Ontario Game Careers Round-Up!

Published On: 5 September 2023Categories: Today's TalesTags: , , ,

Here at The Lodgge, we want to ensure visibility for all newcomers to the industry and make transitioning positions at any level as seamless as possible. Here is another round of our Bi-Weekly Career Post Round-Up that will include a collection of job openings and game industry careers across our many fantastic Ontario studios that stood out to us this week! Let’s have a look shall we?

Digital Extremes – UI Artist

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games’ multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of 50 million registered players on PC, PS4™, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch™.

Digital Extremes is looking for a Level Artist to join our team! The Level Artist will be following, and on occasion helping to define art direction through collaboration with the entire creative team including but not limited to the Creative Director and Art Director. The incumbent will also be collaborating with the Level Design team and the Environment Art team to understand and balance the artistic and gameplay direction of the project, and to ensure the successful execution of the game’s visual and technical design on a level by level basis.

EA Sports – Graphics Software Engineer (Rendering)

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC.

As a Rendering Software Engineer, your implementations will change how Sports creates games. You will be reporting to the team’s Development or Technical Director, you will be a part of ensuring the studio and adopt new technology and always improve the way we work. Within Sports and EA, you will have a driving partnership with the Frostbite development team, you will work with leading industry talent in one of the world’s largest and leading game development communities.

Jam City – Senior Producer

As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent for our talent team in Toronto. We’re on the hunt for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Senior Producer at Jam City will work with team leadership to establish a high functioning live operations framework including platform updates and hotfixes, partner with development and shared services groups to establish a roadmap for live content delivery, and also help QA to define and refine best in class testing protocols for the feature and build release schedule and bug triage process.

Torn Banner Studios  – Producer

Torn Banner Studios is an exciting independent video game company located in Toronto, Canada. Best known for our multi-million-copy selling Chivalry franchise, passion and innovation are the core elements of everything we do. We are a team of 130 that truly love games and are lucky enough to be following our dreams, thanks to the incredible support from our communities of players. Join us as we continue to grow and help build our exciting new projects!

We are looking for a passionate Producer, Senior Producer or Technical Producer to join Torn Banner Studios to work on an exciting new game. Reporting directly to the Development Director, the successful candidate will be helping to lead and drive our technical teams.