Culture

There are thousands of game developers out there, many of them piling into the same genres, game mechanics, and themes.  We believe our best chance of making an impact is to not be opportunistic in chasing quick profits but rather making sure our company is behind the same vision and culture.  Below is a list of values we live by:

Respect:

We believe that making high-quality games is equal parts engineering, game design, and content. It's this reliance on and mutual respect for each other that creates meaningful collaboration and ultimately quality games.  Everyone's time is treated as equally important and each team member strives to unblock others as their highest priority.

Challenge Everything:

Everything we build is vetted by another member of the team to ensure we are building things that are absolutely necessary. While iteration is absolutely necessary, we prefer to focus the number of experiments on things that truly matter. Ideas are not sacred and we seek conflict to come to better solutions. While this slightly reduces our utilization rate, we believe rowing our boat towards the finish line is better than going full paddle in the wrong direction.

Pragmatic and Innovative:

We know when to borrow ideas / hack a solution together to get to market faster and when to spend the extra time to build something more robust or innovative. By doing the 80/20 whenever possible (80% of the value delivered from 20% of the work), we have created a highly efficient game production process while still maintaining the pride in adding something new to the game landscape.

Abstraction and Simplification:

We like being able to abstract an idea to the simplest version of the idea. By minimizing complexity, we're able to find better approaches to address root causes instead of merely treating symptoms.

Sustainable Passion:

We want to win and are tenacious towards that goal. However, we also recognize no one project will make or break our company. The players that are big in our industry today were not the same players that were big 2 years ago, as many of the early players did not build their success on a sustainable formula. We emphasize continuous learning rather than continuous sprints.