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Halfbrick Studios

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A fulfilling place to work if you're willing to sacrifice a lot - Gameplay Programmer Halfbrick Studios Employee Review

3.0
24 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you stand out and put in the work you may have opportunities to lead a project. Pretty good leave policies, but only if you actually have the room to take it. Likely to work on games that will be shipped to players relatively quickly.

Cons

If you are outside of the Australia time zone, then you will have a much tougher time finding balance in communication and syncing meetings. Pay is more based on initial role which can fluctuate a lot, and also biased towards Australian standards even if you live elsewhere. This can be good if it favors your country, though. Junior devs have a lot of control over production code and projects in general. There isn't enough supervision to work in a maintainable environment. Lack of long-term planning leads to messy project iteration and frequent crunch to hit deadlines, even if the nature of the project/feature has changed. Focus has shifted in recent years to a subscription service rather than new games. Games haven't been forgotten, but it's hard to tell how much the subscription maintenance will affect dev work going forward.

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5.0
24 June 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great culture Great teams to work with Excellent growth opportunities

Cons

None that I can think of

4.0
17 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Fully remote work - Good Aussie labor laws - Great teammates

Cons

- Small teams - Lots of on-going projects

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