Environment artists are integral in sculpting the moment-to-moment experience, creating moods with shape, color, texture, and light, and they can generate story without speaking a word. They can lead the player somewhere exciting, or infer the dangers of what lies ahead. And they can do all of this while keeping the game running in framerate, within memory budgets, and still able to create amazing art.

We’re looking for an Environment Artist that’s ready to grow! Maybe you’ve been creating background art, know all the new techniques and software that help create, worked with optimization tools, but you want to challenge yourself to do more. You’ve worked with QA and used playtest data to make a more solid experience. What is more? Where do you take your skills? What do you want to do with your talents?

We’re looking for someone to set up our background art pipeline as well as create and implement environment art for a uniquely-stylized game. Being that we’re a smaller team the position will require you to embrace challenges, know how to get the ‘bang for your buck,’ and love helping others. You’ll need to be a self-starter, enjoy problem solving, have a good eye for style and shape, and understand what emotions or design priorities the game is trying to get across at any given moment. We can help you with some of that, but we’re relying on you to bring your passion and skills too.

Practically speaking, you’ll be responsible for texturing, shading, modeling and lighting a scene, and you will work closely with the rendering team to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to support a functioning background production pipeline. You’ll also be responsible for balancing our technical engine limitations with the demands of our aesthetic targets, and communicate those findings and lessons to the rest of the team.

You will be working closely with pretty much everyone (did I mention we’re not very big?)! 

Required Skills:

• Excellent modeler, texture/shader artist, and lighting artist.
• Understands occlusion and collision systems, and AI Navigation tech.
• Understands how to translate and work within design metrics and design limitations into great art and experiences.
• Has a good eye for composition. Knows when and where to add detail, shapes, color, and light to get the best out of our limited resources.
• Understands engine limitations and how to work within those constraints. Has a firm understanding of debugging tools.
• Absolutely loves the player and wants them to feel something when they move through your creations.
• A willingness (even a desire) to iterate and collaborate to find what works best for the team and our aesthetic goals.
• Problem solver, self starter, and proactive. Positive attitude. Good communicator, No ego. Pretty much a perfect person. ;)
• Understands Design’s needs and is willing to compromise when the time comes.
• Up to speed on all the new whiz-bang tech and software.

Super Powers:

• You live and breathe Unreal.
• You can write your own tools.

Super Double Bonus Powers:

• You have good design instincts or have experience with layout design (examples will be requested).

Just a heads up - as part of the interview process, we may ask you to take a test to show us your skills and knowledge.

Benefits:

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!

We are looking for someone to create our skeletons and rigs for characters and props used throughout our game. Someone that thrives in a communicative and collaborative environment to create the most efficient process to bring our characters to life and iterate to find what works and looks best for the game and the people using your work. Your experience will be essential when creating a scalable, game-shipping pipeline. This role will require someone that creates consistent and fast rigs. Quick iteration is a must. Someone that will be conscious of the scope and size of the team and will adjust accordingly. A good eye and the ability to prioritize will be essential.

Responsibilities Include:

• Create skeletons and rigs for the character models and props making sure the deformations, hierarchy, pivot points, joint orientations are consistent and correct. This will include non-human characters and props; basically anything that needs a skeletal mesh. 
• Design a robust character pipeline:
  - Sharing skeletons.
  - Modular characters.
  - Retargeting across different skeletons.
  - Batch process of animations for skeleton changes.
  - Tools for animators to interact with the rigs.
• Design and maintain an efficient character pipeline within unreal.
  Anything related to skeletal meshes, cloth, dynamics, procedural animation.
  Anything else that the character may require.
• Collaborate with all members of the team to make sure that the process to implement characters in the game is as efficient and iterative as possible.

Required Skills:

• Experience developing rigs for games.
• Excellent rigging skills.
• Knowledge of 
  - Maya
  - Unreal
  - Tool Writing (Python preferred)
• Creative and efficient problem solving.
• Team player with strong communication skills.
• Proactivity and can-do attitude.
• Creative and efficient problem solving.

Super Powers:

• You have modeling skills.
• You know C++.
• You have extensive knowledge of physics and procedural animation.

How To Apply:

Please submit a resume and a reel that contains examples of rigging and their implementation in a game engine (Unreal is a plus).

As part of the interview process, we may ask you to take a test to show us your skills and knowledge.

Benefits:

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!

Are VFX more than just particles to you? How much do you consider the player, story and mood when you create your VFX? How can VFX integrate with gameplay design to bring a new experience to the player? Do you love the technical challenge of creating new and interesting VFX in 3D, that still work in framerate and memory? Do you wonder what more we could be doing with VFX in games? What are we missing about the potential of VFX in the interactive medium?

VFX will play a key role in our game’s unique aesthetic. As a small-ish team, you’ll pretty much be owning and driving the entire VFX pipeline and VFX creation for a while. So efficiency, problem-solving, a willingness to compromise, and a firm understanding of technical limitations and work-arounds will be essential tools in your toolbelt. We’re a fully 3D game experience. You’ll be collaborating with concept artists to define and integrate our VFX with the art style, work closely with design, and communicate a clear direction, workflow and project goals to other VFX artists and the team.

Responsibilities Include:

• Setting up, guiding, communicating, and maintaining a 3D VFX pipeline and technical needs across the project and departments.
• Creating unique shaders and materials.
• Technically proficient and can translate technical jargon to layman’s terms - and vice versa.
• Authoring particle systems and features that are easily accessible and usable by other team members outside of the VFX department. 
• Mentoring and guiding other VFX artists.
• Having fun making VFX!

