Article provided by Alex Wright-Manning, Head of Talent at Playground Games.
Playground Games is one of the UK’s most recently established, yet already most successful independent studios. With two critically acclaimed Xbox exclusive titles in Forza Horizon and its sequel Forza Horizon 2, Playground have firmly established themselves as true players in the AAA console market.
Playground Games was established in 2009, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create big budget console titles for a global audience. From these relatively humble beginnings, we now occupy three floors in our state of the art studio in the centre of Leamington Spa, with more than 100 staff making up the Playground family.
We don’t intend to become the largest studio in the world, but we do intend to become the best. Our debut title, Forza Horizon, released in 2012, was met with critical acclaim and commercial success; winning 18 Driving Game of the Year awards. Our latest title, Forza Horizon 2, takes players onto the next generation of console hardware with stunning results, marrying incredible visuals with thrilling gameplay.
We’re now ready to embark on our next project, so we have opportunities for some exceptional people to bolster our world class team. Areas we’re looking to grow include environment, VFX and technical art, animation, rendering and tools engineering. We’re also looking for mobile specialists to help us branch out into new areas of development.
We want to work with games professionals with a passion verging on an obsession for their chosen field, the willingness to go the extra mile to create great games, and the drive to push themselves, their colleagues and our studio to new heights.
Team members are furnished with the latest tech and facilities to ensure that we’re at the cutting edge of development practice, and we also offer all of our staff training, mentoring and development opportunities to help them achieve their goals and fulfil their potential.
Downtime is important too, and PG staffers can unwind with a game on our pool and football tables, and relax in our fully stocked recreation area, crammed with breakfast cereals, fresh fruit, juices, smoothies, awesome fresh ground coffee and seasonal treats (not to mention our fridge of ‘adult beverages’!).
On joining Playground, you’ll find something a little different from the norm. Sure, we produce blockbuster AAA games for a global audience, but we’re still indies at heart. Everyone has a voice in the direction we take, and though we’re consummate professionals, we operate in a fun, non-corporate environment, and we always challenge the status quo in regards to our approach to games development.
What makes us a great studio isn’t the awesome office space, or the beautiful location, or even the amazing games we create. It’s our people. People we’re proud to call colleagues and friends. People that shape us, inspire us, and contribute to our goal of becoming the best video games studio in the world.
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