Blocktober is done for another year! As a studio, we’ve never really focused on it, but this year we really fancied showing off.

We’ve written 8,140 words, made 32 videos, and show 35 images of three of our games to shine a light on the level design process. 

Let's take a look.

We gave Lucky’s Lagoon the Blocktober treatment! We spoke to Midas and Saf to explore a number of things; why is the map shaped that way, why are the traps placed where they are, and why is the map angled the way it is?

We also showed some early sketches, the blockouts themselves, and how the map has progressed to its final, fully arted stage.

Secondly, we dived into the inner-workings of Gears Tactics. We sat down with a whole bunch of our level designers, who explored some of the tiles they built for the game. They explained the thought process behind each and demonstrated how they went from blockouts to final.

We don't often get to show off detail like this in games of this scale, so we hope you enjoyed it!

Last, but by no means least, is Dirty Bomb.

After we ceased active development on Dirty Bomb we showed off some unreleased content that would have been coming next. One piece of that content was Agency; the next map.

For Blocktober we wanted to really show off Agency but decided that that wasn’t enough.

We did a deep dive into Castle, with the Level Designers explaining what makes a Dirty Bomb map tick, and how they start designing it, before explaining what they learned from Castle and how it would have carried into the next two maps.

The first of those was Agency, which we showed concept art for, detailed how the map would play, and included a few flythroughs of the level itself.

Finally, we revealed Skyline. This was one of the more unique and ambitious Dirty Bomb levels, and would have been a culmination of this part of the narrative, and pulled together all of the lessons we learned about the game’s level design so far.

Speaking of Outcasters, we’re continuing to have too much fun with folks on social media (and getting paid for it?)

October was the Spooky Month, and we really leaned into it. We’ve shown a handful of new and spooky characters, we’ve come up with a completely original spooky movie poster that has nothing to do with The Shining, and we've shown off a brand-new map in Cemetery Hills!

In addition, we’ve also been spotted in a number of Stadia videos!

• Good Stuff

• What is Stadia

• You’ve Got What It Takes

You read that right. Fifty. 50. Five Zero. Some really cool stuff is happening at Splash Damage right now. But it’s so cool we can’t talk about it yet.

One of these open roles might have your name it, though. So why not get applying?