Bossa Games is scaling back its operations, AKA suffering layoffs, a mere year after a third of its staff was let go. It plans on releasing Lost Skies before changing the model and becoming independent teams working on “novel game ideas.”
On LinkedIn (via Eurogamer), the studio brandished it as a “fundamental transformation of the games industry” without expanding on it further. Unlike the previous round of layoffs, it’s unclear how many people were affected in the relatively small developer.
The studio has been pretty inactive in pushing out games, with its last release being I Am Fish four years ago. The studio also received funding from Chinese media giant NetEase, but as of late, it’s been scaling back its investment footprint across the world.
It also doesn’t help that the studio no longer has the rights to the two games that put it on the map — I Am Bread and Surgeon Simulator — both of which are now owned by TinyBuild.
