Build A Rocket Boy entersadministration after staff cuts

Build A Rocket Boy, the Edinburgh developer of MindsEye, entered administration on 23 September. Companies House now lists the company as "In Administration" and names two insolvency practitioners. The process puts decisions about the business in administrators' hands after another round of reported job losses. It does not establish that the studio has closed, or settle what happens to the game and any remaining employees.

GamesIndustry.biz reported the appointment on 25 September and obtained confirmation from Build A Rocket Boy that Opus Advisory Group was acting as administrator. The Companies House record names Allister Manson, whose address is at Opus Restructuring LLP, and Mark Harper as practitioners. Its filing history lists the appointment form on 25 September. The public record confirms the legal status, but does not yet set out a plan for the studio, its assets or its workforce.

Administration gives a company protection from action by creditors while an appointed practitioner takes control. Government guidance says the administrator can seek a rescue, sell the business, renegotiate contracts or make employees redundant; a proposal must be sent to creditors, employees and Companies House within eight weeks. Those are possible routes, not decisions announced for Build A Rocket Boy. The register still describes the company as being in administration rather than liquidation or dissolution.

Workers had already described further redundancies before the filing. PC Gamer reported on 16 September that several named employees said their roles were being made redundant, including artist Adam Ridsdale and VFX artist Jason Waller. Their accounts establish that those people were affected; they do not provide a verified total for the latest cuts. The administrators' appointment adds an urgent question for staff about who will remain employed and what the company can pay, but no published proposal answers it yet.

For players, the same uncertainty surrounds support for MindsEye, which launched on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Administration can end in a continuing business or a sale, as well as closure. Neither the registry entry nor Build A Rocket Boy's confirmation to GamesIndustry.biz says whether patches, online features or future content will continue. Until administrators publish their intentions, treating the game as already abandoned would go beyond the evidence.