1. We work intensely, with a sense of urgency, and under ambitious deadlines. We believe that the quicker we iterate, the more promising ideas we can try, the more feedback we can gather from our players, the more compelling the player experience. Capturing lightning in a bottle is a miraculous feat, and we want to maximize our chances at it.
2. We deeply care about the craft of engineering and game making. We take pride in the quality of our work, how that work enables stellar player experiences. We’re constantly and collaboratively improving our skills, our methods, our processes, and our deliverables. We share our learnings and help each other level up. We constantly seek coaching and feedback to improve our work.
3. We believe that the best teams are small, focused, comprised of world-class contributors ready to wear many hats. We minimize communication overhead and maximize time on the work. Minimal meetings, status reports, and excess process that breaks the flow. Maximum getting real work done.
4. The team comes first. We work collaboratively, as a unit, elegantly coordinating our work and supporting each other’s deliverables. We have no room for lone wolves, brilliant jerks and egotists.
5. We’re product-driven engineers with valuable insights and a seat at the table of shaping the player experience. We are not order-takers executing instructions from above. Our deep understanding of players allows us to collaborate closely with other disciplines from the start. We focus on delivering outcomes, not outputs, and advocate for the player at every step.
6. We work on hard problems and solve them elegantly. Highly responsive multiplayer interactions, complex ability systems, mind-bending network-predicted physics, bleeding-edge post processing. We roll up our sleeves and get it done.
7. We build for the long term, while ensuring the product remains playable at every stage. We make sure the team is always unblocked, the game always ready for a playtest. We take calculated bets with our technical debt. We make the right compromises as a team, always focusing on player delight and the team’s ability to make rapid progress.