Blue Isle Studios is seeking a talented and enthusiastic gameplay programmer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building exciting multiplayer games and has significant experience working with Unreal Engine 4. We are looking for someone that is comfortable working closely with designers to create compelling gameplay experiences, implement new content and help designers improve on their world building workflows. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who is genuinely passionate and excited to create amazing video game experiences.
This is a full-time position working from our office located in downtown Toronto.** We are not looking for remote contract work at this time.**
Responsibilities:
Develop multiplayer gameplay systems for the design team
Ensure gameplay systems are performant by regularly taking stats dumps
Work with a UI designer on gameplay specific UI
Work with the vfx/sfx team on gameplay specific sound and visual implementations
Requirements:
Strong C++ and blueprinting skills in Unreal Engine 4
Ability to take light designs and communicate in order to flesh out a full implementation
Strong data structures, logic and algorithm skills
Strong understanding of vector math
Experience with multithreading and networking
Experience working with client/server architecture
Experience with performance analysis and code optimization
High level of comfort extending and improving upon an existing code base
Excellent communication skills
Minimum of 5 years coding experience
Minimum of 2 years experience programming in the video game industry
Plusses:
Technical art skills with particles using cascade
Technical art skills with skeletal meshes using persona
Computer science or related degree
Experience with multithreading
Please contact us [EMAIL=“”] with samples of your work, cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note that due to the volume of submissions we will not be able to directly respond to everyone
About The Studio
Founded in 2010, Blue Isle Studios is an independent developer and publisher located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. Lead by industry veterans Alex Tintor and Brenden Frank, Blue Isle has established itself as one of the most exciting independent developers, creating iconic experiences that have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Blue Isle Studios is looking for an exceptionally skilled senior environment artist to join our team. Your focus will be to create large scale, immersive environments and atmospheres for players while remaining conscious of polygon limits, draw calls and fill rate. Your skills and responsibilities will include modelling, texturing, lighting, optimization and level design while reporting to the art lead. You must have the creative sense to sometimes work with little or no concept art, prototype and gather reference material for your designs.
This is a full-time employment position working from our office located in downtown Toronto, Canada. Remote workers will not be considered at this time.
Responsibilities
Work with the creative lead to deliver art assets by assigned due dates
Design and implement artwork directly within Unreal Engine 4
Use Unreal Engine 4 terrain tools to assemble large scale terrains
Optimize, combine and atlas textures and meshes to ensure good performance
Requirements
A minimum of 5 years experience creating fully realized 3D environments
Strong foundation in ZBrush/Mudbox, Quixel/Substance Painter and Photoshop
A thorough understanding of 3D Studio Max and/or Maya
Experience using the Unreal Engine 4 material editor and authoring materials
Experience creating Physically Based textures and materials
Experience creating assets in Unreal Engine 4 as well as importing and managing assets
Able to design and light interior/exterior spaces within Unreal Engine
Experience with optimization techniques such as mesh merging and creation of texture atlases to reduce draw calls
A good understanding of what’s needed to set dress an environment
Self-motivation, good communications skills, and a great team-player attitude
Pluses
A degree or formal art training in illustration, traditional painting or industrial design
Experience working with Unity Engine and its art pipeline
Experience using World Machine
Please contact us at with samples of your work, cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
About The Studio
Founded in 2010, Blue Isle Studios is an independent developer and publisher located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. Lead by industry veterans Alex Tintor and Brenden Frank, Blue Isle has established itself as one of the most exciting independent developers, creating iconic experiences that have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Blue Isle Studios is looking for an exceptionally skilled 3D character artist to join our team. Your focus will be to create highly realistic, detailed characters for use in a brand new, in development title while remaining conscious of polygon limits and smart texture usage. Your skills and responsibilities would include modelling, texturing, material creation and optimization while reporting to the art lead.
This is a full-time contract (minimum 6 months) or full employment position.
Responsibilities
Sculpt, model and texture highly detailed characters for use in Unreal Engine 4 based off of concept art and reference imagery
Ensure characters have proper topology for animation
Work with the creative lead to deliver art assets by assigned due dates
Requirements
A minimum of 3 years experience creating fully realized 3D characters
Strong foundation in ZBrush/Mudbox, Quixel/Substance Painter and Photoshop
A thorough understanding of 3D Studio Max and/or Maya
Experience using the Unreal Engine 4 material editor and authoring materials
Experience creating Physically Based textures and materials
Experience creating assets in Unreal Engine 4 as well as importing and managing assets
Self-motivation, good communications skills and a great team-player attitude
Pluses
A degree or formal art training in illustration, traditional painting, animation, design or traditional media
Experience rigging meshes for animation
Experience creating animations in Maya or 3DSMax
Experience working with Unity engine and its art pipeline
Please contact us at** [EMAIL=“”]** with samples of your work, cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note that due to the volume of submissions we will not be able to directly respond to everyone.
About The Studio
Founded in 2010, Blue Isle Studios is an independent developer and publisher located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. Lead by industry veterans Alex Tintor and Brenden Frank, Blue Isle has established itself as one of the most exciting independent developers, creating iconic experiences that have sold millions of copies worldwide.