Former Kerbal Space Program devs working at Valve

Former members of the team that made Kerbal Space Program have been snapped up by Valve and are now working at the studio, with the news coming via ex-Valve dev Roger Lundeen.

Lundeen made the claim on Game Dev Unchained, where he said: "[Valve] is still buying up mod teams. There's the group of... the modders who made—is it Kerbal Space Station? ... I think it just happened about four or five months ago, six months ago. They just gave that entire team jobs."

"Those guys are out of Mexico, I believe. I don't know how many have gone up to Valve, but I just heard that the crew that made Kerbal Space Station [got hired]," he then added.

While he might have gotten the name of the game wrong, Lundeen was otherwise correct. Valve responded to the news with confirmation that some former members of the Kerbal Space Program team were now with the company, and that: "We'll be announcing more soon."

Update: Squad reached out to us to as an earlier version of the story indicated that the entire Kerbal Space Program team had somehow defected to Valve. That is not the case. In fact, the individuals joining Valve have not been working for Squad during the last year.

"We want to clarify that Squad is not joining Valve, and we continue to be an independent studio with the core KSP team remaining at Squad, hard at work on the improved KSP for consoles port, Update 1.3 and the Making History Expansion. The KSP community shouldn't be concerned about this news having any impact on the game."