Super Powers:

• You can hand animate 2D FX.
• You can write code and create your own shaders.
• You are familiar with Unreal or have written shaders in Unity.
• You can create your own tools.

Just a heads up - as part of the interview process, we may ask you to take a test to show us your skills and knowledge.

Benefits: 

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!

We’re looking for someone who can think both macro and micro - about story and characters, moment-to-moment gameplay, as well as system and gameplay design. Someone who loves the player and wants to take them on a journey. Who loves our medium, and wants to challenge the possibilities (and ship a game!). Who enjoys spec’ing out ideas and designs, following through with their implementation, and seeing these ideas come to life.

We’re looking for someone who’s thinking about the intersection between gameplay and story - and understands the necessity to make a decision in order to move production forward. Someone who wants to create mechanics and set-ups that let the players play and still create rich, emotional experiences. 

Practically speaking - on one day you may be asked to work on the gameplay side - which could be prototyping a layout, spec’ing out a feature or mechanic, working with the animators to get the “feel” right, working with a gameplay programmer to implement a new object, etc. On another day you may be asked to take a step back and work on pacing and story - such as world-building, environmental storytelling, player/macro/plot story goals, character arcs, etc. And then there will be days where you alone will decide what's best to work on - we have a lot of those days too.

Proactivity is going to be key in this role. You’ll need to be a self-starter that wants to understand the vision of the project quickly and help problem-solve and prioritize to help us meet our goals.

Required Skills:

• Pushing the narrative into the gameplay space using all the design tools at your disposal. 
• Challenging yourself to get emotional moments using gameplay verbs.
• Helping define, communicate and implement gameplay verbs, interactions, and objects. 
• Communicating and collaborating a design vision across all disciplines.
• High level thinker. Can juggle tasks and prioritize well.
• Enjoys the explorative process of designing a game. Can hold a vision and uncertainty at the same time.
• Loves playtesting. Loves playtest data. Understands what iteration looks and feels like in action.
• Can set their own priorities. Is a self-starter. Thrives in open environments.

Requirements:

• Shipped some games.
• Knows all the software. Expert at Unreal is a bonus.
• Can script using either or both Unreal’s blueprints or C++.
• Has an idea of what “player-driven” means, and wants to fulfill that notion.
• Great communicator. Open minded. Believes we make better things when we include others in our process.

Just a heads up - as part of the interview process, we may ask you to take a test to show us your skills and knowledge.

Benefits: 

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!

We’re looking for an engineer that gets excited by helping others. Who’s good with technical systems and believes that tools, infrastructure and a stable pipeline are the backbone of successful game development. A facilitator. A helper. A pipeline lover. A generalist programmer who enjoys wearing many hats on any given day, and gets a kick out of solving problems that help unblock the team. Who understands that quality is only achieved when infrastructure stability and pipeline efficiency is achieved.

On one day you may be asked to work on the game side - which could be writing gameplay code, debugging other people's code, looking into optimizations, implementing save/load systems, etc. On another day you may be asked to work on our pipelines - such as animation and art tools, build systems, a smoke-test setup, in-game debugging tools, etc. And then there will be days where you alone will decide what's best to work on - we have a lot of those days.

Required Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of perforce and cloud storage and backup systems.
• Can write good, clean, efficient code. :)
• Self-motivated, proactive, problem solver. Can identify tool, code and pipeline issues, and wants to
• Can recommend, set-up and maintain licensing software choices, agreements, and pipeline integration. 
• Has a familiarity or shipped games on multiple SKUs. 
• Has written development tools. 
• Has familiarity with development pipelines.
• Loves working with others. 

Benefits: 

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!

We’re looking for a gameplay animator that understands the constraints of gameplay animation and thrives in creating interactive experiences. Our game is exploring the intersection between story and gameplay and pushing interactivity, so we need someone that’s able to tackle the challenges that come with player input and is able to think in creative, nonstandard ways about animation; someone who is able to understand gameplay systems, gameplay design, and character creation, all while honing their animation skills. This role requires someone that is always thinking about the high-level goal we are trying to achieve as a team; someone that is willing to be part of a small team that is constantly evolving on how we tackle challenges in any area.

Responsibilities Include:

• Create animations for the different characters and implement them in Unreal.
• Communicate with Engineers to create new tools, nodes or systems for a particular feature.
• Prototyping, ideating, experimenting with how the characters move, behave, feel and look through Unreal Blueprint scripting.
• Collaborate with all members of the team to bring characters and their world alive.
• Creative problem solving on how to create the best animation systems within a small team.

Required Skills:

• Experience developing games; personal or student projects are acceptable.
• Excellent character animation skills including non-human characters.
• Knowledge of 
  - Maya and Unreal
  - Layering animation
  - Additive animation
  - Player systems: locomotion, traversal, etc.
  - AI characters: path finding, navigation, etc.
• Team player with strong communication skills.
• Proactivity and can-do attitude.
• Creative and efficient problem solving.

Super Powers:

• Maya/ Unreal Tool writing experience.
• Experienced with stylized animation.
• Unreal Procedural animation experience: Control rig, IK, Dynamics, etc. 
• Cinematography knowledge.
• Rigging and character pipeline experience.

How To Apply:

Please submit a resume and a reel that shows in-game footage as well as other animation content. Personal projects are acceptable.

As part of the interview process, we may ask you to take a test to show us your skills and knowledge.

Benefits: 

• Competitive Health, dental, vision & life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company contribution 
• Remote flexible work from home policies
• Unlimited PTO 
• Creative & collaborative environment

Thanks for your interest!