Ludomade Reviews

Pros

Management treated as very good

Cons

Had to leave to have a baby

Pros

Met a bunch of amazing people.

Cons

- Steady decline in work quality and profits -Run by ego driven leaders - All employees let go

Pros

Great projects to work on, a very happening culture, an excellent environment, and an amazing group of people to be surrounded by.

Cons

I don't have anything negative to say in regards to this company. I enjoyed my experience with them. I'm glad I was offered the opportunity to be apart of their family even though I was with them (as a contract artist) for only a couple of short months.

Pros

There are plenty of great people to work with, talented artists and developers fill the roster. Lots of things to do, if you have time, Friday BBQs, VR machines, and lots of connected toys.

Cons

The company chases tons of little projects, then tries to make amazing things on no budget. This forces teams to become overworked and have to build a two month project in 1 and a half (or a 6 month project in 4 months). Every team has faults: The art/design teams dream up too much for the developers (generally bloating the scope). The Dev teams hardly work together, so development practices are terrible and make it hard to pair up devs. Producers and other staff constantly change everyone's schedules and pull people into meetings without a moments notice. Overall, there is little communication and lots of disorganization. Since everything done here is full of short, heavy work projects, burnout and whiplash plague the morale of the entire company. Innovation on new game technology isn't possible (one of the things management wants to do).

Pros

I've been at Ludomade for over a year and totally love it. Since separating from Soap Creative, management has refocused mainly on entertainment, toys and games. We pitch a lot of fun concepts, and get to work on a pretty broad variety of stuff like web projects, games, fun social activations, experiential. It's a mellow place; but we do really high quality work, which I'm pretty proud of. Benefits and salary are competitive with other places I know.

Cons

I've looked at some of the other reviews here and they feel like spiteful and disgruntled 'outliers' to me. My friends at work are generally happy; if you've ever worked at any other agencies, they tend to work way longer hours and do tonnes of banner campaigns, which we don't do any of. My main con is I wish we made more headway releasing our own products, but I understand it's an agency, and that pays the bills.

Pros

Nice and helpful people to work with. Amazing artists.

Cons

Company seems to be lost, incapable of producing long-term work or implementing a solid process. (what are the producers doing?) It keeps on delivering only the trivial shallow work of 10 years ago, and struggles to innovate in the age of digital product design, user experience, and agile methodologies.