New Relic Studio reveal

Jump back to quoted post22 Oct 2017, 20:35 PMWhat Doth Life?!

That's a lot of square-footage for four people.

Jump back to quoted post22 Oct 2017, 20:35 PMWhat Doth Life?!

That's a lot of square-footage for four people.

Jump back to quoted post22 Oct 2017, 20:35 PMWhat Doth Life?!

That's a lot of square-footage for four people.

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/relic-entertainment-vancouver-mount-pleasant-headquarters-285-west-5th-avenue
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https://www.facebook.com/VCBuzz/posts/208303684507089
Relic Entertainment has announced plans to move its headquarters to a new mixed-use building in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

The Vancouver-based gaming company, one of the city’s oldest gaming companies, will vacate its existing Yaletown office and move to the Nickel, a new four-storey building at 285 West 5th Avenue – the former Hudson Plating site.

The building has a floor area of 71,000 sq. ft., including light industrial on the ground floor and office and creative spaces on the upper three floors.

Relic is set to occupy 47,000 sq. ft., about 66% of the building’s space, allowing the company to almost double its workforce from its current 180 employees to up to 350.

“We are excited to welcome Relic to Mount Pleasant, an area of Vancouver where we have been actively transforming a number of formerly heavy industrial sites into places of employment for the industries of the future,” said Brent Sawchyn, the principal for PC Urban Properties Group, the building’s developer, in a statement.

“Re-imagining this particular site has come with serious challenges, but we believe Vancouver’s future lies in repurposing these properties, allowing them to reach their true potential and provide spaces for sustainable employment.”

Relic’s new headquarters will have an interior design that reflects the “cerebral work of making strategy games” such as pieces of code as murals and creating a space that can become a hub for the public gaming community.

The building is set to reach completion in early-2019, and Relic is expected to move into its new space shortly after in the summer.

Founded in 1997, the SEGA-owned company is currently marking its 20th anniversary by partnering with Microsoft Studios to make the fourth instalment of the Age of Empires series.

Other titles Relic is known for creating include Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, Homeworld, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

Mount Pleasant is of course one of Vancouver’s tech hubs, and a number of new developments proposed or planned for the neighbourhood are designed with tech companies in mind.

Last year, DHX Studios moved into a new five-storey, 75,000-sq-ft building at 380 West 5th Avenue. The television entertainment company, which produces animation and live action for kids and families, employs 700 people at this new purpose-built Vancouver office.

Further east at the southwest corner of Main Street and East 4th Avenue, a major multi-building tech campus that includes a new headquarters for Hootsuite is proposed by local developer Westbank.

http://gamejobhunter.com/2017/11/21/new-office-relic-coming-2019/
Exciting news for the Relic team! As covered by Urbanized, Relic will be moving into a shiny new headquarters in Vancouver in early 2019. The new office is being designed by the firm PC Urban in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, in a building that was known as the Hudson Plating Metal Works in a former life.*SNIP*

http://www.pcurban.ca/275-west-5th-vancouver/


RE-IMAGINING THE HUDSON PLATING METAL WORKS SITE

Project
275 West 5th, Vancouver, BC
Category
Commercial
275 West 5th Avenue is PC Urban’s third and largest acquisition in the Mount Pleasant area. Historically the heart of industrial warehousing and light manufacturing in Vancouver, Mount Pleasant is a quickly gentrifying area spurred on by the City’s rapid densification, the re-development of False Creek Flats into the Olympic Village, and the importance of rapid transit and its proximity to the downtown core and surrounding residential cores. We will redevelop this 23,000 sf property into a 71,000 sf commercial building targeted toward the technology and design/creative industries seeking a home in Mount Pleasant.

This property was home to the Hudson Plating metal works. The existing building will be demolished, the property remediated, and replaced with a new building of 23,000 sf of light industrial/commercial space at grade and three levels of employment generating space in 15,000 sf floor plates. There will be 97 underground parking stalls in addition to generous end of trip facilities and bike parking. Views to downtown and the North Shore mountains are extraordinary. The property is a short 3-block walk to the Cambie Street Canada Line Station.

The building is under development and in the preleasing stage.

Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 23:17 PManerkas

Relic: our headquarters has been upgraded, time to unleash our heavy tanks. (imagine it with bad german voice

Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 23:17 PManerkas

Relic: our headquarters has been upgraded, time to unleash our heavy tanks. (imagine it with bad german voice

*SNIP*Mount Pleasant, an eclectic mix of early 20th-century houses, a couple of historic apartment buildings, warehouses, old factories and operations like Hudson, has been rigorously protected for industrial use as a result, and is a case in point: Almost all of it is zoned as industrial, both in city plans and in Metro Vancouver’s 2011 regional growth strategy, which introduced a strong emphasis on preserving industrial land in the Lower Mainland.

