Project Title:
Dreadlands
Description:
Dreadlands is an MMO set in a dystopian world thousands of years after a cataclysmic nuclear war. With a focus on character development, visceral directional combat, dynamic environments and a thriving world - Dreadlands sets out to re-invigorate the stagnating MMO genre.
Darktale Games is a small team from New Zealand. We are currently looking for talented people to jump on-board and help us work on our prototype. Key features for the prototype we hope to develop can be seen below and are just a slice of the systems / concepts we hope to implement latterly.
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Directional action packed melee combat system and ranged combat system
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Responsive movement system including dashing / dodging, jumping, crawling and rolling
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Character creation / customization system with shared rigging / UVs
Team Name:
Darktale Games Limited
Previous Work:
ARPG
Talent Required:
Technical Director / UE4 C++ Programmer [ROYALTY OPTION]
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Ideally looking for a technical director (but can just be a more casual role) to handle all tech for game design tasks and thinking up unique ways of approaching the complexities of an MMO.
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High level of experience in C++ and UE4 (preferably released title/s)
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Thorough understanding of client / server processes.
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SpatialOS experience a great bonus.
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Help us to navigate through task maps and prioritize correctly towards a working prototype that exemplifies core game play goal elements.
3D Character Modeler / Sculptor / Texture [CONTRACT}
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Understanding of high poly - low poly work flows, delivering high quality game ready assets.
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Able to utilize base meshes, maintaining UVs between characters and adding features as necessary separately.
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Understanding of texture workflows such as Substance.
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Industry experience a bonus.
3D Environment & Props Modeler / Sculptor / Texture [CONTRACT}
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Understanding of high poly - low poly work flows, delivering high quality game ready assets.
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Understanding of texture workflows such as Substance.
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Industry experience a bonus.
Character Rigger [CONTRACT}
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Deep understanding of rigging procedures and workflows. Able to work closely with animators to understand their goals.
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Able to work with humanoid bipeds and other cases.
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Able to assist with a rigging system that can be shared among biped characters.
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Industry experience a bonus.
**No job listed above but keen to get involved? **Please reach out to us!
Website:
www.darktalegames.com - not much there currently until we get a bit further in the process!
Contact:
E-mail: [EMAIL=“kane@darktalegames.com”]admin@darktalegames.com
