Hey everyone™:
Very excited to talk about my next chapter in games today. Stoked to be on an epic adventure
@theorycraftgames
with
@tipul
,
@micevans
,
@TheBuboBubo
, Moby Francke and
@JoshwaMorrison
. Starting a new game game company from scratch is equal parts exhilarating...
What a massive weekend for Riot, and for League of Legends fans all over the world. Absolute masterclass in giving players what they want. Congrats to the old squad, especially
@schutzandleaves
- so happy for you!
So excited to be joined by
@safelocked
at Theorycraft! The squad is insane. Read about this and more on our first year as an indie. Thanks for chatting with us
@deantak
!
My daughter just discovered Pokemon and all I can think of is the poor soul that had to dig so deep to find a new way to say "pikapi" for the 10,000th time
Thank you to all of the Loki playtesters who came out for our final playtest of the year! We are so, so appreciate of all of your support and time. Can't wait to play with you all again soon!
Hi everyone! In about a week we're going to run our first ever pre-pre-PRE-(did I mention PRE)-Alpha playtest of our game prototype, Loki, with ~100 playtesters. The signup form is here:
Super excited to announce
@theorycraft_inc
's Series B, share a little more about our first game, and be joined by one of the best in the biz,
@jbelliss
!
Today and tomorrow we're running our last big playtest of 2021. Super proud of what our team has built in less than a year. Equally proud of how we're building it - moving fast, staying scrappy and with our community from day one. Come check it out!
Last day of our very first EU playtest! First time testing in EU, first time testing for 7 days! Huge thank you to everyone who came out to help us improve the game. Insanely grateful for our community.
Yesterday's showmatch was a banger - hoping today's can top it!
🇪🇺PROJECT LOKI PLAYTEST IS KICKING OFF IN 14 HOURS 🇪🇺
6PM TO 10PM CEST EVERY DAY UNTIL OCTOBER 5
STILL TIME TO SIGN UP @
YOU CAN EVEN BRING YOUR FRIENDS IN WITH OUR REFER-A-FRIEND PROGRAM
why am i yelling
LET'S GOOOOOOOO
it'd be a shame not to share these early models with you, so i made a video about them (with looks at the shiny new models too).
tap the video to lock in
Somewhat organically, we're ended up as a fully remote studio with people all over NA and a few international! Although of course there are tradeoffs, overall this has been great for us. I think it has been key in letting people live their best lives AND do their best work.
Return to office has been a 🌶️ topic for big companies with even bigger offices. As a fully remote studio, folks
#AskTheorycraft
:
"What's TC's long-term remote/office work policy? And beyond that - how's it been? What's working? What's not?"
Check the quote RTs for answers!
LET IT ROLL!!!!
The first Loki playtest of 2023 is happening in 2 days - THU/FRI (FEB 2/3), 6pm to 10pm PT.
There's still time to sign up @ - come see what we've been cooking🧑🍳
Working on large teams for so long I don't think I fully appreciated how powerful talent density is. It isn’t just about having insane talent, it’s about keeping the level of talent hyper concentrated. On that note we are so excited to be joined by
@Wrekz_
. Welcome, Jordan!
Boom! Team gets more strong every day. We are thrilled to welcome
@Wrekz_
to the Theorycraft team as a Sr. Designer! Jordan is already putting amazing stuff into the game.
🚨Loki pre-Alpha playtest news!🚨
Starting THIS Thursday, we’re playtesting EARLIER and REGULARLY — every second Thursday from 6pm - 9pm PT.
We’ve also sent out a big wave of playtest invites.📨 Check your promotions and spam folders for emails from Theorycraft!
At the end of the day companies really are just the people who work there. I am so unbelievably psyched about the people who are choosing to come work with us. Not only best in class at their crafts, but game developers at the core, and wonderful humans to boot. Case in point:
In our latest blog post, meet Dylan Jones - aka
@Posthaste_
- the former Lead Character Technical Artist on Overwatch, our amazing new Technical Art Director, and the only person on the team who’s won a car on the Price is Right:
(~ ̄▽ ̄)~ have an ALPHA FIRESIDE CHAT with
@safelocked
come see the new HUNTER UPDATES, map embiggening efforts, and huge UI/QoL polish!
a reminder that playtest starts tomorrow (apr 25) for NA/EU @ 5 - 10pm GMT/PT!!!