But the area – minutes from downtown and suddenly a hipster favourite for work and play – is facing huge pressure as new kinds of businesses push to get in, some of them claiming they are the contemporary version of industrial.

Definition of gentrification

: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

*SNIP*
Relic began to look for a new headquarters in 2016 that could allow the 20-year old company to grow their employees from 180 to up to 350.

"Selecting the future home of the studio was a complicated process,” said Relic general manager Justin Dowdeswell. “We worked hard to find the right space, the right neighbourhood, the right partner, and the right location for staff – down to charting every employee’s journey to the office."

1,321 Km ridden, 39,615 calories burned, and 286 Kg of greenhouse gasses saved! That's how Relic rolls on #BTWW
https://twitter.com/relicgames/status/925097523722768385

Wednesday 12th April 2017
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-04-12-sega-had-a-plan-to-quietly-become-a-powerhouse-in-pc-publishing
*SNIP*
So much has changed. Relic was acquired at auction by Sega, which took over as publisher on Company of Heroes 2, and it is now gearing up for the launch of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III. It is no longer based in the financial district, moving instead to the reclaimed warehouses of Vancouver's Yaletown, a favourite location among the city's many game developers and tech startups.
Justin Dowdeswell, Relic's general manager, says the new offices are "not as flash" as the previous space, but it in many ways it is a better fit for the company. "It's where a lot of the Vancouver studios began,"

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-05-24-jurgen-post-the-sega-brand-will-come-back-and-start-to-flourish-again
"The games is where the love of the community starts, then secondly for the studio, and thirdly there is the publisher. So at some point, the success of the studios will start to reflect on Sega."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7ddq59/we_are_amplitude_studios_ask_us_anything_and/
We are Amplitude Studios! Ask us anything and enter our giveaway!
But just as important, how long do you see yourselves supporting Endless Space 2? What are your sales goals for ES2 in its lifetime?
[–]Slowhands_amplitudeAmplitude;
We don't really have specific sales goals. Or let me put it this way: As long as we can keep paying the electric bills we'll keep adding content We started the studio because we love doing this, and that drives us much more than financial goals. Unless we go bankrupt and have to fire everyone, of course...

In essence, we envision the type of games that we would love to play, and then we create them.

Our studio is different from most others. We value ideas and innovation so every game we create is a true reflection of our entire teams’ capabilities. We believe in the autonomous, entrepreneurial spirit of an indie developer – only with the extensive resources of a large publisher.

A Chief Operating Officer (COO), also called the chief operations officer, is a position that can be one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, comprising part of the "C-Suite". The COO is responsible for the daily operation of the company,[1] and routinely reports to the highest ranking executive, usually the chief executive officer (CEO).[2] The COO is usually the second in command at the firm, especially if the highest ranking executive is the Chairman and CEO.

The 33-year-old developer was killed in the crash. His wife and their child survived the crash, thanks to Brian's last-minute sacrifice.
According to Erin Wood, she and the baby would not have survived the crash had Brian not swerved at the last minute, taking the brunt of the impact himself.

http://docplayer.net/53344086-Developer-satisfaction-survey-2016.html
https://www.igda.org/
Snapshot: Preferred Employer
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10% of the vote followed by a tie between BioWare and “my own studio” (both with 5%).

Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2017, 04:32 AMd0ggY

Funny that relic gets a new Headquarters, so they can program AoE4 with fixed Hotkeys you are only able to change through 3rd Party! :>

Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2017, 04:32 AMd0ggY

Funny that relic gets a new Headquarters, so they can program AoE4 with fixed Hotkeys you are only able to change through 3rd Party! :>

But a new Headquarters maybe blows some fresh wind into them and a rethinking on how they do things (pretty much the thing we need to hope for)

Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2017, 11:39 AMDonnieChan

i thought about that too. but one of the problems is how you want to conceptualize the hotkey bindings.

there are like 50 different abilities throughtout all units per faction (repair, smoke, volley fire overdrive...) do you want to assign each ability a hotkey? there are not enough key on keyboard.

a fifferent approach is assigning ability 1, 2, 3 to each unit however. but then you have the problem that blitzkrieg with one unit is secure mode with another for example.