Digital Arrow - Environment 3D Artist Positions
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If youre looking for work that will challenge and inspire you, a job that will offer tremendous personal and professional growth, then Digital Arrow is the right place for you. We are always seeking experienced and talented individuals to expand our ranks. You will work with talented, passion driven, creative people, and together you will create cutting edge entertainment experiences. We are people who come to work every day with new ideas. We believe that creating a diverse workplace helps us attract the best talent and foster creativity.
Introduction and the About the Project
'Dilogus - Winds of War' is a third person, High Fantasy, RPG-action game that immerses players in the awe inspiring fantasy world of Dilogus, allowing them to experience it from multiple perspectives of six unique characters in both single player and co-operative multiplayer modes. Being a fantasy, pseudo-action RPG, we aim to immerse the player into a fantasy world, allowing them to play their characters in multiple ways. The open world features of the game fuel this option and makes sure the players have enough choices and places to explore.
While the games actual advancement system is planned to be a bit simpler than the usual RPG style, the main focus is placed into the actual interaction with the world and the combat system, making sure that both the single player and multiplayer experiences are equally enjoyable. Providing the players with six unique characters to start from ensures there is enough room for every type - as each character has its strengths and weaknesses.
We want to provide the players with the sense of presence in the world, therefore both audio and visual quality will stick to a high standard (that is still affordable and is realistic towards our incoming budget), while still leaving enough space for the story and gameplay aspects of the game. The actual story behind Dilogus - Winds of War has been developed and polished over years with multiple tests within various tabletop RPG game sessions , ensuring creativity and quality.
NOTE: The project completed pre-production and concept phase, thus we just started expanding our team. We are fully aware of the task and are one step ahead already with planning and management. Our project is highly anticipated by the Linux community.
Target aim and Release Details
Release type: Retail
Additional release details: Our current plans is a Digital Release only. In the event of further investment or publishing deals, we might be looking into a hard copy release as well. Our release would be distributed through our website and possibly Steam.
Compensation
Investment and sponsorships are currently still in the works, but anyone who commits any content towards the development of the game will be compensated when these occur. Due the fact that there are not much serious game development companies in our region that are investing this much work and effort in a project, we have the opportunity for funding.
Until further capital investment is received, we shall document work hours and services provided. After the capital investment has been assured, We shall fully compensate everyone who invested time for his/her work and services according to the documented work hours, and provide regular salary from the date and on.
NOTE: Until a full salary is introduced, you are not obligated to invest a large number of work hours nor have to work full-time on the project IF you do not wish to. However due to the nature of the project, we need to hand out a basic contract that will secure our co-operation.
Technology
Dilogus - The Winds of War is developed using 'Unigine Engine' technology, developed by Unigine Corp. Unigine Engine is the perfect choice for virtual world and next generation rendering and thus it is the best pick for an open world based game. While our previous choice was UDK , it unfortunately does not satisfy our aims to release to the Linux platform as well.
Key features of Unigine Engine are as listed below:
- Photorealistic 3D render
- Powerful physics module
- Object-oriented scripting system
- Full-featured GUI module
- Sound subsystem
- A set of flexible tools
Our target platform is the PC - Linux and Windows, and due the well optimized engine we can easily support the native Linux client.
Talent needed: 3D Environment Modeling for Realtime Game Environments
Due the fact that we have recently entered full scale development, we are looking to expand our team with up to three individuals that would be handling 3D environment modeling, most notably modular environment modeling. The role of these 3D Artists would be to join our current core and develop our first running internal prototype and essentially become part of the projects core.
Your tasks are going to revolve around developing the first pass of game models to create an environment for testing gameplay elements such is an inventory system with objects, a conversation system with NPC characters, handling day/night cycles or the very basics of the combat system. The models you are going to develop will need to follow modular approach and in most cases, we'll create variations of one object to create variety. This is a very easy to understand workflow and once you're on team we'll brief you in more detail.
A rundown of requirements that are highly anticipated, but can be discussed in case you would like to know more, or are unsure about some points:
- Proficient with Low and High poly modeling and texturing
- Proficient with Current game standard asset creation
- Ability to adopt specific workflow relevant to engine technology (Unigine Engine)
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Must be able to take instruction well and work to mutually agreed deadlines
- Creativity and good sense for shape and color
- Patience, tenacity and a positive attitude a must
- Must speak English fluently and be of legal age in your region (18+/21+,etc - Important because of the contract)
- Experience with developing 3D assets for Fantasy Games
- Strong understanding of Modular Modeling is a big plus
- GMT +1, GMT or GMT-1 Timezone for enhanced communication
- Good understanding of the RPG genre from gameplay perspective for enhanced fine tuning of level assets
- Unigine experience/familiarity is a big plus
- Knowledge of Redmine task tracking
Links
Dilogus - The Winds of War on IndieDB - our official page on IndieDB.
Digital Arrow official site - currently under development.
Contact
Please send all applications to: jobs@digital-arrow.com
You can also reach us on Skype. Account: the.tripx
Previous work by team
Digital Arrow is currently working on a small game in the background, and it's planned to be released in about three months. It's main aim is to create a new movement concept in games. It can be viewed on IndieDB here.
Besides Momentum, most members on the team have serious individual experience. We'll list some.
Norbert Varga - Worked as lead level designer on Jeklynn Heights before Digital Arrow was formed. Portfolio can be seen here.
Johannes Barte - Worked on [ame="
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JP Neufeld - Worked on Solar 2. Portfolio can be seen here.
Kyle Wang - Worked at Capcom. Portfolio can be seen here.
Matthew Eades - Worked at BioWare on Dragon Age 2.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated and welcomed.
Thank for your your time to read this post. We look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Digital Arrow