EA’s Offices in Guildford, UK
Exciting news all. Bright Light, based in the Guildford Studios, is recruiting for contractors, so I thought I would throw the spotlight on this great studio, home to Harry Potter and Hasbro Games including Family Games Night, so you can get a flavour of studio life and hopefully see a contract role that tempts you to apply to join the team.
Let’s start by getting a feel for Bright Light. Over to Vice President and General Manager, Harvey Elliott to give us an insight…..
‘EA Bright Light began life as the EA UK studio back in 1995 – the studio synonymous with most successful movie-game series of all time, Harry Potter. It also has a deep and rich gaming heritage through the acquisition of Bullfrog Productions, with games such as Theme Park, Syndicate, Populous and Dungeon Keeper as names that are familiar to many of us in the industry today.
We set up a new identity as EA Bright Light in 2007, with a focus on young audiences and family oriented entertainment and now predominantly build games for the EA Play label, whether it’s continuing our work with the Harry Potter series or developing original properties, alongside numerous projects under a long term Hasbro relationship. But it doesn’t stop there, because of our expertise in creating games for Nintendo and handheld platforms, we are also working with other divisions within EA to consult and produce specific skus. For instance, our handheld team have developed Need For Speed Shift for the PSP.
Our goal is to become the world’s leading character action studio, making games that all the family can enjoy. We have a number of new IPs in development that, alongside Harry Potter, will take us there. We have a great team of full-time employees, but constantly need to boost our skills with the very best in contracted and outsourced staff – giving us flexibility to quickly ramp projects up when we move from pre-production into production and to seek out the very best skills for the games that we build. And in the process we work hard to manage the work/life balance that is often under scrutiny in the industry – it is possible to make great games and still have fun as well as a social or family life.
Maybe it’s time for you to join EA Bright Light at one of the best places to work within the games industry’.
Thanks Harvey.
The reception area of EA’s Offices in Guildford.
So, after Harvey’s insight, what jobs is the team looking to recruit asap? These are all contract roles. We have attached 2 links. The first link is to apply for the contract role. The second is a link to see a full job description.
| Business Title | Apply-To-Job URL | View Job URL |
| Contract Software Engineer | apply_contract_software_engineer | view_contract_software_engineer |
| Contract Integrator | apply_contract_integrator | view_contract_integrator |
| Contract Character Concept Artist | apply_contract_character_concept_artist | view_contract_character_concept_artist |
| Contract Environment Concept Artist | apply_contract_environment_concept_artist | view_contract_enviromnment_concept_artist |
| Contract World Concept Artist | apply_contract_world_concept_artist | view_contract_world_concept_artist |
| Contract Level Designer | apply_contract_level_designer | View_contract_level_designer |
| Contract Graphics/Systems Engineer | apply_contract_graphics/systems_engineer | view_contract_graphics/systems_engineer |
| Contract Gameplay Engineer | apply_contract_gameplay_engineer | view_contract_gameplay_engineer |
| Contract World Artist | apply_contract_world_artist | view_contract_world_artist |
To help give one further flavour of life at Bright Light, we have taken some photos to help.
EArl
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