We love games.

We were the original team behind Words With Friends and the With Friends series, but before that we had our hand in Age of Empires, Halo Wars and Starcraft, to name a few. We’re also voracious consumers of all sorts of games, from hardcore PC games to board games and everything in between.

We’re redefining gaming for the next generation.

We are inspired by the promise of disruptive technologies like virtual reality and are actively developing games that take full advantage of these new mediums. We are building worlds that will come alive for our players in ways that were previously only possible in dreams.

We go against the grain where it counts.

We actively work against crunch. We highly value work-life balance and encourage our staff to have a life outside the studio. We also offer top pay and industry leading benefits, including zero out-of-pocket insurance plan, a 401k, and paid continuing education.

Remote Senior Technical Artist

We’re looking for a Remote Senior Technical Artist to join our company and work on our incredibly exciting, and fully funded, game in Unreal.

Responsibilities:
As a Senior Technical Artist that can you push the visual quality and performance of our new AAA game? Do you have expertise in graphical solutions in a variety of areas in the Unreal Engine- lighting, asset and pipeline optimization, ability to create visual effects, and shader generation? If so, you could be responsible for providing support, guidance, problem solving, and creating innovative solutions for our asset creation pipeline both internally and externally.

• • Brainstorm, R&D, and help implement multiple project pipelines and toolsets.
  • Diagnose problems related to asset and level creation and support the art and design teams.
  • Lighting
  • Shaders
  • VFX Creation
  • Visual scripting
  • Evaluate and improve game assets
  • Build and maintain node-based shaders in Unreal.
  • Work closely with artists and engineers to pinpoint and fix game performance and memory usage issues.
  • Support in content creation when needed.

Qualifications:

• • Solid knowledge of current and next-gen art techniques, and fundamental art principles.
  • Solid experience with the asset creation pipeline for Unreal with the knowhow and knowledge to keep graphics within performance targets.
  • Self-motivated, structured, proactive, and detailed oriented.
  • Relentless drive to find solutions and help the team move forward.

Bonus skills:

• • Knowledge and experience with common scripting languages like Python and C#.
  • Experience writing shaders.
  • Experience with procedural content creation software like Houdini and Substance Suite.

Remote Senior Technical Animator

We’re looking for a Remote Senior Technical Animator to join our company, work on our incredibly exciting, and fully funded, game in Unreal.

Responsibilities:
As a Senior Technical Animator, you’ll work closely with animators, engineers, and designers. This critical role focuses on developing and improving animation features in engine, implementing assets, and optimizing current animation systems, tools, and practices. Do you have expertise creating and maintaining animation blueprints, blendspaces, and montages within Unreal? Have you specialized in creating rigs for a variety of creatures and characters to be used in an Unreal game. If so, you could be responsible for providing support, guidance, problem solving, and creating innovative solutions for our animation creation pipeline both internally and externally.

• • Ability to create animation trees in Unreal for a variety of characters and creatures that range in levels of complexity.
  • Support and implement animation content, and fine tune parameters for gameplay animation
  • Work directly with Programming, Animation, and Design to prototype and deliver excellent combat, character locomotion and movement mechanics, facial animation, and other new game features to deliver extremely polished gameplay and animation.
  • Help to determine risk/reward throughout the process
  • Help document design features and parameters, brainstorming all avenues for the creation of animation content
  • Investigate, identify, and improve pipeline, optimize workflows and tools, setting best practices/standards streamlining the animation process
  • Work with the Studio Art Director during the concept phase to advise on rig creation, and animation set for a variety of characters and creatures.
  • Troubleshoot asset and editor problems for the Animation and other development teams
  • Document systems and feature functionality for use by the teams and future employees
  • Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals
  • Support in content creation when needed.

Qualifications:

• • Solid knowledge of current and next-gen art techniques, and fundamental animation principles.
  • Solid experience with the animation creation pipeline From Maya to Unreal with the knowledge to help build and maintain animation systems
  • Self-motivated, structured, proactive, and detailed oriented.
  • Relentless drive to find solutions and help the team move forward.

