No Man’s Sky developer leaves Hello Games to work on another space exploration game

It looks like Hello Games has lost one of their designers to another space exploration game. Gareth Bourn, a designer from Hello Games, has moved on to Foundry42 – the developer behind Star Citizen.

What's interesting about this move is that Star Citizen and No Man's Sky are extremely similar games – except Star Citizen has a number of features that No Man's Sky failed to deliver on. His move also brings into question the state of Hello Games in general.

Prior to leaving Hello Games, Bourn had worked there for six years on both No Man's Sky and Joe Danger, Bourn's LinkedIn page (iDigitalTimes) detailed the job switch came at the beginning of the month, shortly after Hello Games dealt with a 'hacked' social account.

At the end of October, someone used the official Hello Games Twitter account to call No Man's Sky a mistake. It was unclear who tweeted it, but emails pointed at a mysterious hacker, a disgruntled employee or the creator of No Man's Sky, Sean Murray. It was never clarified as to who did it, but Murray broke his three-month-long silence since the game's release to say it was a hack.