Day9 opens a development studio to work on multiplayer PC strategy game

StarCraft legend and Twitch streamer makes his own game
Day9 opens a development studio to work on multiplayer PC strategy game
Day9 opens a development studio to work on multiplayer PC strategy game /

Sean “Day9” Plott is the latest Twitch streamer to get started on developing their very own video game. Known for his digestible breakdowns of complex strategy games like StarCraft and Magic: The Gathering Arena, the analytical streamer has founded his own game studio, which has been fully funded, according to his announcement.

In a post on Twitter, which primarily serves as a hiring call, Day9 wrote: “If you have interest in working with me on a multiplayer PC strategy game, we have job openings for a Technical Director & Art Director.”

Day9 joined Twitch during the early days of StarCraft 2 and made a name for himself as one of the most important strategy game streamers on the platform. He’s a former professional player in StarCraft: Brood War. His first big streaming success was a show called Day9 Daily, in which he’d analyze build orders and strategies and break them down for viewers step by step.

In a short YouTube video about the topic, Plott kept his lips tightly sealed about what exactly the project entails: “This is not a game announcement. This is a hiring announcement. All the other stuff, all the other things, I’m going to pretty much say nothing.”

In case you think you have what it takes to help Day9 realize his video game, you can apply for the positions mentioned above on his website.

This is not Day9’s first rodeo in game development overall: In 2013, Day9 announced he’d joined Artillery Games to make a browser RTS game called Guardians of Atlas, though the project seemed to go nowhere and he left the company again in 2016 without the game ever coming out.

He’s not the only member of the Plott family to work on a strategy game either: Day9’s mother is a founding member of Frost Giant, a studio composed of former Blizzard employees working on a spiritual successor to StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3 called Stormgate, which is having closed playtests at the moment.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg