Supercell’s game teams are expanding – starting with Clash
Mar 29, 2023 19:41:36 GMT
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After years of making games with tiny teams, Supercell’s famous working culture is evolving.
It’s probably about time, too. Clash of Clans is now ten years old, and still has just 32 people working on it. Now, Supercell is planning its biggest-ever team expansion: it is hiring around 10 new staff on Clash of Clans, and game lead Stuart McGaw tells us there could be another batch of new roles going live later this year, too.
It’s a big step for his team, and one in keeping with some of the thoughts Supercell boss Ilkka Paananen expressed in his annual ‘state of Supercell’ blog in February. Debates around team size are happening across Supercell, says McGaw.
“Like always at Supercell, it’s down to individual teams, and lots of teams are having similar kinds of conversations,” he tells us. “For some teams it’s not about growing themselves, it’s about finding the right partners to get support.”
It’s probably about time, too. Clash of Clans is now ten years old, and still has just 32 people working on it. Now, Supercell is planning its biggest-ever team expansion: it is hiring around 10 new staff on Clash of Clans, and game lead Stuart McGaw tells us there could be another batch of new roles going live later this year, too.
It’s a big step for his team, and one in keeping with some of the thoughts Supercell boss Ilkka Paananen expressed in his annual ‘state of Supercell’ blog in February. Debates around team size are happening across Supercell, says McGaw.
“Like always at Supercell, it’s down to individual teams, and lots of teams are having similar kinds of conversations,” he tells us. “For some teams it’s not about growing themselves, it’s about finding the right partners to get support.”