Build A Rocket Boy Confirms Redundancy Process Following MindsEye Launch

Build A Rocket Boy Redundancies: The Edinburgh-based studio behind the recently released action-adventure game MindsEye, has confirmed it is undertaking a process of internal changes that will likely result in redundancies. The news comes just two weeks after the high-profile launch of the studio’s debut title.

In a statement provided to several games industry publications, including GamesIndustry.biz and IGN, the company confirmed it has “had to make the painful decision to notify our hardworking team of some internal changes.”

While the studio has not confirmed the exact number of roles at risk, reports from sources suggest the move could impact over 100 employees, as the company has initiated the 45-day consultation process required under UK law when proposing 100 or more redundancies.

In its official statement, Build A Rocket Boy elaborated on the decision: “While we are working to reassign roles for as many of those impacted by these changes as possible, sadly we are initiating a formal consultation process that may result in redundancies. This decision has not been made lightly, and we are committed to handling this process with transparency, fairness, and respect for all employees.”

The studio also linked the changes to the future development of its debut game, adding that the shift “allows us to focus on delivering ongoing updates and performance optimization for MindsEye, while also ensuring the long-term success of Build A Rocket Boy’s future ambitions.”

MindsEye has suffered – in my opinion quite unfairly – at the hands of the online games community, with savage reviews, multiple content creators lambasting the game and the studio, and multiple refund requests impacting the launch of the game and early reactions to a hugely ambitious project.

This is undoubtedly difficult news for the talented team at Build A Rocket Boy and for the wider Scottish games community. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this announcement.

A Call to the Scottish Games Community

In light of this news, the Scottish Games Network is issuing a call to all studios across Scotland and beyond who are currently recruiting. If you have open roles, please get in touch with us. We want to do everything we can to help connect the talented individuals affected by this decision with new opportunities within our ecosystem.

Please contact us directly with any relevant vacancies, and we will share this information directly and confidentially with those looking for their next role.

For anyone affected by these redundancies, please know that the Scottish games community is here to support you. We invite you to join the Scottish Games Network Discord, which has a dedicated ‘Looking For Work’ channel where you can connect with peers, share opportunities, and find support. You can join the community here: https://discord.gg/kCpwVrRAzk.

Let’s do what our community does best and rally to support our friends, colleagues and fellow game creators.

#BARB #BuildARocketBoy #edinburgh #games #MindsEye #redundancies #scotland

Editing roles impacted at 10 NEWS FIRST amid further centralised operations

https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2025/06/17/editing-roles-impacted-at-10-news-first-amid-further-centralised-operations/?feed_id=214786

#10NewsBrisbane #10NewsFirst #10NewsPlus #Channel10 #MartinWhite #NewsEditors #redundancies

End Unnecessary Redundancies at Newcastle University!

A petition is being circulated to halt a programme of redundancies at Newcastle University. Academic staff positions are being cut while the University, like so many others, suffers Death by a Thousand Managers. I understand that staff in Physics are directly threatened by the plans.

Here is the description of the issue you can find on the petition:

Newcastle University staff are in dispute with their senior management over the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling the future of our institution. We call on the University Executive Board (UEB) to abandon this destructive policy.

On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues were summoned at short notice to meetings with UEB where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. In an unpleasant twist, they will be forced to compete against each other in an academic equivalent of ‘The Hunger Games.’ 

To add insult to injury, on the day staff were threatened with redundancy they were also invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session. ‘Let your pen dance across the page,’ they were told, as ‘a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.’ 

Such crassness is emblematic of the disregard for genuine staff wellbeing that has dogged this unhappy episode. For example, for migrant staff members recruited only months previously, after paying for skilled worker visas, the NHS surcharge, and moving young families from abroad, dismissal threatens the loss of all that, and even deportation. 

For many more, these redundancies will be career-ending. But even for those not immediately at risk, the climate of uncertainty and fear unleashed by UEB is demoralising. As one academic put it, this ‘callous’ policy shows ‘no thought to people as people; we are just figures on a spreadsheet.’

We recognise that this is a tough financial environment for universities. But Newcastle has a relatively strong cash and borrowing position. Through voluntary redundancies and other cost-cutting measures, we have achieved £15.8m of savings against a target of £20m. Nevertheless, UEB is pressing ahead with compulsory redundancies, even though other institutions have stepped back. 

There are other options. Debts could be renegotiated and the pace of cuts slowed. Recently announced capital expenditure projects – including a £274m student accommodation block replete with luxuries like a cinema and gym, and even plans for a campus in India – should be reviewed or delayed. 

Costs could also be cut by pruning management salaries and structures. Since tuition-fee rises in 2012, the number of staff drawing six-figure pay-cheques has mushroomed. 

Worried about their own futures and the future of the university, hard-working frontline staff are taking industrial action. As a result of the turmoil unleashed by what the UEB euphemistically calls ‘Workforce Resizing,’ many academics are looking for jobs elsewhere and students are seeking to transfer to other universities. Reputational damage will make future staff and student recruitment harder. Current redundancy plans risk forcing our great university into a death cycle. 

We urge the University Executive Board to abandon these cuts and work with all their colleagues to secure the future of Newcastle University.

