Game dev under fire for mandatory \u201cSauna sessions\u201d with staff Spectrum Studios creative director Jacek Piorkowski has caused controversy in the build-up to the developer\u2019s new game by allegedly requiring employees to have naked sauna sessions. The situation was highlighted by Patryk Suchy, Lead Recruiter at 8bit, who made a post on LinkedIn calling out the requirement. In the post he says, \u201cThis dude, a creative director, requires NAKED SAUNA SESSIONS as a part of work in his studio.\u201d The post contains screenshots of Piorkowski posting on LinkedIn, responding to a developer who he\u2019d spoken to about the job (these comments have since been edited). Aleksandra Wolna, a narrative designer and writer responds on LinkedIn to Piorkowski potentially offering work, saying: \u201cWe already exchanged a few messages in the comments.\u201d \u201cFrom what you said, you consider naked sauna sessions part of the work responsibilities in your studio. I told you that was a dealbreaker.\u201d Piorkowski went on to say: \u201cYou had a lot of time to prove me wrong. To write scene in sauna without being in sauna\u2026 Instead, we are wasting time on social media.\u201d He continued: \u201cMy narrative girls had to go to sauna with me to came up [sic] with amazing script for proof of concept\u201d \u201cI absolutely adore the fact that they could use their sauna experience to write awesome scenes\u201d The game that\u2019s being worked on, is highlighted in an ad posting looking for an Art Director on komputerswiat.pl (as pointed out by a user on X) explains the sauna connection. It reads: \u201cSpectrum Studio is working on a new groundbreaking game: mix of Life is Strange (Narrative), Final Fantasy (story, characters), Heart of Darkness (adventure levels with dog), The Turyst (exploration and questing) and THPS2 (tricks and specials).\u201d The \u201cMain character will be a saunamaster and will be in charge of performing in various saunas (smells, music, choreography, everything)\u201d The ad also specifies that attending sauna sessions is \u201cnot negotiable\u201d because the \u201centire team needs to understand the product\u201d Piorkowski went on to say, \u201cWe\u2019re doing a game about Sauna Sessions. I don\u2019t want to waste my time to explain what\u2019s the difference between Ruska Bania or Dry Sauna. You have to feel it.\u201d He then offered to \u201ceven organize female only event\u201d. Piorkowski also said in another post: \u201cIf you knew anything about it, wetness level inside Bania or Steam one is around 90%. So, towel is extremely wet after few seconds. So, you can still do it, but it may result with fungal infection.\u201d \u201cYou should be naked in Bania or Steam and with or without towel in dry one\u201d Wolna expressed thanks for the support from other developers who called out Piorkowski\u2019s offer, in what is a truly bizarre situation. Dexerto has reached out to Spectrum Studios for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Game dev under fire for mandatory \u201cSauna sessions\u201d with staff Spectrum Studios creative director Jacek Piorkowski has caused controversy in the build-up to the developer\u2019s new game by allegedly requiring employees to have naked sauna sessions. The situation was highlighted by Patryk Suchy, Lead Recruiter at 8bit, who made a post on LinkedIn calling out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}