{"id":110738,"date":"2016-11-17T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110738"},"modified":"2016-11-17T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:37:58","slug":"no-mans-sky-designer-leaves-hello-games-to-work-on-star-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110738-no-mans-sky-designer-leaves-hello-games-to-work-on-star-citizen","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky designer leaves Hello Games to work on Star Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Hello Games employee Gareth Bourn has left the company to work on Star Citizen, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/garethjamesbourn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong> <\/a>page.<\/p>\n<p>Bourn&#8217;s role at Hello Games was both Designer and QA Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Bourn is now listed as a Live Designer for Foundry 42, the company currently working on Chris Roberts&#8217; ambitious Star Citizen project.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the controversial launch of No Man&#8217;s Sky, which suffered everything from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101448-the-massive-list-of-missing-features-in-no-mans-sky.html\" target=\"_blank\">player outrage<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105891-no-mans-sky-is-being-investigated-for-false-advertising.html\" target=\"_blank\">false advertising investigations<\/a><\/strong> to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109493-no-mans-sky-creator-breaks-silence-tweets-game-was-a-mistake.html\" target=\"_blank\">awkward social media situations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Star Citizen is no stranger to controversy either, with many backers frustrated at the game&#8217;s continuous delays despite its $100 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious space sim is still in Alpha, and like No Man&#8217;s Sky, Star Citizen has a list of ambitious expectations to meet upon launch.<\/p>\n<p>Some indie developers have commented on the hire, with Line of Defense designer Derek Smart <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsmart\/status\/796807382013739010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tweeting<\/strong> <\/a>that Bourn had &#8220;quit quietly from one sinking canoe to a sinking luxury cruise liner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105891-no-mans-sky-is-being-investigated-for-false-advertising.html\" target=\"_blank\">No Man\u2019s Sky is being investigated for false advertising<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A game designer from Hello Games has left the company to work on Star Citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":100740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,18517,9422,11828,7355],"class_list":["post-110738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-design","tag-developer","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-star-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}