Astro Bot Dev Team Asobi Is Hiring For Its Next Project, Mentions ‘Fun Gameplay Mechanics’ In Job Listing

Team Asobi, the developer behind PS5’s critically acclaimed and award-winning Astro Bot, has started hiring for a new project, with the position of a 3D Environment Artist now open.

Spotted by Zuby_Tech on X, the job opening doesn’t give too much away, but it mentions “fun gameplay mechanics” and notes the candidate will be “responsible for creating playful and stunning looking environment art for our game.” Sounds like it could be a follow-up to Astro Bot, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating playful and stunning looking environment art for our game. Create advanced and fun gameplay mechanics around physics engine and related techniques. Create prototypes quickly and iterate fast to continuously improve them. Bring your own game design sense, creativity and humor to these interactions. Collaborate with system programmers, game designers, and artists to bring prototypes up to the production level.

Astro Bot was released for PS5 in September 2024, and you can read our review here. The game was a huge success for Sony, nabbing multiple Game of the Year gongs and receiving ample post-launch support; Hermen Hulst described it as one of PlayStation’s “most exciting recent successes,” and strongly hinted that we haven’t seen the last of the IP.

[Source – Zuby_Tech]