Please sign the petition here.

#NewcastleUniversity #Redundancies #UniversityAndCollegesUnion

#britishsteel #china #industry #uk #britain #scunthorpe #redundancies #steel #jingye
Something’s slightly wrong here. British Steel owned by the Chinese company, Jingye. I’m not against international cooperation, but China isn’t exactly top of our friendly country list. Steel production’s a pretty important industry, and we shouldn’t be relying on China. In a quote from “Blackadder” it’s like putting your “John Thomas” in the hands of a lunatic with a pair of scissors.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjryeqrnldvo

#elonmusk #musk #doge #government #republican #redundancies #usa #america #unitedstates #spaceX
Elon’s on here, if you’re bored and want to congratulate him on the latest Starship launch…
https://thepit.social/@peter/114117645667883914

#musk #elonmusk #doge #usa #america #unitedstates #trump #donaldtrump #redundancies #layoffs #email #jobs #muskemail #costcutting #moneysaving
Musk getting the level of respect he well and truly deserves. Hopefully he received a few emails telling him where to insert his Falcon Nine’s.

Key US agencies tell staff not to answer Musk email on what they did last week https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0qrj20g5vo

#trump #donaldtrump #musk #elonmusk #president #presidentmusk #republican #doge #usa #america #unitedstates #work #redundancies #federalworkers #guns #arms #weapons #firearms #guncontrol #secondamendment #trumpcoup #trumpadministration
In a country full of guns, comrade Trump and president Musk are playing a high risk game p*ssing so many people off. Disgruntled employees and weapons aren’t a good mix…

List accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr72n1yyj30o

High end #Broadcast equipment manufacturer #Videndum based in #Suffolk #England (which has existed in various forms literally since movie cameras were first invented, and has supplied a lot of equipment to the #BBC and other UK and international #broadcasters plans to make 80 #redundancies (this suggests a knock on effect from a shrinking market, possibly due to #AI further eliminating production techniques that used more humans)

https://archive.ph/5qcCe

Network 10’s Traffic Department Outsourcing Results in Queensland Job Cuts

https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2024/11/20/network-10s-traffic-department-outsourcing-results-in-queensland-job-cuts/?feed_id=200492

#Channel10 #Network10 #redundancies

Klarna to make nearly 2000 people redundant because bosses choose derivative marketing and lying to customers instead of employing real humans.

Oh, but they're going to pay the remaining people more. While the customers get a shitter service. And the remaining staff have to clean up AI's mess 🙄

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80e1gp9m9zo

#GenAI #Redundancies #Capitalism

Everyday there's a headline that says Health is underfunded & ##NactionalFirst's answer is "If no one does the work no one can spend the money"

#RNZ: More cuts to come: Health NZ asking for more voluntary #redundancies https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526389/more-cuts-to-come-health-nz-asking-for-more-voluntary-redundancies
#nzpol

My cartoon in yesterday's The Post, The Press and Waikato Times. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350282989/cartoon-may-20

With all the redundancies in our major city the knock on effect to businesses will be felt during the winter period.

#NzPol #NationalParty #ActParty #NzFirst #Redundancies #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Government

#AcademicVenting We now have a GoFundMe for our Goldsmiths #UCU hardship fund, due to 50% salary reductions for marking boycott. If you are in HE and in your union, perhaps you could ask your branch whether they could contribute? Feel awkward about saying this but: every donation welcome.

#Redundancies #HE @ucu

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-goldsmiths-ucu-fight-mass-redundancies

Sunday morning thoughts. Ironing and packing done, breakfast and coffee consumed, I'm looking forward to lunch with my love before heading to #Whakatū for #work. As the economy dips and the world of work evolves, Sunday afternoons are becoming my Monday mornings, as I chase work in a #contracting market (in both senses). After four #redundancies myself, I feel for those facing that prospect right now. Going solo has given me options but uncertainty remains.

"Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack"

The scale of forced redundancies in English Higher Education is currently unbelievable, & it's mostly arts, humanities & critical social sciences affected.

#UK #HigherEducation #Redundancies #Goldsmiths

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral

I had planned on doing some #solareclipse coverage today (and I did do a couple of interviews on BBC News and 5 Live), but I lost enthusiasm when - exactly as predicted - we got an email this morning announcing another round of voluntary #redundancies at work. Not unexpected, given the state of the sector and the recent cancelled promotion round, but just argh. I need a new career.

Upsetting but predictable news coming out of Reach PLC this week - less than a month after they confirmed their operating profit for the year is £95 mill approx. Solidarity with all those whose livelihoods are at risk.

#KnowTheMedia #ChangeTheMedia #Reach #NUJ #redundancies

https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/reach-announces-further-job-cuts.html

UCU members at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) will begin the first of six days of strikes tomorrow over £4million cuts, including £3 million from the staffing budget meaning that up to 44 roles are being made redundant.

The job losses include staff working in teaching, research, management and administration, and in ensuring academic quality, as well as essential services like student support.

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13238/Strike-on-tomorrow-at-University-of-the-Highlands-and-Islands-in-dispute-over-cuts-and-job-losses?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&campaign=UHI

#UCU #HigherEducation #UHI #Redundancies