In September of 2007 Shadowrun developer FASA Studio’s shut down, about 50% of the staff was absorbed into Microsoft Game’s Studios. A few months later a company called Smith & Tinker was founded by the original founder of FASA corporation. Many see Smith & Tinker as the successor to FASA Studios. Around the time of founding, S&T licensed out FASA Studio’s old IP’s, they did not reveal their intentions with them.
Today I decided to pay S&T’s Job site a visit, until recently the page was left completely empty. Today when I checked however I saw they were indeed hiring, but not for game developers, instead all the job listing’s were for web based development.
Sr Software Development Engineer
Sr Software Development Engineer in Test
At first I didn’t look much into it, until I noticed all job page’s had the following similar lines in them:
If your fu is strong, we want you to bring your hands-on lead-level developer skills to perform all development related tasks in developing a Web based management platform for an exciting new connected toy and Web gaming experience.
This is going to be filed in the Rumour section’s for now, the page’s also say C++ knowledge is needed, this could also mean “real” game development.
Your thoughts?
Filed under: Fasa Studios, Rumor
Smith & Tinker just released their first game to public beta, and it’s called Nanovor.com