The Witcher spin-off studio hit with significant layoffs after project restructure
Dꦍepartures are linked to changes to the studio's Witcher game

The Witcher's P𝔍roject Si🎃rius studio appears to have been hit with layoffs.
Last week on May 11, CD Projekt announced The Witcher's Project Sirius was effectively back on🅘 track, having been successfully rebooted from its original vision. A day later on May 12, staff at The Mo�ꦑ�lasses Flood, the CD Projekt-owned studio heading up the project, took to social media to reveal they'd been laid off from the developer. A tweet from Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach claims that 29 developers were affected.
Update: CDPR confirms layoffs at Witcher spin-off studio Molasses Flood. Says 29 devs affected and calls it the result of the game's r🌌eboot. "Because the project changed, so has the composition of the team that's working on it – mainly on The Molasses Flood's side." pic.twitter.com/F0HwPcIYrx
An unattributed quote states that "because the project changed, so has the comp🍷osition of the team that's working on it - mainly o🎃n The Molasses Flood's side."
Officially, we've heard no word from The Molasses Flood or CD Projekt announcing layoffs for its developers. Former technical narrative designer Robert Bailey revealed via his personal Twitter account that he'd unfort🥀unately been lai🔴d off from the Boston-based studio last week.
Yesterday I was laid off from Molasses Flood.It's not as fun to update the bio this time.I enjoyed the work I'd been doing until my last day and would love to keep doing that.If anyone has any leads on a narrativꦕe and/or tech design position I'd be happy to take a look.
Elsewhere, it seems like The Molasses Flood's art department has also been impacted by the layoffs. Environment artist Eleanore Falck announced via her Twitter accouไnt that she'd been laid off alongside Bailey on the same day, and both are now on the hunt for new opportunities.
I'm sad to say I was laid off from The Mꦑolasses Flood. I'm starting to look for new opportun🅘ities now. If you know of a friendly and fun studio that is working on a stylized game and needs an environment artist, please let me know!//t.co/WG9fyS3hBV//t.co/PQ9eJBRLa5
It appeꦛars that the layoffs have had a significant impact, as sites including LinkedIn suggest that The Molasses Flood only employed a few dozen developers before the layoffs. That could mean a large proportion of the workforce has departed the studio🐲.
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