Ontario Game Careers Round-Up!
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 includes 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?
Studio Manager – Dark Slope
Dark Slope is an entertainment company with a singular focus to make the impossible, possible. With advanced motion capture and virtual production technologies, Dark Slope develops genre defining television programs and unforgettable immersive games for our original IP, co-productions and clients including NBC Universal, Nickelodeon, MTV, Warner Media, NBC, and TVOntario amongst others.
We are looking for a highly skilled and versatile Studio Manager to lead operations at our dual-soundstage facility. This role encompasses managing both our Virtual Production LED volume and traditional soundstage, along with a variety of bookable support rooms.
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2D/3D Artist – Snowed In Studios
As Ottawa’s largest game development studio, Snowed In Studios has been working with indies and AAA titles since 2009 on titles that include Starfield, Forza Motorsport, Madden, Forza Horizon 5, Dead by Daylight, Deus Ex, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout Franchises to name a few.
Snowed In Studios is seeking a skilled 2D/3D Artist to create or adapt high-level assets that meet their high visual, creative, and technical standards.
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Senior VFX Artist (Gaming) – Sinn Studio
Sinn Studio Inc. is leading the charge in VR combat games! Debut game, Swordsman, is a physics-based combat game where you can slash your way through medieval earth to become the ultimate Swordsman. Having won multiple awards like Game of the Year in 2022, Best Swordfighting Game in 2020 and more. Swordsman also boasts top best seller in Quest and PSVR/2 platforms.
Sinn Studio is looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join our team to build striking effects for our worlds to come alive! We are looking for someone with expertise in Unreal Engine (ie. and Niagara, shaders) to create realtime VFX content systems, and more seamless gameplay experiences.
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Technical Artist (UI) – Electronic Arts
EA is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with nearly 30 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite video games IP. We are assembling a team with the purpose of constructing a novel and immersive experience. This is your opportunity to join this new team to shape the future of interactive entertainment. Frostbite is EA’s proprietary game engine that comes equipped with tons of tools and technologies designed to build incredible games. Our in-house engine offers the unique ability to adapt to each game while working hand-in-hand to prioritize what to build.
As a Technical Artist, you will report to Frostbite’s Technical Art Manager as a part of the Frostbite content example team. As a member of this team, you’ll help make our development process more creator-centric by serving as a link between engineers and game creators.
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