Art Director // Hardscore Games, Berlin
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Hardscore Games builds and publishes mobile games for real gamers! We released Star Admiral (www.staradmiral.com) on July 17th globally on iOS and are now building our second title (RTS Fantasy Setting).
Star Admiral is already played by over a hundred thousand players just one week after launch and you will be responsible to lead our art team and set the style of the new mobile gaming production.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibility is to oversee all aspects of the game visuals including a strong focus on mobile UX and UI game art, background and character creation and animation.
Contact Felix:
felix@hardscoregames.com
Visit the company website: Hardscore Games
Star Admiral is already played by over a hundred thousand players just one week after launch and you will be responsible to lead our art team and set the style of the new mobile gaming production.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibility is to oversee all aspects of the game visuals including a strong focus on mobile UX and UI game art, background and character creation and animation.
- Leading and motivating the art team to realize overall goals and deliver a visually stunning project on time
- Set the qualitative benchmark for content in the game
- Maintains the visual integrity throughout the entire project ensuring consistency and highest quality.
- Able to instruct artists in all fields
- Influences technology development to push the visual quality bar.
- Proactively ensures the style supports the target demographic and consumer expectations.
- Work with marketing to create high performing marketing assets
- You will work together with the respective product leads to create an outstanding overall game experience
- Academic degree in an art related field of study
- Has shipped at least one game as an Art Director / Art Lead demonstrating a high visual bar
- 5 years prior game industry experience in an art role
- Understanding of touch controls and mobile screen size optimized UI and UX
- Experienced in low poly game optimised modelling (Max or Maya)
- Experience in texturing
- Exeperience with particle effects
- Experience in managing teams of artists
- Uses time effectively
- Respected member of the global art community.
- Experience creating high performing marketing assets
- Have tremendous influence on games that are played by millions of hardcore (mobile) gamers (no candycrushing!)
- The opposite of the corporate career route: a lot of responsibility, freedom how to do things and lots of impact on the final result
- Be an integral member of a young company with roughly 15 team members
- Competitive compensation based on your experience level
- Work in Kreuzberg, the European Silicon Valley's new heart
- Work with serial entrepreneurs who've founded successful companies before
- Free drinks
Contact Felix:
felix@hardscoregames.com
Visit the company website: Hardscore Games