Fraktured Games Recruiting - Many Positions Available
Who are we?
Fraktured Games is comprised of the UDK Learning University Game Development Team.
Story of Desperate Times: You are one of the few surviving members of a city that is caught in an endless time warp. With your townsman, you try your best to defend against the onslaught of the relentless hordes of enemies trying to kill you. Using whatever the time shift gives you, you defend the outpost until your last dying breath.
Core Gameplay: The players are the defenders of their city. They will have to fight off hordes of incoming enemies. The players will need to defend against 20 waves of enemies to successfully save their city. Each city has a protective wall and buildable defense towers that will prevent the enemies from entering the city until they break down the gate. Once the horde breaks down the gate, hundreds of enemies will storm the city and start attacking the players. Enemies will be attracted to the defense towers, the time crystal shard, and the players. The players will have a short time before the horde reaches the gate to choose to build a tower or attempt to find random upgrades for their character. Each city will have a start with 2 tower build areas, and during the last stand the character will be able to place an emergency tower near the crystal shard.
Key Features:
- Quick & Familiar FPS Game Play
- PC Platform
- High Quality Models and Textures
- High Quality Sound effects and
- Professional Music Score
- Multiplayer Co-op play for up to 4 players.
- Customize Characters
- Saved stats
- Made with UDK for UDK developers and players.
Some Models:
All of our current progress can be seen through the Fraktured Games website
What are we looking for?
- Character Animators x2
Technical Requirements
- 2 years experience with one or more 3D modeling & animation programs such as: 3DSMax or Maya.
- 1 year experience with rigging, skinning, animating a character realistically/naturally.
- 6 months experience with AnimTrees in UDK.
- Proven understanding of the character development process.
- College/University education in 3D animation or game design.
- Familiar with object, word, parent, and local space coordinates and how it effects animation.
- Xbox Kinect and a fast laptop for motion capture.
- Work with Character Modelers to create needed character animations
- Work with vendors to supplement animations during crunch time.
- Will report art assets to the 3D Art lead for approval.
- Should be able to deliver 1 or more character revisions per week.
. - Character Modelers x1
Technical Requirements
- 2 years experience with one or more 3D modeling & animation programs such as: 3DSMax, Maya, or Z-brush.
- 2 years experience with Adobe Photoshop
- Thorough understanding of the full character production pipeline, including concepting, sculpting, blockouts/retopo, game model, UV, material creation, rigging and skinning
- Must understand character rigging and weighing and building game res meshes for animation
- 6 months experience with importing character assets into UDK.
- College/University education in 3D animation or game design.
- Familiar with object, word, parent, and local space coordinates and how it effects animation.
- Work with concept artists to create a 3D Characters.
- Must pay attention to detail.
- Will report art assets to the 3D Art lead for approval.
- Should be able to deliver 1 or more character revisions per week.
- Concept Artist x5
Technical Requirements
- Strong Artistic Style
- Excellent drawing skills in both traditional and digital formats
- Excellent grasp of environment design and competent understanding of character design.
- Ability to scan and upload hand drawn artwork
Bonus Skills/Experience- Formal Art Education
- Familiarity with Photoshop, UDK, and 3DS Max.
Responsibilities- Communicate with 3D Art team to create needed concepts art.
- Communicate with Level Design team to create needed concept art.
- Communicate with Scaleform specialist to create menu and UI designs.
- Communicate with leadership to create box art/marketing concept art.
- Assist in the creation of moodboards for specific areas / characters / props of the game.
- Will report art assets to the said leads for approval.
- Should be able to deliver 4 or more concept art pieces per week.
- Prop/Weapon/Environmental Animators x4
Technical Requirements
- 1 year experience with one or more 3D modeling & animation programs such as: 3DSMax or Maya.
- 6 months of experience creating basic animations for environment props and weapons.
- 6 months experience with AnimTrees in UDK.
- 3 months experience with weapon reload, idle, and firing animations.
- Experience with importing animations into UDK using ActorX.
Bonus Skills/Experience- College/University education in 3D animation or game design.
- Familiar with object, word, parent, and local space coordinates and how it effects animation
Responsibilities- Communicate with Level Design and Modelers to create needed environmental/prop/weapon animations.
- Will report art assets to the 3D Art lead for approval.
- Should be able to deliver 3 revisions of animation assets revisions per week.
- Scaleform/Flash Specialist x1
Technical Requirements
- 1+ years of game development experience (UDK Preferred)
- 1+years experience with scripting languages like Flash/Actionscript and working with 2d/3d UI frameworks.
- 6 months experience designing flow charts / UI layouts.
- 1 year experience with Photoshop
- 6 months experience with Scaleform.
- 6 months experience with UnrealScript.
Bonus Skills/Experience- College/University education in computer science, game design or 2d web design
Responsibilities- Communicate with Level Design and 3D Art lead to best translate the style and feel to matching the Menu system and HUD (GUI).
