PlaySide is a AAA Mobile studio that was formed in 2012 by ex EA Visceral games staff, our latest title is ‘Catch The Ark’ and it can be found on the Apple App Store.

We are looking for a 2D and a 3D uni grad or current uni student. One of the biggest challenges when finding a job after finishing a games or arts course is not having any credits or experience in the given field. With this internship position, we aim to guide students towards a quality of work that is expected from the larger games studios. Also (and most importantly) we will give art credits on the current title we are working on to the intern.

Although this is an unpaid position,the expertise that is gained working alongside a AAA team, along with the artist credits given will lead to the student having a much easier time finding a job in the industry or remaining at PlaySide.

APPLY AT JOBS@PLAYSIDESTUDIOS.COM 

Software Engineer

We are looking for multi-talented engineers who are passionate about making great mobile games to help us create our newest and coolest IP yet! We are on the lookout for someone who has experienced working on iOS and has credits for games on either platform.

Come and join our motivated and refreshingly creative AAA team!

Key responsibilities

1. 2 years+ industry experience.
2. Programming applications for the mobile devices using Objective C and C++
3. Writing and implementing tools for the creation of such applications
4. Reporting the status of the project to the Producer
5. Maintaining and enforcing schedules in collaboration with the Producer
6. Working within a small, motivated, talented team and communicate effectively
7. Special effects programming
8. User interface programming
9. Game system programming
10. 2D/3D graphics programming

APPLY HERE – jobs@playsidestudios.com

We have been in awe (and are quite humbled) at the reception we have received from major gaming and news outlets for our new game Catch The Ark! We never expected so much press but we are so happy. One of the things we are so proud of, is that everyone really understands what we are trying to do. The fact we are putting so much effort into story and character building was widely understood and it helps to show that all that effort hasn’t been for nothing! We are looking forward to our launch more than ever now. If you missed any articles, the main ones are linked below! Also check out www.catchtheark.com for more info!

Many of you have been asking to see some pictures of the studio!We have been so busy that we havent had time to have many visitors, so hopefully this will do for the time being until the game is released.

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THIS JOB IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

We are looking for a Melbourne based Professional Sound Designer who is easy to work with and specialises in designing and creating both SFX and Music. If you only specialise in one or the other, please still send through an email as we may find two separate people more suitable!

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We are very privledged to be working with the team at Surprise Attack. We take marketing very seriously at PlaySide so we wanted someone who would share our passion for our studio and game! We believe Chris Wright is the perfect guy for the job!

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At launch we were not prepared for the kind of hype we received, there was no possible way we could have expected that! We didn’t have a twitter ready for launch week, but we do now!!! So be sure to join us!

http://www.twitter.com/playsidestudios

We are truly blessed by the amount of support we received world wide on our Launch Week. Our PR Team were working overtime and it paid off. We can’t wait to release some truly awesome games and we will keep our Facebook page updated the whole way!

http://www.facebook.com/playsidestudios

Several ex-developers of the recently shuttered Visceral Games Melbourne have banded together to form mobile games studio PlaySide. Headed by Gerry Sakkas as CEO, PlaySide will begin production on games from January 16 next year. Read the rest of this entry »

Former Visceral Games Developer Opens New Studio

It’s becoming quite a common occurrence these days to hear of AAA studios closing, and smaller indie developers popping up from the remnants.

The latest is mobile game studio PlaySide, revealed this week and made up of six former staffers from Visceral Melbourne, which EA closed down back in September.

This new studio is being led by Gerry Sakkas, a game designer who had worked at Electronic Arts for over three years. Sakkas told Gamasutra that he was offered a position at one of EA’s U.S. studios, but declined.

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