A Sheffield game studio founded by three brothers in 2020 to make Undisputed, a licensed boxing video game.
Steel City Interactive, often shortened to SCI, is a video game developer based in Sheffield. Its main project is Undisputed, which it describes as the first major boxing video game in more than a decade. The studio works with boxing organisations and well-known fighters to add detail and depth to the game, and it says it has built its own technology for the project.
Its stated mission is "to Become Undisputed", and it wants to bring boxing into a video game "like never before". The values it lists on its careers page are ambition, collaboration, open communication and staff wellbeing. It says everyone has a voice and that the game's success belongs to everyone at the company, which is the studio's own claim about its working style.
SCI was founded in 2020 by three brothers, Ash, Asif and Asad Habib, who started from a shared passion for video games and boxing and built a prototype. The company says it has grown to about 70 employees, and Sheffield is its home base. Its careers page also lists Leamington Spa as a location, and press coverage mentions a new studio there, although no current openings were shown there when we looked. The page paints Sheffield as a good place to live, with music, food, sport and quick access to the Peak District.
The studio's partners include the WBC, Ring Magazine, CompuBox and BoxRec, as well as several boxing organisations and fighters. It describes itself as enthusiastic and nimble, valuing work-life balance, friendly and productive teamwork and open communication. It also says it is diverse, with veteran game developers, graduates and people who came from other industries. The only role shown on the page when we read it was an HR Officer, based in Sheffield with hybrid working, which is a reminder that a games studio employs people outside design and coding too.
If you are interested in this kind of work, sports games draw on animation, physics, artificial intelligence, sound, art and licensing teams, along with the producers and support staff who keep a studio of 70 people running. Following how Undisputed is updated and discussed by players gives a good picture of what a live sports game team does every day. Sheffield has a long tradition of making things, and a studio that lists open communication and wellbeing among its values is telling candidates what it hopes to be like. Reading interviews with the founders and following the game's community will help you understand what the people there care about before you apply.
Website: steelcityinteractive.co.uk
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