[also join us on discord: ]
Holy smokes our team comp just got such a crazy boost. It's such a pleasure to welcome
@Penrif_
to the team!
If you'd like to work with amazingly talented people like Brian, please have a look at our careers page.
In our first ever blog post, we are beyond excited to welcome
@Penrif_
(aka Brian Bossé) to the team! Brian most recently led technology for League of Legends and joins Theorycraft as Software Architect for all things gameplay. Read more below! 👇
We talked to former LoL developer and
@theorycraft_inc
co-founder
@newzerozeroone
to discuss the studio's first project, an innovative PvP shooter called Project Loki.
...terrifying and fun, but with this crew - pretty sure fun will always prevail. We are looking forward to developing games you can play for thousands of hours - games that reward deep mastery but also know that sometimes you just want to blow stuff up with your friends.
Meet Theorycraft's founding Art Director: Moby Francke. He's led or contributed to the art direction of games like Team Fortress 2, L4D 1 & 2, Portal, CSGO, DotA 2, League, and VALORANT.
Now he's assembling a team here to imagine new worlds.
➡️
Riot Games and Tencent have launched 'The Battle of Golden Spatula' for mobile in China today, which is essentially a spin off version of Teamfight Tactics for the China market.
It debuted at
#1
on the iOS game download chart and
#3
on the revenue chart.
We're looking for a hyper-talented, driven, humble, low ego, high integrity Environment Artist to join us on our crazy adventure and help us build our world. If that's you or someone you know, please share/get in touch!
1.) Happy new years in case you needed to hear it from a corporate account on twitter
2.) We're hiring an🌳Environment Artist! 🪨 If you thrive with a lot of freedom and responsibility and want to do high-impact work with an ambitious team... 👉
٩(˘◡˘)۶ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐢 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 ٩(˘◡˘)۶
8 DAYS // NA SERVERS (Ohio)
NOV 30 to DEC 7 // 6pm to 9pm PT, every day
CHECK THAT PROGRESS! Let's slam a week of playtests on our best build yet :)
Keys going out soon, so GET IN HERE!
TOMORROW WE HAVE A:
๑۞๑,¸¸,ø¤º°`°๑۩ SURPRISE ๑۩ ,¸¸,ø¤º°`°๑۞๑
NORTH AMERICA DUO+SQUADS PLAYTEST HAPPENING...
• THURSDAY + FRIDAY (11/16 + 11/17)
• 6PM to 9PM PT
DISCORD FOR DETAILS, SENDING A FEW HUNDRED EXTRA INVITES AND REFERRALS SEE YOU THERE
٩(˘◡˘)۶ 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰/𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐤𝐢 𝐄𝐏 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚
@safelocked
𝐍𝐚𝐦 ٩(˘◡˘)۶
BREAK OUT THE WARM AND FUZZIES, WE GOT FEELINGS. 2023 was BIG, and we’re thankful for all yous. Come be appreciated in our last chat of '23.
This is the first year in a long time where I don't know what the storylines for Worlds are! Who should I root for? Who are the dark horses? Who's expected to crush?
Oh yeah! We’re building a high performance, talent dense team of the world’s best game developers, who put players at the center of everything they do. If that sounds like you, please consider joining us :)
🌍We are building our IP foundations!🌏
If you're interested in hearing about our process of building a game IP from scratch, check out our latest post as we talk to
@LokkenArt
. Some highlights in the🧵
It's kinda shocking how little actual screentime Totoro gets, and yet somehow even on our 100th viewing every time he shows up my kids have to scream TOTORO!!!! as loud as they possibly can
🚨LOKI PLAYTEST HEADS UP: we're targeting JUNE 10 for our next big North American playtest, and are investigating... an EU playtest!🇪🇺
Check your emails (promotions tab!) and the official Discord for more information.
