Playground Hiring Spree

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https://www.thenerdmag.com/forza-ho...developers-designers-engineers-directors-etc/


The development team behind the hit Xbox racing game series Forza Horizon has opened up vacancies for jobs looking up for engineers, directors, developers, designers etcetera.


There is a total of 150 or more job vacancies from which 50 of them are posted on the official website of Playground games.


You can read their website for detailed information on the post you are most interested in here. You must be wondering that these are not 150 jobs well they are not the rest of the jobs you can find on their LinkedIn profile. Playground Games plans to grow to 400 employees.
 
Ramping up in their Fable development, I assume. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they can do with that franchise. It deserves a good reboot. Playground is probably MS's best developer, so I'm hopeful.
 
What's Berserk? I never heard of it. I googled it, and all I got was a Japanese manga series.

Yah, that's it, it's kinda awesome. The Souls series is inspired by it, yet somehow comes off way less violent.

There is also an older animated series based off it as well as three really f***ing awesome movies which is basically a retelling of the original series (IMO) and then a more recent anime series as well.
 
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Yah, that's it, it's kinda awesome. The Souls series is inspired by it, yet somehow comes off way less violent.

There is also an older animated series based off it as well as three really f***ing awesome movies which is basically a retelling of the original series (IMO) and then a more recent anime series as well.

Is there some reason to believe that this is what Playground is working on?
 
Is there some reason to believe that this is what Playground is working on?

Nah.

An artist working at Playground recently posted some amazing looking Berserk art, but it was clarified on another one of their sites that it was created for a collab art workshop as opposed to a title they were working on. IIRC the concept was "what would Berserk look like as a TV show" or somethign like that.

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Is there some reason to believe that this is what Playground is working on?
There really is not. It is a rumor. "Conar Cross, a concept artist at Playground Games, recently uploaded artwork from “The Berserk Project”, which is something the studio could be working on." The artwork is concept of scenes and areas from Berserk: The Golden Age Arc.
 
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Nah.

An artist working at Playground recently posted some amazing looking Berserk art, but it was clarified on another one of their sites that it was created for a collab art workshop as opposed to a title they were working on. IIRC the concept was "what would Berserk look like as a TV show" or somethign like that.
A new show? A remake of the Anime? I did not know that, interesting.DVD mobie 3.jpg
 
Well, it looks purdy, anyhow.

It would be cool if the new Fable looked anything like this (although I know this is just concept art):

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Nice to see that kind of talent at playground. Unsurprising.
 
I'd s*** bricks if Playground Studios was working on an RPG in the Berserk universe. More than likely it Fable 4/Reboot.
 
Fable is a given but I do recall either Spencer or Booty stating all their studios would have at least one smaller team that would work on experimental incubation projects. I think that’s how Gears Tactics came about. Probably where the rumor of a 3rd team comes from. I don’t believe it’ll be 3 evenly distributed teams trying to make AAA games.
 
Interesting. That's the first I've heard of a 3rd team. Even if it's smaller, experimental projects, that's fine. Not everything needs to be AAA, and you can take more risks if you're smaller.
 
It won't be Fable. People thought FH4 would take place in Japan. PGG just let them think it, too. That s*** was funny...But yeah, no. I'm betting it'll be another open world RPG. A brand new Ip.
 
Recruiting so hard they have to recruit more recruiters? I hope they aren't biting off more than they can chew. I'm not a racing guy, so I've never played the Forza horizon games, but I understand they're quality games, so I'm hopeful that quality translates to a non-racing game as well, but some developers have floundered when they make rapid expansion like this and I hope that won't be the case here. I'd really love an awesome fable successor or new IP, so fingers crossed.
 
Recruiting so hard they have to recruit more recruiters? I hope they aren't biting off more than they can chew. I'm not a racing guy, so I've never played the Forza horizon games, but I understand they're quality games, so I'm hopeful that quality translates to a non-racing game as well, but some developers have floundered when they make rapid expansion like this and I hope that won't be the case here. I'd really love an awesome fable successor or new IP, so fingers crossed.


Maybe they’re filling in the spots of current devs transferring over to the new team!