Hej Resolution

At Resolution Games, we truly enjoy the communities we have built around our games and believe that listening to player feedback is extremely important.

Our Life at Resolution series continues with a deep dive into our Games Producer & Line Manager Ting’s role at our studio.

Hello, I am Ahmed, a Game Programmer who has recently taken a leap of faith and traveled a long distance to join Resolution Games. And I am happy to share my experience doing so with you.

It is that amazing time of year where Resolutioners from all around the world get to partake in the ultimate combination of work and play at our annual off-site, Hi Resolution! This year we packed our bags and medieval themed costumes to head off to a magical castle in the humble Swedish town of Vadstena.

Here’s the second installment of our new series aimed at highlighting the different roles and work perspectives at Resolution Games, starring industry veteran and our AR Technical Director Magnus.

Have you ever wondered what a game developer does outside of work? Of course, we play games but we have many other interests and hobbies as well. We recently caught up with several of our colleagues to find out what they do when they walk out of the office.

Welcome to our new article series, where we highlight a diverse set of job roles and share some personal thoughts on what it’s like working at our company. First up is Simon who works as a games programmer.

As mentioned before, we use the Rust programming language to implement some of the functionality of the tool in one of our games. The name of the game has now been released -Ultimechs - and we recently published a gameplay reveal trailer.While we use Rust for the core gameplay, we still use Unity for everything else in the game. Unity has excellent support for rendering the graphics, interfacing with the audio system, reading input from different kinds of controllers, and building for different platforms. We still want to use Unity as a familiar tool for many things, so only the logic for the gameplay and network connectivity is written in Rust. The reasoning behind using Rust for those things were mentioned in the previous blog post, so now is the time to go deeper into the technical details about how we mix Rust and C# code.

Today is the first anniversary of the launch of Demeo, and what a year it has been! We released to rave reviews, shipped two additional adventures, won the overwhelmingly humbling award of VR Game of the Year by The VR Awards and most recently expanding to an audience outside VR with Demeo: PC Edition. This is just the beginning for our dear game. To celebrate, we’re taking this moment to look back and give you a behind the scenes peek into the design journey of Demeo from our UI/UX Designer Conor’s perspective.

Having started Resolution Games in 2015, I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of today’s modern VR industry since its inception.

With the industry as firmly established as it is today, game developers are collectively coming to an understanding of what works and what doesn’t for VR games. Now truly compelling gaming experiences that just happen to be in VR are readily available.

So where do we go from here?

Luis “Luigi” is a Game Programmer on Blaston. He has a background working as a game developer generalist since 2014, developing applications mostly targeted for VR platforms. In October 2021 he moved from Brazil to Sweden and joined Resolution Games. Here he shares his experience of implementing the brand new Passthrough API feature in Blaston for Meta Quest 2.

In honor of National Pet Day, we’d like to highlight some of our favorite coworkers - our pets! Aren’t they adorable?

At Resolution Games we love game jams. We host them at our office and you can often find out employees participating in them with other organizations. We hosted our first game jam in two years this past January. As a company, we value game jams because they are a good opportunity to take a break from our normal tasks, play around with new game ideas and technologies and collaborate with colleagues that aren’t on our normal teams.

Each and every year, Fast Company publishes a list of the world’s Most Innovative Companies. It’s a list that nearly every company wants to appear on, but so few ever get the chance. At Resolution Games, we are incredibly humbled and honored to be included in this year’s selection of the world’s most innovative AR and VR companies.

I am often asked how individuals can support the work for more diversity and inclusion. Therefore I want to share some practical ideas about what we can all do.

Here are five things that we can all do. Not just on International Women's Day, but every day.

The “metaverse” is everywhere you look these days, and it seems like the tech community is largely in agreement that it will exist in some form or another someday. Today though, it’s still very much in its infancy. That in itself makes it an exciting time, with many questions left unanswered in terms of just what the metaverse should look like; how it will grow and take shape, as well as how companies and brands will participate in a way that’s truly meaningful for the next generation of digital citizens.

We met up with Tomas Ahlström, Studio Manager at Resolution Tech in Linköping, to talk about the new office and what’s going on with the team there.

I’ve been approached many times both offline and online with the question “How do I get into the games industry?". This is a very interesting question because it’s different for everyone. For me, working with games has always been a lifelong dream and that question was something I thought about a lot during my childhood.

Industry musings to mark our 7th anniversary

January 2022 marks the seventh anniversary of Resolution Games. When we first opened the studio, the modern market for VR had barely taken its first steps. Google Cardboard had launched a few months before, Oculus had just released their second development kit (DK2), and all we had to keep us going was a wealth of games industry experience and our unbridled optimism about what the future of VR could be.

It’s not at all unusual for some people to get valuable hands-on experience or even land a position at their favorite company through an internship. But what is it like to intern at Resolution Games? Today we are talking to a few of our current and former interns to discuss their experience.