Month: September 2022

Oferta de trabalho (em Lisboa)

Surgiu uma proposta de trabalho para Game Programmer – Unity Developer, da qual surge:

“REQUISITOS:
Experiência no desenvolvimento de jogos;
Experiência no desenvolvimento com UNITY (nível mínimo exigido – intermediário);
Conhecimento em ANGULAR / REACT (nível mínimo exigido – iniciante);
Conhecimento de programação orientada a objetos (C#, Javascript);
Conhecimento de Design Orientado a Objetos;
Fortes habilidades matemáticas;

DESEJÁVEL:
Graduação em TI ou similar;
Conhecimento em banco de dados com estrutura relacional (MySQL) e não relacional (MongoDB);
Compreensão da metodologia Agile & Scrum.

AS TUAS FUNÇÕES:
Trabalhar em estreita colaboração com a equipe de design transformando ideias em recursos e serviços;
Planear e implementar as features dos jogos;
Desenvolver processos, tecnologias e ferramentas com elevado rigor técnico;
Criar documentação técnica;
Revisar e atualizar documentos técnicos existentes e futuros;
Responsabilidades adicionais podem ser atribuídas conforme necessário.

OFERECEMOS:
Auxílio moradia (destinado a recém-chegados);
Horário flexível (entrada e saída) adequado às tuas necessidades;
Escritório com fácil acesso;
Liberdade para propor novas atividades, processos e metodologias;
Ambiente (e dress-code) descontraído.”

+infos(oficial): https://www.darkcloud.games/game-programmer/

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Oferta de trabalho (remota)

A Fortis Games em Portugal, tem uma nova proposta de trabalho que achei interessante e que é de “Senior Game Economy Designer“. Da descrição surge:
“Create content and play scenarios that are highly tunable and interactive, representative of the broader gameplay:
Understand and operate existing systems and tool capabilities
Use strong critical and analytical thinking to work with complex intertwined systems;
Create content that highlights game features and explores a variety of user-profiles and play patterns
Have a strong methodology for creating content based on hypotheses, data modeling, and testing;
Formulate playtest questions and interpret results into meaningful experience adjustments
Contribute to new features and supporting systems’ creation
Identify opportunities for expansion of features
Build new systems’ outlines in a way that is complementary and supportive of existing game mechanics
Help create, present and improve design docs and supporting data structures with a clear understanding of change impact and magnitude. Incrementally improve these via feedback
Regularly sync with team members and partners to receive feedback about play experience, wants and needs;
Analyze and tune content quality and depth to avoid depreciating returns in value
Understand and incrementally improve internal content generation systems for all types of model data
Provide input on game mechanics, broader design and live ops roadmap with content consumption in mind.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Understanding of the systems that drive progression in Life Simulation games.
Strong proficiency in using spreadsheets for economy balance
Proficiency in designing a player-driven economy for an MMO
Experience with working remote and very good communication skills
Keen interest in multiplayer games as a service and their workings”

+infos(oficial): LINK

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Homeworld, uma história de um GameDev

Um história na primeira pessoa em como surgiu o jogo Homeworld :)

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Livros acerca de videojogos

Não conhecia, mas encontrei este portal que permite comprar livros acerca de videojogos :) Podemos até nem comprar mas é um excelente local para fazer pesquisas!

+infos(oficial): https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/

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Fabiano Naspolini o GameDev

Do Brasil por vezes surgem um vídeos interessantes acerca do desenvolvimento de videojogos. Um desses autores que eu de vez em quando vou vendo as coisas que ele faz é o Fabiano Naspolini. Ele tem um canal de nome Fábrica de Jogos que permite assistir no youtube o mais diversificado tipo de vídeos relacionados com o desenvolvimento de videojogos. Ele também uns cursos online sobre alguns temas (gostava de assistir a um deles, contudo os vídeos estão numa plataforma dele e tenho sempre algum receio que um dia destes a plataforma seja desligada e fico sem aceder!!)