- Communicate with texture artists to facilitate needed textures.
- Communicate with 3D art team to facilitate needed 3D art.
- Communicate with the Uscript Team to facilitate any additional code not easily accessible via the scalreform tools.
- Will report art assets to the Uscript and GM approval.
- Should be able to deliver 3 menu and/or HUD revisions per week.
- Sound Designer x1
Technical Requirements
- 1 year experience as an Audio/Sound Designer for film or video games.
- Strong understanding in creating, designing, and mixing sound FX.
- Ability to deliver stems upon request.
- Strong understanding including vocal recording and mixing.
- Strong understanding of the game development process.
- 6 months experience of UDK audio integration / implementation to create a virtual sound scape.
- Large Sound Library to build sfx from during crunch time.
- Must use a professional DAW system. (Audacity or Sound Forge by itself is not a professional DAW)
Bonus Skills/Experience- Formal Education in Audio Engineering/Recording, Music Composition, or Musical performance.
- Uses Pro Tools 8 or above.
Responsibilities- Communicate with 3D art lead facilitate the creation sound fx for immediate props and environmental models.
- Communicate with Level design team to facilitate the creation of sound fx for atmos/ambient sounds and planning of sound placement as processing.
- Communicate with composer to provide feedback and provide sound fx to sweeten composition depending on level design needs.
- Will report sound assets to lead sound designer.
- Should be able to deliver 6 sound fx per week.
- Texture Artist x3
Technical Requirements
- Strong understanding of the general art asset creation pipeline for 3D games.
- 2 years experience with Photoshop.
- 6 months experience with importing art assets into UDK.
- 6 months experience creating high quality texture content for games.
Bonus Skills/Experience- Formal Art Education
- Familiarity with 3DS Max and other 3D modeling programs.
Responsibilities- Communicate with Level Design and 3D Art lead to best translate the style and feel to matching textures for models and 3D artwork.
- Communicate with modeling team to create textures for needed assets first.
- Will report art assets to the 3D Art lead for approval.
- Should be able to deliver 6 texture assets per week.
- Level Designers x1
Technical Requirements
- 1 year experience creating maps/levels inside UDK.
- 6 months experience with UDK Kismet 6 months experience with UDK Matinee
- Strong understanding of game/map flow for multiplayer FPS style games.
- 6 months experience white boxing a level/map
- Ability to hand draw a top-down map and other concept views of the map.
- Ability to translate mood boards, character, and art assets, and sounds into a believable map/level.
- Strong understanding of lighting and level optimization.
- Very strong organizational experience with UPK assets.
Bonus Skills/Experience- Experience with designing layouts for Defense style games.
- College/University education in game design.
- Familiarity with implementing sounds into UDK to create a virtual sound scape.
Responsibilities- Communicate with leadership to ensure vision of game is maintained.
- Communicate with all support teams in regards to level design team needs.
- Update GDD as needs update/change.
- Communicate with Uscript teams for any scripting functionality that cannot be easily done within Kismet.
- Should be able to deliver 2 level revisions per week.
Application Process - Each applicant will have a 3 step application:
- Application (Can you follow directions / introduction / information / questionnaire)
- Review of Demo Reel / Portfolio (what have you done and who trusts you)
- Speaking with Sean (viptampa) via Phone/Skype/TeamSpeak. (Does your personality fit in with our leadership)
If during any of those steps we feel that it's not a good fit for both the applicant and our dev team, we'll let the applicant know right away to ensure no misunderstandings. If after those 3 steps we feel you're appropriate for the role, we'll bring you on board and have you start right away!
Application URL - Click here for the application form
All Applicant Requirements
- Fluent reading, writing, and listening in English. Applicants must be an effective communicator with leadership who that only understands English.
- Must be a team player and be able to work in a team environment.
- Must treat all students and game dev team members with respect.
- Must use project management tools provided.
- Must be able use common tools, such as DropBox, SVN, and FTP. (If no experience with SVN, must be willing to learn how to use TortoiseSVN)
- Must be able to use TeamSpeak.
- Passion for the game industry
- Desire to learn or currently understands of the game development process.
- Strong self-starter. Must be able to take action and break down progress barriers.
Website and Contact:
Official Site: Fraktured Games
Email: sean@udklearning.com
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/fraktured
Fraktured Games Forums: http://udklearning.com/forumdisplay.php?46-Fraktured-Games-Positions
These positions are for the Desperate Times Demo. If there is enough demand for the demo then we will create the full game and then it becomes a Royalty position.
SVN Info
urls =
svn://udklearning.com/dtd-ref (reference documentation) <-- GDD
svn://udklearning.com/dtd-trunk/code (uscript & code and folder structure)
svn://udklearning.com/dtd-trunk/upkudk (assembled UPKs and UDKs and folder structure)
user: guest
pass: spiffy1470
I recommend installing EasySVN for easy dropbox like updating.
http://svn-ref.assembla.com/easysvn.html (Windows only)