🗣️This week we're doing our
#AskTheorycraft
on Twitter - a question we often get from students and AAA studio friends alike:
"What's been a noticeable difference coming from a big studio to a startup like Theorycraft?"
Answer in the 🧵!
Rory's been absolutely crushing since he joined. I'm looking forward to the day where we can share some of the insane stuff Rory's been working on with you all!
Meet
@RoryAlderton
, former Animation Director on Wild Rift, now Animation Director at Theorycraft! Rory’s a madman when it comes to creating animation that makes gameplay shine. He’s already brought a crazy amount of life to the game (and standup)!🚀
Welcome Felipe Romero Adames as our newest hire and software architect! Felipe grew up in Bogotá, Colombia in the 90s (he was stabbed once, but still loves his hometown), where he found his love in gaming.
Felipe has worked across a few studios, including...
Super excited to welcome
@Koalifier
to the team
@theorycraft_inc
! Our days of janky morning playtests are over :)
We've recently opened a bunch of new roles on our website - come join us!
WELCOME Kevin '
@Koalifier
' O'Brien as our QA Manager. 7 years ago, Kevin was a LAWYER when he decided he wanted to be in games. Starting as a playtester on League, Kevin's gone on to be a QA Manager on both
@LeagueOfLegends
and the launch/beyond of
@PlayVALORANT
. And now... here!
The game has grown and evolved so much over the last year. Thank you to all of the community OGs who have helped us make it as good as it can be🙏. We have a long way to go but there's a pretty special core there. Please join us for the last playtest of the year!
We think there’s a serious drought of /fresh/, competitive, team-based games.
In an endless sea of sequels and seasonal updates, it’s rare to play something new and unique that wrinkles your brain and gets your squad hyped to run it back.
That’s our vision for Loki.
ONE WEEK 📣! Until our 2-day, end of year Loki playtest (Nov18+19). Check out our new hero concepts, play in our day 2 competition to get your name IN the game, and see how far Loki has evolved.
We still welcome new signups and referrals. See you there!
👾 Playtest week! 👾 We're hosting our first large 2022 playtest THIS FRIDAY, February 25th, from 6pm to 8pm PT. Our biggest hero changelist... ever!
Sign up @
There will also be a special showmatch happening just before - check Discord for signups.
👁️🫦👁️Yahüü it’s time for another 2 DAY. LOKI. PLAYTEST!
📅 THIS THURS & FRI [Oct 13/14]: practice mode @ 5pm PT, games open @ 6pm PT 🕔
All previous playtesters are welcome back. We'll also be randomly sending new invites today. We've got new heroes, HUGE changes, and more!
We're hiring a COMBAT DESIGNER! 🤺 (and some Loki hints in here 👀)
Here's a pitch: our first game, "Loki," is a genre-mashup unlike any other with deep, strategic action combat — in 1v1s up to XvX fights.
Being in new territory means we make the rules. Your voice matters.
💥 It's time for a 2-day RANKED Loki playtest!💥
This THU + FRI / NOV 17 + 18 @ 5PM PT (both days), we're testing ranked mode, along with a bevy of new systems changes. See Discord for more info!
We're also still accepting playtesters; come sign up @
Meet the Team! This is Jungah Lee, Theorycraft's Senior Concept Artist. We talk with
@jungahl33
about her journey and experience coming from a large, established team like Blizzard's Cinematics Team to a small indie startup like us.
Read @
TL;DR in 🧵!
Our friends at
@theorycraft_inc
are hosting a playtest for their upcoming game -- codenamed 'Loki' -- this coming Friday, April 1.
All the details here:
Excited to finally announce that I've joined
@theorycraft_inc
as a Principal Game Designer!
I suspect many of you that I've talked with will really enjoy our game, and since my favorite part of dev is releasing things and getting feedback, I can't wait to talk to you about it