+infos(oficial): LINK

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Oferta de trabalho (remota)

A Fortis Games tem duas propostas de trabalho remoto em Portugal:
“About The Role Game Designer
You’ll be a key part of a prototyping team exploring new innovative design spaces working on next-generation games as a service.
Share learnings with the broader product team and contribute to the overall development of our product strategy and portfolio of games.
(…)
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
An understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.
Great sense for game balance, progression, and pacing and an exceptional attention to detail.
Enthusiasm for solving tough problems and strong critical thinking skills.
Ability to synthesize feedback from team members and rapidly iterate on designs.
A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn – we believe this is essential to our ability to stay ahead of the market and value this over years of experience.
We expect all team members to be students of their craft and the game spaces they’re working in.
You should be educated on the latest trends and have a strong perspective on how they relate to our current and future projects regardless of your title or role.

About The Role Game Designer, Content
Create a set of well balanced, exciting content for an innovative free to play game and support the game through its development stages. Work with existing systems to develop meaningful play scenarios that explore strategic depth in accordance with the concept vision. Help develop new systems and features that achieve fun, engaging and competitive gameplay. Become a strong, foundational designer in a distributed, remote first, diverse development team.
(…)
What You Will Need To Be Successful
Working knowledge of Unity
Experience in using spreadsheets
Experience with working remote and very good communication skills
Keen interest in games as a service and their workings
Understanding of the systems that drive progression in games

+infos(oficial): LINK

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Oferta de trabalho (em Gaia)

A empresa Saber Porto está a procura de um Senior ART para a construção de veículos 3D :)

+infos(oficial): https://saber.games/

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Unity Software Bundle: Art Bundle

Outra campanha pela malta da Humble Bundle relacionada com assets visuais e outros para serem usados no Unity. Do texto consta: “Characters, environments, music, SFX, and artists’ tools galore. Bring your game to life with this bundle of incredible art assets & artists’ tools—specifically curated for Unity creators! Featuring characters, environmental elements, SFX, music, animations, and prefabs, this library of thousands of assets and creative utilities will help you realize game worlds for a wide range of genres.
Build a low-poly 3D dungeon, or craft a lush natural world with an anime-inspired look. Discover loops and tracks to score your horror game, and add the sounds of battle to your fantasy epic. Get menageries of creatures, a fantasy realm’s worth of level-building blocks, and lots more.”

desta lista consta:
“Quibli: Anime Shaders and Tools
POLYGON Dungeons – Low Poly 3D Art by Synty
Total Music Collection
Monsters Ultimate Pack 02 Cute Series
Ultimate Sound FX Bundle
Meadow Environment – Dynamic Nature
Boing Kit: Dynamic Bouncy Bones, Grass, and More
Toon Fantasy Nature
ProPixelizer
Forest animals
Party Monster Rumble PBR
Eternal Temple
Quirky Series – Animals Mega Pack Vol.1
Quirky Series – Animals Mega Pack Vol.2
Underwater FX
Monster Sounds Pack
Character Creator 2D
Magica Cloth
Footsteps Sound Pack
Basic Motions
BIRDS PACK
Little Dragons: Tiger
Pixelate
Map Graph
RPG VFX Bundle
Brute Force – Snow & Ice Shader
Seamless Texture Generator”

+infos(oficial): LINK

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Oferta de trabalho (em Lisboa)

A empresa: The Gang tem uma série de propostas de trabalho das quais destaco:
“As the Game Programmer, you will play a key role in developing new updates to our existing games as well as developing new games on the Roblox Platform. Working on the Roblox Platform and in a small team for each game will give you a lot of creative freedom, this means that you will be able to define the player experience a lot and also you will get to work on every part of the game, from UI-code and gameplay logic to server code.

Starting date: Now, permanent contract after 6 months probationary period
Reporting to: TBD
Location: working 100% remote from home, with the option for hybrid/in-office work at our Lisbon office. Discord and Slack are your best friends.
Work time: Full time on Stockholm working hours
Company language: English

Required Qualifications
Experience with programming in the C-family and LUA
5+ years of professional game development and/or other software development experience
Strong English required, Swedish knowledge a plus but not needed
Located in Sweden or Portugal

As a 3D Game Artist, you will play a key role in creating art for our new projects and our existing games. You will work closely with other artists, designers and programmers to create assets for our existing games and art styles as well as be part of building new projects. You will get the opportunity to work on our own established IPs as well as working with some of the biggest brand clients worldwide.
Starting date: Now, permanent contract after 6 months probationary period