Bonus skills:

• • Enthusiastic gamer with a passion for making great games and animations
  • Experience with multiple 3D packages
  • Experience with cinematics and facial animation
  • Ability to create a variety of rigs in Maya that can be optimized for real-time gameplay.
  • Experience working with procedural/physically-altered animation techniques

Producer

Are you a skilled Producer interested in building a true next-generation, AAA game? We are a team of passionate game creators who have, together, shipped some of the world’s most popular PC, console, and mobile/cross-platform games. We have also consistently focused on cutting-edge technology and emerging platforms. We fully embrace and encourage remote work plus love these challenging frontiers where video games are evolving and becoming more accessible, more inclusive, and more fun. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Producer you will support the Sr Producer in managing the development of a game project from concept to release. This will involve leading assigned areas to execute game vision, owning day-to-day operations of assigned areas, maintaining alignment with the Sr Producer, other producers and team members, and possibly managing Associate Producers.

What will you do?

• • Work closely with your team and the Producer to balance creative vision with time, budget, and resources.
  • Work with the team, Game Director, and Producer to ensure alignment and development aligns with the game vision
  • Foster a healthy team and culture of success
  • Fosters effective communication and information flow between disciplines / areas
  • Align with the the team and the Producer to drive work to completion
  • Utilize, Manage, and Maintain project management & communication tools
  • Sustains project structure, processes, and production tools in area
  • Serves as backup contact for internal divisions (Marketing, Branding, Community, QA, etc.) and stakeholders (executive team) in specified area(s)
  • Serves as a backup contact for external stakeholders (publisher, marketing partners, etc.) in specified area(s)

What will help you be successful in this role?

• • You must love games!
  • A minimum 2+ years experience working in a production role in the game industry.
  • Ability to be flexible and creatively solve a variety of challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Being a self-starter who is able to identify and solve problems.
  • Enjoys supporting teams to success on the cutting edge of technology
  • Attention to detail, strong organizational skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Appetite to learn new approaches in leadership, and project management
  • Actively seeks out criticism and feedback as often as possible to further the iterative process. Encourages all team members to do the same.

Associate Producer

Are you an associate producer excited to contribute to the development of a cutting edge, next-generation, AAA game? Are you interested in applying the solid production skills you have while expanding and learning more?

We are a team of passionate game creators who have, together, shipped some of the world’s most popular PC, console, and mobile/cross-platform games. We have also consistently focused on cutting-edge technology and emerging platforms. We love these challenging frontiers where video games are evolving and becoming more accessible, more inclusive, and more fun. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

In this role, you will lead and support a subset of team members in specified area(s) to execute the game vision, own day-to-day operations for that area, and maintain alignment with the Producer and game vision.

What will you do?

• • Work closely with your team and the Producer to balance creative vision with time, budget, and resources.
  • Work with the team, Game Director, and Producer to ensure alignment and development aligns with the game vision
  • Foster a healthy team and culture of success
  • Fosters effective communication and information flow between disciplines / areas
  • Align with the the team and the Producer to drive work to completion
  • Utilize, Manage, and Maintain project management & communication tools
  • Sustains project structure, processes, and production tools in area
  • Serves as backup contact for internal divisions (Marketing, Branding, Community, QA, etc.) and stakeholders (executive team) in specified area(s)
  • Serves as a backup contact for external stakeholders (publisher, marketing partners, etc.) in specified area(s)

What will help you be successful in this role?

• • You must love games!
  • A minimum 2+ years experience working in a production role in the game industry.
  • Ability to be flexible and creatively solve a variety of challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Being a self-starter who is able to identify and solve problems.
  • Enjoys supporting teams to success on the cutting edge of technology
  • Attention to detail, strong organizational skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Appetite to learn new approaches in leadership, and project management
  • Actively seeks out criticism and feedback as often as possible to further the iterative process. Encourages all team members to do the same.