Lay-Offs Announced at Frontier Developments as Kickstarter Continues

<p>Frontier Developments has announced that last week it laid off 14 of its 233 staff&comma; with cuts affecting employees involved in the disciplines of art&comma; animation&comma; and audio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-12-17-layoffs-at-elite-dangerous-developer-frontier" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&comma; Managing Director David Walsh said that the lay-offs had taken place due to &&num;8220&semi;the changing mix of skills requirements for our current and future projects &&num;8211&semi; it is not a reflection on the company&&num;8217&semi;s prospects&comma; which remain healthy&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We are actively recruiting to shift the balance of skills we have within the company to enable us to deliver the set of projects currently in development&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of these current projects is <em>Elite&colon; Dangerous<&sol;em>&comma; a proposed new entry in the space trading <em>Elite<&sol;em> series&comma; which started life in 1984 with the original <em>Elite<&sol;em>&period; A Kickstarter campaign to fund the game is currently being run by the developer&comma; who is asking for a minimum of £1&period;25 million to create the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The campaign has yet to meet its goal&comma; although it still has 18 days to do so&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear as of yet how the news of these lay-offs at Frontier will affect its Kickstarter campaign&comma; if at all&period; The good news is that if you identify the threat of insolvency in good time&comma; there are steps you can take to prevent it&period; With the right approach and help from an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;businessinsolvencyadvice&period;org&period;uk&sol;">expert insolvency practitioner<&sol;a>&comma; you can even lift your business out of insolvency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;17&sol;elite-dangerous-developer-frontier-has-layoffs-in-middle-of-kic&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Joystiq<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;