CURRENT ASSEMBLY
Founded 1987
Employees 843
Key staff Gareth Edmondson (studio director), Alistair Hope (creative director)
URL www.creative-assembly.com
Selected softography Rome: Total War, Alien: Isolation, Total War: Warhammer
Current projects Untitled sci-fi shooter
Even 26 years ago, Alien: Isolation creative director Alistair Hope was desperate to make videogames, he tells us. "I actually right to the end of my fine art degree. Was I really going to have a go at being a traditional artist? And I picked up a copy of Edge, the one with Mario 64 on the cover. It was this era as 16bit was moving into the 3D world, and it all looked super-exciting. Then, at the back, there were adverts for jobs in game development. That blew my mind. I'd always assumed it would be such a cool job that it wouldn't be advertised anywhere. From that moment, I decided that's what I'm going to do - and three months later I started at CA."
This story is from the August 2022 edition of Edge UK.
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