Management and Team
Ben Hutchison directs the company as well as leading the game design and development of Heroes of Arcadia. Playscape Games was founded in 2005 by Ben Hutchison and Louise Lovell.
Prior to founding Playscape Games, Ben Hutchison worked as a Senior Developer at Goldman Sachs JB Were on their institutional trading systems. Previously at Sensis, Ben implemented key business-rule components supplying data to one of Australia's busiest websites, Sensis' YellowPages.com.au. In the U.K Ben worked for software vendor IntaMission to bring their high-performance JavaSpace engine to market. He has also contributed to mobile news and info service products at Ericsson, to Melbourne IT's domain name registry system, and to a sophisticated stock-market prediction system for Intelligenesis Corp of New York.
A Melbourne-based team has been working with the founders towards the development of episode one, including 2 artists, a music & effects composer, and a level designer.