Last week, I was happy to hear that Project Sirius, the witcher spin-off game in development at CD Projekt’s Molasses Flood studio, was back on track. (opens in new tab) After running into some trouble earlier this year. However, 29 of his people, including most of The Molasses Flood’s employees, were laid off as a result of the project’s new direction change.
Sirius was developed by Molasses Flood with support from CD Projekt Red and announced in October 2022 as a “revolutionary interpretation of The Witcher universe”. CD Projekt had acquired Molasses Flood for past games like The Flame in the Flood and Drake Hollow six months earlier in April 2022. (opens in new tab).
In March, however, CD Projekt wrote off a significant portion of its previous game development spending, said it was assessing the game’s “scope and commercial potential” and was “developing a new framework” to do so. rice field.
A regulatory report released last week announced that “work to define a new framework for Project Sirius” had been completed, resulting in the reversal of some of the financial losses. Shortly after, however, several Morases Flood employees said on social media that they had been laid off. CD Projekt confirmed the layoffs in a statement sent to PC Gamer today.
“As the project has changed, so has the composition of the team working on it, mainly on The Molasses Flood side,” said a company representative. “The specific number of employees we let go is 21 US team members and 8 Polish team members (working on projects outside the US).”
Got fired from the molasses flood yesterday. It’s not so much fun to update your bio this time. The work I did until the last day was fun, so I would like to continue. If anyone has any clues about the story and clues/or technical design positions, I’d be happy to take a look.May 12, 2023
It’s a shame you got fired from Molasses Flood. I am now looking for new opportunities. If you know of a friendly and fun studio working on a stylized game and in need of an environment artist, let us know! https://t.co/WG9fyS3hBVhttps://t.co/PQ9eJBRLa5May 12, 2023
Yesterday was my last day at The Molasses Flood due to layoffs. I’ve worked with some of the best people on a multiplayer witcher title that I’m very proud of. If anyone needs a senior world builder or environment artist, let us know. https://t.co/BKlCYqEmYzpic.twitter.com/YH6qEUV7v8May 12, 2023
CD Projekt declined to comment further, but laying off 29 employees could be a huge blow to the development team. Sirius had more than 60 of his staff working on it when it was announced last year, and there’s no way of knowing how much the team has grown since then, but the short time between announcement and stranding meant there wasn’t much to the expansion. It didn’t take long. Business-focused social media platform LinkedIn (opens in new tab) Currently, The Molasses Flood is listed as having between 11 and 50 employees. This is by no means an exact number, but it’s clearly a relatively small studio.
Project Sirius is one of five Witcher games currently in development at CD Projekt.There’s also an all-new his Witcher trilogy (opens in new tab) A remake of the original The Witcher is in the works (opens in new tab) An RPG being “rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5”.
