Dejobaan Games, LLC is looking for creative technical people to help develop algorithmic content generators for its 14th title. This is fun tidbits of for-credit work with an award-winning game development studio that may lead to paid contract work.
WHO IS DEJOBAAN GAMES?We're the developers behind
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, a BASE jumping game where you leap off of a perfectly good building, create your own stunts, and flip people off for points. Our 13th title, Aaaaa! has gained critical and commercial success:
- Finalist, Independent Games Festival 2010
- Finalist, Indie Game Challenge 2010
- Winner, ModDB Editor's Choice Best Indie Game of 2010
- Winner, Penny Arcade Expo 2010 (PAX East) Boston Indie Showcase
- Metacritic highlighted as 20th highest-ranked PC title of 2009
Aaaaa! has appeared in print (PC Gamer, Edge, Gee Magazine), online (Joystick, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun), and will shortly make an appearance on
G4 TV. It's currently published on Steam, D2D, Gamer's Game, Impulse, and WildTangent.
THE WORKWe're now creating small, modular pieces for the level generation engine for our as-yet-unannounced 14th title. Basically, we create a script that instantiates a bunch of entities in interesting patterns. Here are some examples of our early work:
What's that!? It's what we call level skeletons -- the basic building blocks upon which Aaaaa!'s levels were created. Here's an example of the script that generates such a pattern:
As you can see, this is a subset of C-Script. We're looking for people who can create such scripts.
CONTRACT BASICS- 8 weeks, 10h/week.
- Familiarity with C-Script or Lite-C.
- This is for-credit on a published game.
- You must be 18+.
GET INVOLVED!With our 14th title, we hope to outdo our previous efforts, win even more awards, and just have fun.
We hope to provide you with solid experience working with a proven team on a fun, high-profile project. To get involved, send over your resume/CV or portfolio to support@dejobaan
.com. We want to hear about your work! Feel free to post questions to this thread.
No forum PMs, please.If you think this might be appropriate for someone, please send them this way. And thanks for reading!