BEING A CASUAL GAME DEVELOPER AT A VOODOO STUDIO
Your day-to-day in a studio
Working in a Voodoo gaming studio is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills with a small team of senior game developers and game artists among the crème de la crème worldwide. For example, within my current team, some of my colleagues previously spent years working at King, Playtika, and Supercell. Every studio is independent of Voodoo. A studio director creates them and recruits a small team of eight passionate people with solid expertise to work on casual or hybrid casual games. This way, studios combine all advantages of a startup and a big gaming company minus the constraints that can be seen in both. So Voodoo offers you everything you need to create awesome games.
With my team, we work hard to find the best way to entertain the world by taking our greatest hits to the next level. Working in a small team with the same objective every day makes us more like a group of friends or a family. We can feel this helpfulness daily between us, which is a real leitmotif in our daily work. Also, the pace of our work is animated by remote days (a necessary criterion for me), in general, twice a week, on Monday and Friday. Therefore, it is a perfect match to keep the Culture of your team studio and find the right work/life balance for you.
Last time I checked, many job opportunities were available in Voodoo studios based in the UK, France, Portugal, Romania, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Malta, Netherlands, and Spain… For some of them, you can also work remotely if you live in a country where Voodoo has a legal entity.
What’s remarkable is that anyone with a very sound understanding and knowledge of the casual mobile gaming market can help the team to deliver fun, innovative and entertaining games. In addition, because everyone on the team has a robust professional gaming background, we can take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas/features and give them their twist.
What I love most about my job here at Voodoo (thanks to the size of the team/studio) is that you actively participate in every aspect of development, from ideation to testing the casual games in the market. And Voodoo gives you all the freedom you need to succeed.
Feel the need for speed! Casual game developers at Voodoo means making a huge impact
Compared to big gaming companies, working at Voodoo as a casual game developer can provide a sense of real impact on the company; you’re constantly contributing to essential decisions within your team.
Our main goal is to create innovative hit games and avoid wasting time working on games that millions of users won’t play. So, instead of working on one specific game feature for several months or even years (with no guarantee regarding the game’s success), at Voodoo, we work on the gameplay of a single game for several weeks.
Testing prototypes as soon as possible gives us the metrics to know whether your work will impact the market or not. And that is the most exciting part of my job:
- Fleshing out the details of the game’s design
- Overseeing its testing
- Revising the game in response to player feedback
It encourages your creativity to think out of the box to ensure that your game will be the next hit in the store.
We write robust code with a senior and multidisciplinary team of talented people. We can all deconstruct, analyze and adapt mobile game mechanics, supporting and contributing new ideas to game features to make our game more fun. We take ownership of key game features and organize units of work with team members. We are responsible for outlining, programming, and testing game features across multiple projects. As a game developer at Voodoo, we create game prototypes, work as a team on larger game projects, update and improve existing projects and help drive all projects to completion. So we play an active role in performance testing and optimization across target device platforms.
Working in a small team allows us to work faster by collaborating on improving code standards and best practices by sharing and reviewing work daily, debating our most recent ideas, and constantly challenging each other to reach our potential. We all manage ourselves independently, working effectively and efficiently, maintaining and striving for the highest production quality possible.
Joining Voodoo is an excellent opportunity to impact the business and our gaming portfolio. We face tech and product challenges all the time, all of which help you learn and grow regularly, and all in a positive atmosphere.
If you want to join the Voodoo team, you can apply directly here on our career site:https://www.voodoo.io/careers/jobs.
