CD Projekt Pink has introduced its acquisition of The Molasses Flood, a US studio finest identified for its survival titles akin to The Flame within the Flood. As a part of the CD Projekt group, The Molasses Flood will work on an “formidable venture” that’s “primarily based on one in every of CD Projekt’s IPs.”
In a statement printed as a part of the acquisition announcement, President and joint CEO of CD Projekt Pink, Adam Kiciński, stated, “We’re all the time looking out for groups who make video games with coronary heart. The Molasses Flood share our ardour for online game growth, they’re skilled, quality-oriented, and have nice technological perception. I’m satisfied they are going to convey a whole lot of expertise and willpower to the Group.”
That is CD Projekt Pink’s second acquisition this 12 months, after it acquired multiplayer specialist studio and long-standing growth companion, Digital Scapes, back in March. The association appears to be fairly completely different, although. In contrast to Digital Scapes, The Molasses Flood will preserve its title and whereas it can work in “shut cooperation” with CD Projekt Pink, it can preserve its “present id” and never be merged with current groups.
In its personal assertion, The Molasses Flood echoed this message, saying that CD Projekt “made it clear that they weren’t seeking to merely soak up us” and that they’ll “get to maintain making video games primarily based on the identical rules which have all the time guided us: making video games with coronary heart constructed on wealthy gameplay programs”.
Forrest Dowling, Studio Head at The Molasses Flood, stated that the studio sees the acquisition as “an unbelievable alternative to achieve a a lot wider viewers by a collaboration with an organization we love, creating video games in worlds we love.”
Thrilling information for us at present! We have joined the CD PROJEKT household, and are engaged on a venture inside one in every of their current universes 😍🤯 pic.twitter.com/8jhWylIfKhOctober 22, 2021
Evaluation: What’s within the works?
CD Projekt Pink and The Molasses Flood didn’t reveal what precisely it’s that the studio might be engaged on, solely that it’s “a totally new recreation within the universe of an current CD Projekt IP”. Actually, that probably signifies that the “formidable venture” goes to be a spin-off of both The Witcher collection or Cyberpunk 2077.
The emphasis in each statements on The Molasses Flood holding its current id and its freedom to make video games “primarily based on the identical rules which have all the time guided us” does appear to recommend that whereas the studio might be working on the planet of one in every of CD Projekt Pink’s IPs, it’s not going to desert the spirit and mechanics of its earlier video games and will combine them.
The Molasses Flood is hiring for the venture and there are a number of postings on the developer’s website in the mean time. It’s laborious, nonetheless, to glean all that a lot from them with reference to what the sport might be. An inventory for a Lead Narrative Designer favors “expertise with large, unwieldy, excessive phrase depend, countless facet content material kind video games”, whereas requires Lead Gameplay and Engine Programmers say that have of delivery a multiplayer recreation can be a “good to have”.
That is all simply hypothesis in the mean time, in fact. We’ll have to attend a short time earlier than listening to extra particulars in regards to the recreation, with each studios saying that extra information will be anticipated sooner or later.
Because it’s working by itself venture, which means that The Molasses Flood isn’t being introduced in to contribute to the continued work on Cyberpunk 2077. Only some days in the past, CD Projekt Pink announced that the sport’s next-gen improve has been pushed to early 2022 somewhat than launching in late 2021 as deliberate. The following-gen improve of The Witcher 3 has additionally been pushed and is now anticipated in Q2 2022.