Studio Spotlight 2019-20: nDreams
Today we’re looking at another amazing studio partner for our Search for a Star game-dev challenges. nDreams is an employer committed to growth and development of talented game makers, from grass-roots through to senior staff.
nDreams are an award-winning virtual reality developer and publisher. As one of the biggest and most experienced VR studios in the world, their rich heritage in games development leads the way in building interactive and immersive content for consumer headsets and location-based entertainment. Their latest title in development, Phantom: Covert Ops, redefines stealth action games for virtual reality and won a number of awards, including the prestigious “Best of E3 Award” within the VR/AR category.
nDreams are in their 4th year of supporting the Grads in Games scheme and have welcomed ten graduates to the team since 2017. Two of their graduates were spotted due to their Search for a Star entry and one has gone on to be promoted to Environment Artist since joining! They’ve doubled their headcount over the past year to nearly 100 people and, with growth continuing at a pace, are recruiting an average of five new staff a month with graduates a key part of this hiring strategy.
They recruit permanent, fixed-term contract and freelance resources at all levels across all skills sets depending on their development needs and the company is incredibly proud of its culture of empowering staff at all levels to reach their full potential.
Tamsin O’Luanaigh, Talent Director at nDreams, commented “Search for Star is a great initiative and one that fits in firmly with nDreams vision of recruiting, training and retaining graduate talent to our studio. It is incredibly rewarding seeing our graduate employees grow in skills and confidence and the studio benefits from the positive impact that entry-level recruits bring with them.”
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