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 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!

We’re looking for an engineer who knows what great gameplay looks, sounds, and feels like. Someone who understands the programmatic representations of great game feel and who can turn a complex description of a user’s experience into simple inputs on a controller. Someone who can iterate alongside other developers, tweaking and tuning until you get it just right. You know instinctively how much input lag is too sticky or too slippery, and you’ve got the know-how to put a pin in the center of the spectrum. You’re a tinkerer, a knob-turner, a button-pusher and a lever-puller. You know that the moment a game world comes to life is when a player can competently and confidently stride through it. You have the skills, both to tell a story through code alone and to guide the player to pen their own. Your insights and talents will help our animators, designers, and writers craft an experience that harmonizes across all its axes.

Responsibilities Include:

• Developing gameplay systems according to designer specifications.
• Working with a variety of other disciplines to fine-tune gameplay.
• Exploring game design ideas through prototypes and toys.
• Iterating, iterating, and iterating some more on gameplay mechanics.
• Creating new gameplay code, as well as maintaining the older systems.

Required Skills:

• Can work with designers and animators to create features that complement tight mechanics and high-fidelity animations.
• Can help create systems with seamless and fluid game feel.
• Has a strong interest in and curiosity for game design.
• Can receive, internalize, and implement gameplay feedback.
• Can identify points of friction in gameplay and resolve them quickly.
• Extensive knowledge of controller interfaces across multiple platforms.
• Can write efficient low-level C++ code, with an eye for optimization and performance.
• Has written gameplay code on shipped games.
• Is a self-motivated and proactive problem-solver. 
• Loves working with others.

Super Powers:

• You know the Unreal Engine: forward, backward, upside-down and inside-out.

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 who’s an expert in console programming. Someone who knows from experience what the certification requirements are for various consoles and how to bring an Unreal project in line with them. Someone who can build the bridge between the goal we want to reach and the product that has to ship, with architecture that brings harmony between the game and the machine it runs on. You love all the principles and techniques that studios use to boost game performance. You’re a mediator, mixing these cutting-edge techniques and well-known strategies to make an ideal solution of console optimization. Your understanding and communication of each platform’s needs will be instrumental in taking our games across the finish line.

Responsibilities Include:

• Implementing a variety of console-specific SDKs.
• Achieving certification on current generation consoles.
• Extensively modifying off-the-shelf engines, such as UE4.
• Assisting other disciplines in optimizing their work for consoles.
• Working within multi-threaded coding environments.

Required Skills:

• Is willing and able to modify, extend, and optimize sophisticated code bases.
• Can architect, implement, and maintain a variety of complex core engine systems.
• Can remain up to date with modern industry innovations and apply them internally.
• Can work with multiple modern graphics APIs and shading languages.
• Has a comprehensive understanding of various CPU and GPU architectures.
• Can deploy profiling tools and interpret their results for other disciplines.
• Can write low level C++ code with an eye for optimization and performance.
• Has written console code on shipped games.
• Is a self-motivated and proactive problem-solver. 
• Loves working with others.

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!

Our ideal candidate has experience grasping the game’s vision, conceptualizing ideas that fit the tone and experience, prototyping and communicating their findings, and shipping completed features on a multi-discipline, professional team. They are confident in working with other departments to get the assets and technology needed to implement designs, and have an understanding and respect for how it will impact others. They have a strong sense of moment-to-moment gameplay, and imagination for how mechanics can scale or change over the course of the game. They work in-engine to realize their ideas. They enjoy the prototyping phase of a project, but have the experience and discipline to move a prototype into a shippable feature. They have the ability to juggle multiple tasks, prioritize well and make suggestions on process.

• Worked on and shipped minimally 2-4 games, from conceptualization to completion.
• Can effectively prototype action/adventure mechanics in blueprints/C++.
• Experienced with moment-to-moment gameplay design.
• Can articulate needs for tools & support from programming.
• Is able to prioritize effectively and communicate priorities to teammates. 
• Can utilize and/or create all manner of temporary assets, ex. Sound effects, animation, VFX.
• Has a grasp of how to grow and complicate mechanics for the player over the course of the game.
• Understands the impact of design choices on other departments and can determine constraints of their own systems.

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

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.

Thanks for your interest!