Payload Studios

We’re sad to have to share this post from Russ Clarke, Payload’s CEO. Unfortunately we will be parting ways with some of our incredible team. We will be doing everything we can to support them to find new opportunities in the games industry. Everyone facing redundancy is a fantastic colleague and some of those impacted are listed below. If you have any suitable opportunities please reach out to them, or contact Khally (Payload’s Director of People and Culture) who can pass on any interesting opportunities. Alana Ah Tani - Studio Administrator David Wilson - Artist Lewis Kielthy - Junior Designer Matthew Guest - Community Manager Matthew M. - Sound Designer

Our CEO, Russ Clarke, will be speaking at Develop:Brighton next Wednesday sharing lessons from the launch of TerraTech Worlds on the 'Discoverability' track. Topic: Cracking Early Access - From Design to Development - Lessons From the Front Line. When? Weds, 10 July at 3.00pm - 3.45pm Where? Room 4 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eNWJjbQx  & please come along if you are attending the conference!

To round up our Pride activities we’ve put together a blog post where we spoke to some of our Payloaders about: 🌈What Pride means to them 🎉How they celebrate 📖Pride themed recommendations for book/tv/film/music A big thanks to Alana, Cassie, Piers, and Pippa for contributing! Check out the blog post➡ https://lnkd.in/eaYUEQdu #Pride2024 #PrideMonth #TeamPayload

It’s Pride Month and we’ve been celebrating at Payload Studios! Last week we kicked off our Pride activities with some themed cupcake decorating. We were super impressed by the decorating skills on show! Pride offers the chance to celebrate the LGBQT+ community but also to reflect on what still needs to be done, and learn about LGBQT+ experiences and history. We’re planning a variety of activities throughout the month including: 🍰 Hosting a charity bake sale for an LGBTQ+ charity chosen by our team. ✏Posting a Pride blogpost where some of our Payloaders will share what pride means to them, how they celebrate, and even provide some suggested reading! 🌈Arranging a visit to Queer Britain, the UK’s first and only LGBQT+ museum. We'll be sharing more updates later in the month so watch this space! #Pride2024 #PrideMonth #TeamPayload

🧠 Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual campaign to promote good mental health.🧠 Here at Payload we’ve made a bit of a tradition of taking part in the campaign to promote the importance of good mental health and wellbeing, improve mental health awareness and to look at ways in which we can ensure we are providing a supportive workplace for our team. This year’s theme was Movement: Moving for Our Mental Health and focused on the benefits of moving more. We took inspiration from the theme to arrange several events including: 🧘🏽Hosting a desk/chair yoga session 🌳Arranging a lunchtime walk and picnic in the park 🏃🏻♀️Organising a step challenge which will be running for 4 weeks to help motivate those taking part to be more active! We also took the opportunity to share wellbeing resources, highlight some upcoming mental health events from Safe In Our World (available to Level Up partners) and remind our Payloaders of the wellbeing support available at the studio. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #TeamPayload #GamesIndustry

The Tentacle Zone and Payload Studios were thrilled to host our Careers Workshop last Tuesday as part of the London Games Festival side event. A huge thank you to Khally Saarman-Jones and Kyra Chan for leading our CVs and cover letter workshop, and to Michaela Thompson and Gary Martin from Jagex for hosting the interview workshop. The event finished with a panel on "Careers advice, Imposter syndrome, and wellbeing," in which Seyed Nasrollahi and Charley Grafton-Callaghan also joined us and shared their experiences with our attendees. We hope it provided valuable insights and support to everyone who came along! #LGF2024 #Tentaclezone #gamesindustry #gamescareers

📣 We have a few spots left for our event next Tuesday! If you are an experienced game professional seeking to refresh your CV and improve your interview skills, you can sign up for our workshop afternoon here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/egJCSrhZ

🚀 Friday was a BIG DAY for Payload Studios as we celebrated the Steam Early Access release of TerraTech Worlds! 🎉 We took a moment to celebrate this important milestone with our incredible team. We’re so proud of the hard work and passion they have poured into the project. We also wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without the help and support of the wonderful TerraTech community, as well as all our amazing industry friends and backers. ➡ Check out the Steam page for TerraTech Worlds here: https://lnkd.in/ez8UgCgx #TeamPayload #TerraTechWorlds #NewGame

...aaaaaaaaand it's launch day! TerraTech Worlds launches in Steam Early Access at 6pm GMT today, after a frenetic build up over the last several months, with invaluable support from the amazing TerraTech community, capped off by a tremendous, top-10 showing in last month's Next Fest. I'm incredibly proud of the passion, creativity and sheer grit the Payload Studios team has shown in getting to this point. TerraTech and TerraTech Worlds have been a labour of love, over more than a decade - the last year of which was especially tough, as we've all felt. Against a backdrop of layoffs across the industry, Payload has maintained our full team and kept our eyes on the prize, thanks to the support of our backers and the firm belief that we are making something great. Come and join us on the journey! Trailer 📽 https://lnkd.in/etp9q8iN RPS 🚀 https://lnkd.in/e6BrNcmq Shacknews 🏠 https://lnkd.in/e9r64Hrt Future Games Showcase 🔻 https://lnkd.in/eYqj7A87 Steam 🛒 https://lnkd.in/e8x6a6N9 Huge thanks to our friends at Tencent, 4Divinity and Epic Games, as well as all of our other friends and backers, too numerous to name, for helping us to make this happen! ❤️

🚀🌟There's only a few days to go until the Early Access release for TerraTech Worlds (coming this Friday, March 22nd) and we're very very excited to share the game's intro sequence with everyone! 👀Check it out over on YouTube. #PayloadStudios #TerraTechWorlds #NewGame https://lnkd.in/eY2dTDz2