Alex Muir 💙

Just in case.... Ya know....

@LeafyGH Thanks <3 doesn't seem like there are many of us left. Our team was amazing... Really a special moment in the history of gaming IMO

@AlexMuirQA I’ll always see you as one of the GOATs of the Festival team

Hey y'all... Ya so I got laid off too from Fortnite Festival. All I've ever wanted to do was make cool games for people that help them feel a little bit better or happier in their day... It's so sad that it's this hard to do just that.

@DANNYonPC Ain't that the shit.

@AlexMuirQA You maybe made the players happier, but not the shareholders :/ fucked up industry

@JMature2099845 Thank you <3 hearing stuff like this is amazing. Y'all are the entire reason I got up everyday and did the best work I did. As for ROG if they need me they know where I am lol. Gonna give it some time before I reach out

@AlexMuirQA Also, Fortnite Festival is why I continue to play Fortnite Festival and it sucks that you were laid off. Your work on Festival has been amazing and the fans want to thank you. Maybe Red Octane Games could be a good company to work for now

@Nanananafone Thank you <3 players like you are the whole reason I got up every morning and did the best I could to make the coolest game I could

@AlexMuirQA festival genuinely means the world to me and im eternally grateful for the work you and your colleagues have put into trying to make it the best it can be. heartbreaking to see so many ungodly passionate people have their livelihoods ripped away from them, wishing you the best

@sir_parisii Lol not going to take that off the table. I feel very knowledgeable about how to run all of this after taking the last 15 years to study every inch of this industry but even then I still don't feel ready. But I suppose who does, right? Lol

@AlexMuirQA MAKE A STUDIO

@cyaaato Thank you so much Cat. Working with you has been one of the most fun things I've ever done in my career. I'm really going to miss our team <3

@AlexMuirQA I'm so sorry. You are brilliant at QA. Your insight into processes, platforms, and game development were always so impactful on Festival. It was great working with you and I hope we get to work together again soon

Battle stage was the first feature I ever Owned and now seeing it gone sucks but being laid off too from being able to ever make Festival what is could be hurts even more. Working with Harmonix was a dream come true for me. I'll never forget it and I will always miss it. <3

@SkinwalkerdT @ThisIsITalk That's the whole reason I got up every day and worked as hard as I can <3 thank you

@AlexMuirQA @ThisIsITalk I’m so sorry, Fortnite Festival is one of my favourite modes when i like to chill and not get stressed from regular matches

@RetroCultMods Thank you. That means a lot to me <3

@AlexMuirQA Wait WHAT?? Your passion for this community is so clear. Man I'm so sorry.

@IAmSimpleGuy123 Thats the whole reason I work in games. Thank you for playing <3

@AlexMuirQA Thank you for the work you and your team did get to do ❤️ definitely brightened up my day to play some festival during a difficult time adapting to college. I hope you find work soon

@EquinoxDrums Me too. I know I didn't do anything wrong, it was the company as a whole. I just only ever wanted to make the best game possible and even though I think we messed up a lot, I'm still going to miss working on it everyday

@AlexMuirQA NOOOO Im sorry Alex. This all sucks so much, Hoping you can smoothly find another job within the industry 😢🫶

Epic did a big round of layoffs this morning and my position was impacted. If anyone has any leads for backend engineering and DevOps, please point them my way.

guess who got laid off today! 🫠 i am genuinely so confused and bewildered like, i spent the past week debugging the rivalry system while recovering from pneumonia and just in the past few days i’ve had multiple directors tell me how much they appreciate everything i do

1,000 epic employees. laid off. that’s not just a statistic… that’s thousands of lives suddenly thrown into uncertainty, families trying to figure out what comes next, and people who poured their time, passion, and creativity into something being left without stability. it’s especially painful knowing that the very people who make games meaningful- the artists, developers, designers, and teams behind the scenes are the ones bearing the brunt of these decisions. my heart is with every employee and family impacted, and i genuinely hope brighter & more stable opportunities find them soon 🫂

Festival Battle Stage genuinely changed my life. I met my girlfriend @kallieslays at the FNCS 2024 Battle Stage tournament, she was another competitor. This April will be our 1 year anniversary. We're planning to move in together soon. Thank you Fortnite Festival Battle Stage and everybody who was behind it. The tournament itself wasn't perfect, but it goes so much farther beyond the tournament itself. I met so many lovely, like-minded people in the community from that event. Everyone that I had contact with at Epic was lovely as well, a pleasure to talk to. I'm beyond grateful that I was given this opportunity and I'm sad to see the mode go away.

@synaesthesiajp I'm going to miss working with you JP, you have inspired me and pushed me in a production journey that I won't be able to thank you enough <3

I was impacted by today’s layoffs at Epic. Truly came out of nowhere for me. Right before my birthday, too. I really liked Epic. Really liked the teams. Really liked what we were doing in music. So it’s all a shock. Time to breathe for a minute. Then onward and upward.

fortnite festival portrait update is fucking awesome. this game will be just fine

Not the thing Ive been working on but so fucking proud of my team that did make this happen <3 go give it a go..... On the go.... I hate myself