Aww you made me ink.
Squid games alt!?!
I inked myself
R they hiring??
I googled the address and it's called Ink Games
They have a ‘Head of Influencers’, ‘Senior Brand Ambassador’, ‘Director of Growth’, ‘Director of Strategic Acquisitions & Fin. Tech.’, ‘Director of Investor Relations’, ‘Director of Brand’, and ‘Director, Customer Service’ (for a team of two counting the director) for a 35 person company (counting them) apparently and that’s not even list all the executives, just the ones that seem very excessive for a company this size. 15 chiefs, directors, and VPs total with only 20 employees remaining.
you're prob not seeing the offshore teams
Screams money laundering and or black ops
You're thinking of the (always empty) Restoration Hardware mansion down the block.
nah, turns out you can make massive amounts of money with a little team making fun games for tiny super computers in everyone's pockets.
They specialize in mobile games where the players get paid out in prizes and make an income playing the games…
If your connections start inviting others, we’ll pay you for those too. Our payment and tracking technology handles this all for you…you share, we pay.
So it’s a pyramid scheme.
It’s a reverse funnel system!
But where do I put my feet?
Dee, his feet?
Stop eating the berries Charlie!
No! It's more of a triangle plot.
I like the way you worded that 🤙
A prismatoid conspiracy
Can I call myself a boss babe?
wow that website screams nepo baby startup lmao
all I really came away with is Cornhole, fireball, and in-office skateboarding.
sign me up! /s
Once you ship your mobile game with micropays you just fuck on off doing shots on a skateboard while playing cornhole as the cash rolls in.
I scrolled through the photos of their team - I can’t imagine being listed last, after the “chief barking officer” office dog.
Aaaaand I worked with that person once 😂
Below the founder’s son and dog: one of the 4-5 women in the company. It’s literally mostly white men.
Who would've guessed that an indie game studio would be comprised of mostly white men? /s
As someone who works with a lot of non-white developers, it’s disappointing to see - some companies are making diversity a priority. Some aren’t. As much as your sarcasm suggests that game studios are mostly white men, it’s not nearly as true as it was.
I'm a game developer/3d artist by trade and work as an art director now. I can tell you that 95% of my graduating class and probably 80% of the resumes I see are white males. They're simply the largest pool to hire from, by leaps and bounds.
That’s odd! Even our intern class is fairly diverse, which is composed of current grad and undergrad students. My father is a developer for a smaller company in a different city, and they have more women and POC than Ink Games. The last industry demographics I saw (internal company doc) cited less than 50% of developers are white; Forbes’ stats for private tech companies (all jobs) show 65% white. From what you’re saying, there’s a big difference from place to place - I wonder what factors contribute to that (genuinely wondering, not sarcastically).
Not sure, I worked for an EA subsidiary fresh out of college and I didn't have a minority or female colleague at all (2 years). This was in 2009-2011. I have had POC and female colleagues since but in my 15 year career, they're far and few between. I've seen various stats online, but at GDC a few years ago they had a chart that said around 70% of the game developers and artists were white and around 90% were male.
It’s literally mostly white men.
And? Why is that important to point out?
It’s not representative of the community - gaming or otherwise - or even of the gaming industry. In the industry, various sources indicate the split is closer to 70% men, 30% women, so nearly one of every three industry employees is female. For Ink, it’s one of seven. That’s a big difference, and it suggests that hiring practices - or the work environment itself - are less open to women than that of similar companies. It could be unintentional, but it’s noteworthy, as it makes them an anomaly compared to industry peers recruiting from similar pools of potential employees. And that’s without even looking at how few POC they employ, which is also less than the industry average.
Looking at the gaming community: gamers are nearly evenly split between men and women now. Diverse perspectives in development tend to create products more broadly enjoyable. So yeah, it’s noteworthy that they stand out among their peers, even if you don’t care at all about people of different backgrounds, genders, etc having similar opportunities.
That’s a big difference, and it suggests that hiring practices - or the work environment itself - are less open to women than that of similar companies.
You have absolutely no idea about that and it's just a giant hunch on your part. Have you ever thought that maybe instead of making the (wrong) conclusion that the industry is actively conspiring to keep out women that they just aren't as interested in writing software as men?
