MindsEye developer undergoing layoffs less than a month after launch

Build a Rocket Boy has confirmed erstwhile reports from IGN that it is undergoing layoffs little than a period aft the tumultuous merchandise of its archetypal crippled MindsEye.

The Verge reached retired to Build a Rocket Boy to corroborate the layoffs, but they did not respond. In a connection made to IGN, Build A Rocket Boy wrote:

We tin corroborate that we person had to marque the achy determination to notify our hardworking squad of immoderate interior changes astatine Build A Rocket Boy. While we are moving to reassign roles for arsenic galore of those impacted by these changes arsenic possible, sadly we are initiating a ceremonial consultation process that whitethorn effect successful redundancies. This determination has not been made lightly, and we are committed to handling this process with transparency, fairness, and respect for each employees. We volition supply further details to the squad implicit the coming weeks.

MindsEye is a caller futuristic, single-player communicative enactment game. It was billed arsenic the starting constituent successful an epic, interconnected beingness by its creator, erstwhile Rockstar Games shaper Leslie Benzies, who’s known for his enactment connected the GTA series. Its merchandise earlier this period was plagued by poor reviews, reports of large glitches, and adjacent sponsored streams being cancelled moments earlier they were acceptable to start.

MindsEye was expected to beryllium big. Build A Rocket Boy posted an in-depth roadmap filled with tons of caller contented updates stretched retired implicit the remainder of the year. There were besides plans to adhd multiplayer and open-world elements with further hopes that the game’s assemblage would measurement up and supply their ain labor.  “Hopefully immoderate [players] volition make compelling contented we tin past beforehand and marque that portion of our plans to propulsion to different players,” Benzies said in an interrogation with gameindustry.biz.

Build a Rocket Boy has not confirmed the fig of employees affected though IGN reporting suggested that astir 100 workers would beryllium impacted retired of a full headcount of astir 500. The institution said successful its connection it remains committed to delivering connected its promises for MindsEye. But that volition beryllium exceedingly hard successful a clime wherever immoderate caller crippled with this benignant of scope is warring against everlastingly games similar Fortnite and Roblox.