Creating unforgettable gaming experiences is what makes us tick – and has been since the beginning.
In 1992, a creative spark prompted four friends in the Amiga demo scene to found Digital Illusions, bringing the cult hit Pinball Dreams to the world. Ten years (and a name change later) the land-air-sea warfare of Battlefield 1942 changed the future of the company – and online gaming – forever.
We fast forward an additional twenty years and we have just entered our fourth decade as a studio, joining forces with talented developers across the globe to form the Battlefield Studios team.
Building games is not a one-man-show, and we bring people from all over the globe with different experience and expertise to work together with one goal: create something extraordinary for our players!
How We Work
Doing what we do takes more than just computer screens. Work can be fun, especially in this industry, and mixing work with play is how we stay both efficient and innovative - delivering the best possible experience for our players. At the heart of it all is collaboration.
At DICE we structured our organization to be product driven - that means that multiple game pods are responsible for overseeing the development of our games from inception - to release - and through live services.
We believe that being product driven gives our teams the ownership, span of control, and autonomy to deliver the best games possible. Each of our game pods is led by producers and consists of a cross-functional groups of game artists, designers, development directors, and engineers to ensure that the game meets the studio's quality standards and, most importantly, is fun to play!
We playtest our games daily to make sure the decisions we are making are serving the game in the best way - so if you like to spend an hour or so a day testing games, this might just be the place for you!
Our Crafts
The product driven structure is supported by our strong crafts and their excellence - driving seamless collaboration across each pod. Explore our crafts a bit more below;
Content
Our Content Team thrives on transforming ideas into reality, constantly pushing the limits of our medium through concept art, immersive audio, and dynamic character movements. Inspired by a lifelong passion for video games, creativity, and artistry, we draw from gaming history, pop culture, and the natural world. While aiming for perfection, we embrace mistakes as learning opportunities, nurturing a culture of growth and collaboration to deliver exceptional content.
Development
Our Development Directors are the expert project managers at DICE. They keep our teams organized, instill confidence in achieving goals, and ensure schedule predictability with transparency and comprehensive reporting. They focus on the "How"—how to achieve our objectives, navigate from start to finish, and foster the culture and behaviors we desire.
Design
Our Designers craft captivating experiences by delving into what fascinates players, translating those insights into the rules and systems that shape our worlds. Prioritizing the player experience, we adopt a "gameplay first" approach, ensuring that games become social spaces for connection and enjoyment.
Production
Producers at DICE serve as our core Product Owners, accountable for aligning our products with player expectations and quality standards. They focus on the "What" and the "Why," ensuring a cohesive experience for our players. As Scrum Product Owners, they set milestones, communicate the product vision, and prioritize the backlog, all while understanding market, player, and business needs to guide decision-making.
Tech
Engineering at DICE is at the forefront of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Our mission is to empower the studio to achieve its full creative potential, delivering extraordinary fidelity and visual quality on a grand scale. Collaborating closely with Frostbite and other EA teams globally, our engineers are part of one of the largest and most talented communities in game development, fostering growth and development opportunities.
Meet some of the team!
Building Something Extraordinary
Part of creating our game worlds is going out into the real world to collect reference material. We've sent our audio team to record WW1 plane engine sounds, and our 3D prop designers to the islands of Hawaii to digitally scan the terrain. For Star Wars™ Battlefront™, we were even fortunate enough to visit the Lucasfilm archives and work with the actual props and models from the Star Wars movies, a dream come true for many of our DICErs. From the coldest peaks of Iceland - the lush forests of Red Wood - to the lands of Brazil - we have really been around the world to bring these locations to life in our games.
We also want to make sure that you feel supported and that you can grow with us. We want you to not only feel that you can bring your best self to DICE, but that you also feel that you have the tools and support to grow professionally and personally. We offer many different ways for you to learn and develop within, and outside, your area of expertise. Being part of Electronic Arts also gives us the network to expand that knowledge and learning to thousands of developers from across the globe.
How We Play
Just as we pride ourselves in our work, we believe in taking the time for some R&R.