There's also a massive gender imbalance in elementary school teachers as well, I guess women are actively conspiring to keep men out of there.
You have your head in the sand if you don’t think there’s gender discrimination in tech, starting in school.
Gender discrimination especially in the fighter fire and plumbing trade too
Are there problems with discrimination? Sure. There is in every industry. We're not going to escape that. But you need to stop approaching problems with an adversarial angle. You see a male-dominated space and ask "how have men been conspiring to keep others unlike them out of this space?" when instead you should be asking "what led to this space being mostly men?" Stop making conclusions and then searching for evidence to back it up. That's the antithesis to the scientific method.
Here's something I suggest you check out: Brainwash, a Norwegian documentary about this very issue. It seeks to answer a simple question: why is it that in the most gender equal country in the world that men and women still gravitate toward traditional roles? I think it will be eye-opening for you.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNLCvNeqf2UlfIB
Don’t speak da truf here my man
“literally mostly” is like literally so like dumb to say
Literally - meaning actually. I counted. Mostly - six of seven employees are men.
What’s wrong with hiring white men?
Nothing. It’s just happening disproportionately there in comparison to similar companies within the same industry.
Most of those portraits are hot garbage. They’re terribly lit, a couple are out of focus, and taking a color photo and making it black and white almost never looks good. Also why is everyone looking to the side?
He didn't land that kickflip -_-
That kickflip was dogshit. It’s called a “mobbed flip”, it happens when you don’t kick out enough to level out the board. 95% sure it was not a land.
I'll check back in a few months for the "Ink Games shutters doors" posting.
happens a lot that startups piss away an inordinate amount of startup capital on decor, which doesn't add to the gameplay whatsoever.
Cornhole is fun at least?
I got "Players get Played!" Wait. That's not right.
I want you to know I clicked on that link solely to see what a nepo baby startup website looked like. I was expecting Entertainment720
ok but you never said "i didn't find entertainment720" sooooo
Jean-Ralphio vibes for sure. Also choosing the Domain for a video game office is peak tech-bro startup energy.
kick flips, korn hole, and ketamine.
Aww man it’s been a couple weeks:( well for the cereal that is.
There are 3 game companies who have offices at the domain. It's actually pretty nice to work in, it's one of the few places in austin that's in walkable area.
I can't argue with the walkable nature of the domain, for sure that's valid. But I stand by my claim lol
Back when Rock Rose wasn’t a thing yet, Blizzard had an office there. I ran the Starbucks there for a minute, and those guys came in every day.
Blizzard never had an office at the Domain.
Might have been another gaming company? I know some of them worked for Blizzard at some point, perhaps at a different time than when I interacted with them 12+ years ago. Just remember them saying they walked from their office at [recognizable gaming company].
it was Bioware. I worked there and walked to that Starbucks every day lol.
If the domain is considered one of the only “walkable areas” I’m actually fully against walkbility. The domain is a corporate hell hole.
Who are the other two? I know Panic Button is near by at the Arboretum but I wasn’t aware of others in the area.
Visual concepts and Arkane (before Microsoft shut down the studio here)
Zynga and 2K are there as well, both owned by Take-Two Interactive
2k, zynga
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I’m sorry but huh?
Pills, baby!
Entertainment 720
"Let's put video of doing anything but our work on our website. Also make sure the editing sucks too."
(I'm throwing stones, but this caught my eye because my glass house is that back when I got promoted to Principal Software Engineer, I updated my title on an internal org chart as 'Principle', and my boss who'd got me promoted teased me about that for a while)
The inflated titles are laughable. Whoooole lotta chief, vp, head, principal, lead, etc for a small NFT shop that is way past its expiration date.
Seriously! I felt bad for the guy that only got "customer service." Give him a bigger title too😡
How about Human Interaction Relations Officer? HIRO for short.
I mean, maybe they're drawing principles?
Yeah, like Inside Out, but about ethics and moral philosophy!
Those portraits scream AI generated content with the prompt “Bay area startup with a focus on diversity but not too much.”
