JOB TYPE:
Full-time
Want
to work on a super high-profile title? Exercise your
creativity, turn gaming on its head, and make games for gamers
and non-gamers alike? Come work at Page 44 Studios, located in
San
Francisco, two blocks from BART! Page
44 provides the magic combination of genuinely rewarding,
collaborative work, proper work/life balance, and stability in
an uncertain world. For over 11 years, Page 44 has been
creating tons of high profile games for the best publishers.
We are currently working on multiple mass-market projects that
will reach the living rooms of your family and friends. Come
check us out!
Make a difference
on your next project and come join us at Page 44 Studios. We
are working on multiple extremely high profile projects that
are soon to be announced and need great teammates with good
heads on their shoulders to help us make great
products.
We’ve been around for a while now (since
1998) so we know how to build a fantastic product; we just
need more people to help us do it. Our client list includes
Disney, Activision, Electronic Arts, Sony, HP, and Microsoft,
and our published titles include: Madden ’10 iPhone, Hannah
Montana: Rock Out the Show for PSP, High School Musical 3:
Dance! for Xbox 360, Wii, PC and PS2, Tony Hawk’s Proving
Ground for Wii and PS2, Tony Hawk’s Project 8, Godfather: Mob
Wars, Gretzky NHL 2005 & 2006, the EA Sports Big hit
"Freekstyle", and EA Sports' NHL 2001 and SuperCross
2001.
We offer a great, flexible and relaxed work
environment (where the goal is always to do what we can to
eliminate crunch times), competitive salaries, and solid
benefits. Our programmer teams are collegial and very much a
working collective.
We are located in the warm part of
San
Francisco (SOMA area) and are purposely
located a few blocks (i.e., super easy walking distance) from
the FERRY, BART and MUNI lines.
Oh yeah, we are an
equal opportunity employer.
Description:
Page 44 is
currently looking for a highly talented Gameplay Engineer to
innovate and create on a high profile title. You should be
able to handle creating gameplay experiences using our
proprietary technologies; this involves:
-
Code a game in
C++
-
Create GUI’s and
HUDs with the assistance of artists
-
Help specify and
design art and animation, as well as integrate those assets
into living, breathing games
-
Guiding design and
production on how to make a game great
If you are hands-on
gameplay programmer that can hit the ground running, e-mail
your resume to us ASAP to:
programmer at page44 dot com with
Gameplay Programmer in the subject line.
Requirements:
·
Proven C/C++/C#
skills and at least 3 years of experience with game
development
·
MANDATORY: At least
1 year working on a current generation
console
·
Exemplary
communication skills, oral and written
·
Strong work
ethic
·
BS/MS in Computer
Science or equivalent
Desirable
Skills:
·
Wiimote control
experience
·
Xbox 360, PS3, Wii,
PS2, PSP, and/or DirectX
experience
·
Working knowledge
of character animation techniques
·
Proponent of good
software practices
·
Experience with
networked games
·
Capable of writing
or contributing to a highly optimized console rendering system
from top to bottom.
·
Experience with
programmable graphics hardware (i.e. writing
shaders)
·
Worked extensively
on a game engine or renderer
·
Experience porting
to new hardware
·
Experience making
tools for artists, programmers, and
production
·
Knowledge of rigid
body systems, articulated physics, collision
detection
·
Experience managing
a team, scheduling, and/or project
management
·
Strong knowledge of
Python and GUI programming
·
Experience with
Maya API programming
Contact:
Email your resume
to programmer at page44 dot com with Gameplay Programmer in
the subject.
