Thought this might be helpful to some. It's a list of game developers and VFX companies that I know about. If you know of any not on the list let me know. I try to keep it fairly up to date.
Thats cool thanks for doing that. Heh EA are conspicous by their absence. So are quite a few others in the bay area If you dont mind me adding.
Pixar in Emeryville ( we can dream ) and ILM over the bridge. Also over the bridge in San Rafael are visual concepts. Oh and Crystal Dynamics ( working on Tomb Raider right now ) and theres a Sony games studio in San Mateo. 989 studios I think. Also Z-axis in the East bay in Hayward ( http://www.z-axis.com/ ) and then theres Scotts co. Castaway entertainment. Im sure there are a few more too so I'l have a think.
Thanks for the response guys. I think I'll add in a section for publishers like EA, Atari, etc., since they have developers in more than one location and usually have their own job finder section for all their developers. I'm finding that some game developer's sites now point directly to their publisher's, or I can't even find a site for the developer, just the publisher, which is a shame. I'd rather know about the developer independantly from the publisher, but I guess once they're bought up they don't have their own identity anymore.
Oops, forgot about some of the biggies, thanks Daz. Isn't ILM moving to the Presidio in San Francisco?
Rick: I have a php bulletin board on my site, so I'm assuming that means I have access, but I don't know that much about it. That does sound cool though.
A little known one here in Seattle is nightlight studios (http://nightlightstudios.com), that's the one where Brom is art director. I don't think they've released any games yet.
Well how 'bout that? I hope these guys don't end up with the same fate as Joe Maderuira's game company. If they don't run out of money, I expect cool things from them.
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Theres also quite a bit of companies up here in Canada.
Great archive though man - thanks!
Stockholm Sweden
London Ontario Canada
New York, New York
but.. it could end up being EA soon
We also have Respon Design in Portland, Oregon and Wallace Creative, Inc.
Pixar in Emeryville ( we can dream ) and ILM over the bridge. Also over the bridge in San Rafael are visual concepts. Oh and Crystal Dynamics ( working on Tomb Raider right now ) and theres a Sony games studio in San Mateo. 989 studios I think. Also Z-axis in the East bay in Hayward ( http://www.z-axis.com/ ) and then theres Scotts co. Castaway entertainment. Im sure there are a few more too so I'l have a think.
Oops, forgot about some of the biggies, thanks Daz. Isn't ILM moving to the Presidio in San Francisco?
If you don't, and people are interested enough, I could host one. I've got loads of space and bandwidth.
Added them to list, and sent them a resume.
I forgot about page 44 studios in SF
http://www.page44.com/
Also in the Bay area :
http://www.flagshipstudios.com/index.htm
And in Arizona:
http://www.rainbowstudios.com/
Thanks for the help guys, keep 'em coming.