They are so, so bad.
What tipped you off? The fact the first 5 seconds of the website was someone playing cornhole at work?
What about their website screams that? Or did you just want to use the phrase “nepo baby” to sound on trend?
drives me nuts when the school kids these days won't stop saying "nepo baby" this and "trust fund brat" that! so exhausting, and i'm sorry for any psychic damage i have inflicted on your mental health today
All their names sound fake also
That's more normal than you'd think. I've got a friend with a small business and they use fake names on their website. As if someone was gonna poach their employees lol
Ink Games
I see white people.
probably some mobile game startup
basically the only business it could be with that specific logo. that or a tattoo parlor specializing in a cartoony/anime/vibrant color palette aesthetic. then again, a domain tattoo parlor would absolutely have the early 2010s geometric wolf/owl superimposed over a dream catcher aesthetic, so mobile game startup it is. 🕵🏼♂️
Idk I think it could be some ridiculous sushi restaurant, and I would at least google the menu.
Yes
Austin branch of HYDRA
HANG GLIDER 🫡
Ink Games, a mobile gaming company. Talked to one of the devs, cool guy, seems like a cool place to work.
No we have to hate on it based on nothing
lol their company is about putting microtransactions in games. Ie, garbage company that’s literal purpose is to make games worse for consumers.
Yes ink games. I work at the domain and was sitting outside one day on break and they gave me $50 to give a positive video reaction to playing one of their mobile games haha. Super nice energetic people
Sounds like a foolproof business strategy
Time to go randomly sit outside that place at all hours of the day. Im’a get me fiddy BUCKS, son!
Why can they all not look at the camera?
The first rule of Squid Club is: you do not talk about Squid Club.
Hentai film studio
That would make it less shady than a mobile game dev studio.
That’s such a dope logo
And this whole time I was hoping it was a secret/elite bar or something like that
Dudes are actually pretty cool. Got to hang out in the office via some mutual friends before and it seems like a great place to work tbh
Ink Games i knew someone who worked there
Money laundering game studio.
The tentacle grape store.
Thank you! I have always wondered this myself haha
I dunno but this is a great marketing strategy on your part
🐙
isn't/wasn't it a NFT game company?
It is a place where super smart ideas die too soon.
This one feels… personal.
Yes, I was an octopus.
How was it?
I liked the warm tropical oceans. The limb regeneration was a mind f’er.
Oh, I had thought that maybe you had worked there.
The R'lyeh store - importing all the dreadful, unnatural, non-Euclidean, antediluvian ephemera you need to gear yourself up for the apocalyptic return of the Old Ones to take out their wrath on this doomed world and its puny pitiful natives species of humans. (Have a nice day and come again!)
it's the octopus store
The Purple Pus
I was gonna guess another shitty speakeasy
R'leyh, where Cthulu lies dreaming. And you can get a venti soy double-whip latter.
Speak easy called The Sneaky Squid
Nah, that logo would have a hat on the octopus.
swingers club
I played their monopoly like mobile game and wish I had not. Do better Ink Gaming. Make an actual game. Not a money grab. Grinding hours of pressing one button to have an almost non existent chance to win a $20 gift card is fucking lame. You're perpetuating the degradation of gaming.
The most handsome & cute is the Chief Barking Officer 😆🥰🐶❤️
That’s 122
No idea but that definitely looks new
Don’t know but as an Austin resident it is my duly elected responsibility to let everyone know the domain sucks and it’s 100% car dependent and impossible to walk around
I don't know
They are building the future of gaming! I installed their 1 app. I support local business xD
Edit: prize kingdom is the app
It’s a front for an illithid colony
“It’s Oculus, no I mean it’s da octopus.”
Scrolling down and seeing their team - what a diverse group! /s
imagine being the only one listed below the dog.
This is an ad post, lmao. Op 100% knows this place
Octopus place
Easy
“Must’nt ask, not it’s business!”
-One Slim Lad
I heard using Google is hard.
Literally words on the glass.
Expensive shit that gets TokTik'd that you don't need.
You must be new or visiting?
Not my job to do your marketing
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It’s the studio of a game developer called Ink Games