Update: Sparkypants founder Jason Coleman gave the following statement to Gamasutra.
The news comes courtesy of multiple Twitter posts from former employees today, one of whom noted that “most of Sparkypants has been laid off.”
Any companies lucky enough to hire them will be glad they did and they will be sorely missed at Sparkypants.”
Word is spreading today that Sparkypants, developer of the free-to-play real-time strategy game Dropzone, has laid off a number of staffers from its studio in Baltimore, Maryland.