Whether we’ve just released a game, or summer has arrived, there’s always a reason to celebrate! We organize a yearly DICE Family Day at the theme park Gröna Lund where we have the entire park just to ourselves (no lines = heaven!), we’ve arranged massive 500 v 500 lightsaber battle in one of our grand release parties, created our own summer arts and crafts festival ‘/AFK Festival’, and much much more. Our in-house bar is the home for our regular “after work” events where DICE folks can meet up and get to know each other better.
One of the highlights for us was of course when we in collaboration with the Swedish Royal Opera celebrated our 30th Anniversary with a unique experience at the Royal Opera featuring music from DICEs audio legacy. A memorable show for us all!
Building Inclusive Teams
It’s Pretty Simple…
We strongly believe that a community open to different voices is a community that thrives. We promote respect, equality, and an inclusive culture - our games are meant to be enjoyed by everyone, and our teams need to reflect and embody just that.
“I am committed to create a space where everyone that walks through the doors at DICE feels they have a safe space to work. Our commitment as leaders are to drive for positive change in our workplace and our industry. To build the best games our teams should represent our players - and therefore have to be a mix of backgrounds, ages, gender, and experiences.
At DICE, our strategy has to be three fold; short-, mid-, and long-term.
For the short-term we have to support our minority groups via mentoring or sponsoring new talents entering our industry, sharing our experience, and helping these talents to grow.
Mid-term we need to work on our bias through all levels from recruitment - to our development processes.
In the long term we have to educate parents and children; it is cool to work in our industry, but most important is that anybody can join us and every voice has a value here.
Throughout our work we also always make sure our values are reflected in the games we build - so they also reflect our studio that makes them, and our players that play them.”- Rebecka Coutaz, GM VP DICE
We hold ourselves, and our leaders, accountable in maintaining healthy and collaborative teams.
It starts with how we hire, making sure we train all our hiring managers in spotting unconscious biases during the interview process - so that they can make educated and grounded choices. We continue to support our teams internally by offering all our leaders and managers 1-on-1 coaching through our dedicated Coaching function, so that they can grow themselves in their role and build stronger teams. Through our EA network, everyone can get additional mentoring from one of our many global senior talent that has signed up to share their knowledge in our internal EA mentor programs.
We want to keep our internal recruitment processes transparent and fair, so when we are allocating leaders for new projects we go through the same process as when we hire new candidates - giving everyone in the studio the opportunity to apply. Once the application process is over we make sure we can coach and help those who were not chosen, so they can get a clear development plan for their future.
Our studio culture and team dynamic are built on Collaboration, Inspiration through fun, and an Inclusive Culture. And we want to make sure we honor that through everything we do.
Strengthening Our Communities
We offer a network of like minded people across all of Electronic Arts via our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), brought together by the passion for making our studios a better place through diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our ERGs operate on a local and global scale, offering support to our talent, promoting diversity across our organization, and strive for an inclusive workplace.
Through our ERGs we can offer our team members:
Strong allyship: greater connection and belonging through mentorship and coaching, informative Fika (coffee break) series, and gaming clubs.
Partnership with external organizations: investing in networking opportunities and supporting community outreach and volunteer opportunities that serve women's causes (such as a game jam session for young game developers).
Career development: building leadership capabilities/training programs such as speaker series, career development sessions, and mentorship program.
At DICE we have three active groups onsite; Women’s Ultimate Team (WUT), Black EA Team (BEAT!), and PRIDE. Across Electronic Arts there is also opportunity to connect with other global ERGs and networks via virtual hangouts and other communication.
Partnerships
We want to share the joy of game development with as many as we can - inspiring the next generation of game developers. To do this, we need to make sure that everyone knows that there is a space for them in this fantastic industry, no matter what your background is or where you come from.
Through the years we have had the chance to partner with different organizations in order to help grow this industry, and we hope to continue some of these fantastic collaborations even further!
We Are Battlefield Studios
Together with our Battlefield Studios partners Criterion, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios we are building a network of talented developers across the globe that each brings their area of expertise and opportunities for us to learn from.
We have found ways to collaborate and communicate across time zones, and are always working on optimizing how we develop together so that we can keep a work-life-balance across all our teams.
All this sounds interesting? Then start your journey at DICE here!