Apex Legends lead map designers leave Respawn after releasing World\u2019s Edge, Olympus, Storm Point Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends map designers Dave Osei and Rodney Reece, the minds behind Olympus, World\u2019s Edge, and Storm Point, have left Respawn Entertainment on the third anniversary of the game\u2019s release. Announced early on February 4, the pair are both leaving Respawn Entertainment ahead of the release of Season 12. Dave Osei has been a part of the Apex design team since July 2019 and was elevated from Senior Level Designer to Lead Level Designer during that time. Reece joined the company back in 2017 and also started as a Senior Level Designer, before becoming a Principal Designer in 2020. Apex Legends lead map designers leave Respawn Entertainment Both men took to Twitter to address fans of the game and thank them for their support over the time they spent with the company. For Reece, who worked primarily on World\u2019s Edge and Storm Point, he noted that the fans always inspired him to go the extra mile for those maps. \u201cTo all the players out there who gave their time to play my silly levels: thank you. You were always in my mind and made me work harder.\u201d Today is my last day at @Respawn @PlayApex has been an amazing adventure and I am exited to be a fan from the outside. To all the players out there who gave their time to play my silly levels: thank you. You were always in my mind and made me work harder. pic.twitter.com\/9svMwRgR0P \u2014 Rodney Reece (@RodneyReece7) February 4, 2022 Osei, on the other hand, focused primarily on the creation of Olympus and eventually leading Apex\u2019s maps team and what the meant for him personally: \u201cI\u2019m so damn proud of what the team and I were able to accomplish over these few years on Apex. Building Olympus and leading the maps team are highlights of my career.\u201d With S12 wrapped up, today is my last day at Respawn. I\u2019m so damn proud of what the team and I were able to accomplish over these few years on Apex. Building Olympus and leading the maps team are highlights of my career. Thanks to Respawn and all who believed in this game \u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/9tl1tkAsZs \u2014 Dave Osei (@videorespawn) February 4, 2022 These are only the latest two names on the list of Respawn\u2019s growing number of departures over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends lead map designers leave Respawn after releasing World\u2019s Edge, Olympus, Storm Point Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends map designers Dave Osei and Rodney Reece, the minds behind Olympus, World\u2019s Edge, and Storm Point, have left Respawn Entertainment on the third anniversary of the game\u2019s release. Announced early on February 4, the pair are both leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}