won't be Plott's first foray into the world of making games: He spent several years at Artillery Games as a designer on the MOBA-RTS hybrid Guardians of Atlas, before departing the studio in 2017.
Neither job listing says anything about the nature of Plott's game, but they do reveal that it will be built using Unreal Engine and, more interestingly, that Plott and a number of presumably hand-picked associates have been «quietly prototyping a multiplayer PC strategy game for a few years.» Despite our contractually-enforceable closeness, Plott also declined to tell us anything about it, but he did answer a few questions when we spoke to him yesterday:
PC Gamer: Can you give us a hint on the kind of genre you're going to be tackling? Obviously most people's expectation is going to be RTS.
Sean «Day9» Plott:
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