Reporting to: Art Managers
Location: working 100% remote from home, with the option for hybrid/in-office work at our Lisbon office. Discord and Slack are your best friends.
Work time: Full time, company time zone CET
Company language: English

To be successful in this position
You are a self-driven versatile artist and a good team player
You are able to analyze and follow established art direction, create optimized assets from the design stage to final implementation, and convey it to others
You can create assets from scratch from initial design to final in-engine implementation in a timely manner
You communicate and collaborate clearly and effectively within a cross-functional team

Required Qualifications
3 years of professional experience
Demonstrable proficiency in a 3D modeling package such as Blender, Maya or Max
Experience working in a games engine such as Unity or Unreal
Good understanding of technical constraints and optimization
Proficiency working in a cartoony or stylized art style
Experience working in an agile and iterative workflow
Fluency in English. Swedish is a bonus but not needed.

Desired Qualifications
Skills with animation or VFX
Skills creating 2D assets and UI
Previous familiarity with the Roblox platform

Senior Game Designer
The Gang is now looking for experienced Game Designers to work on creating a vision for our new projects and our existing games. As a Game Designer at The Gang your main role is to work closely with the other disciplines to drive and fulfill the vision of the game and to deliver an experience that meets the expectations of the players and the team.

You will be responsible for designing and balancing features, building levels, designing story and quests, onboarding and more. Together with the team make sure that the project planning and documentation is up to date and through play tests and feedback iterate on the games. In case of work for hire productions you will be the creative point of contact, so a strong social competence is highly desired for this role.

Starting date: Now, permanent contract after 6 months probationary period

Location: working 100% remote, company timezone CET. Slack and Discord are your best friends.
Work time: Full time
Company language: English

Life at The Gang – Fun, playful, fearless and always going forward!
We strive to deliver awesome digital experiences and have fun while doing it, always learning and moving forward. Working at The Gang you will have a lot of ownership over your tasks and be empowered to test your ideas and grow in a playful and supportive group.

Required Qualifications
5+ years of games industry experience
2 shipped games or large updates
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Great knowledge of Agile workflows such as Scrum or Kanban
Exceptional communication skills

Desired Qualifications
Strong monetization knowledge from free to play
Strong UX design skills
Experience in making games for target audiences of 5-12 years
Programming skills (c-family, Lua, Javascript)”

+infos(oficial): https://careers.thegang.io/#section-jobs

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Humble Software Bundle: Unity Tools Bundle


Esta é uma campanha interessante ao nível de software/add-ons para o Unity, com bastantes coisas e diversificadas. Algumas não conheço outras já vi serem usadas. Do texto de apresentação surge: “The ultimate Unity game creator’s kit. Build the game you’re envisioning with this massive bundle of versatile tools for Unity, the world’s leading platform for real-time content creation! Featuring more than two dozen utilities, systems, and other assets built with game creators in mind, this bundle will help you: Design levels faster and build 2D and 3D worlds more efficiently; Manage animation and motion more easily; Create effects ranging from lighting to weather-filled skies;
Add systems for dialogue, destruction, and more And many more… Whether you’re dreaming of building a role-playing game, top-down shooter, or sci-fi mech sim, this bundle will help you turn your vision into a reality”

desta lista consta:
TopDown Engine
Magic Light Probes
Prefab World Builder
UniStorm – Volumetric Clouds, Sky, Modular Weather, and Cloud Shadows
Smart Lighting 2D
Storyteller
DestroyIt – Destruction System
Fullscreen Editor
Better UI
FluXY – 2.5D fluid simulator
EndlessBook
Script Inspector 3
Dialogue System for Unity
CCG Kit
Very Animation
Mech Combat Kit
Blocks Engine 2
Train Controller (Railroad System) ULTIMATE COLLECTION
Broccoli Tree Creator
Performance Tools
True Shadow – UI Soft Shadow and Glow
Archimatix Pro
RPG Cameras & Controllers
Modular Motion
Bones Stimulator
Asset Store 10% off Coupon

+infos(oficial): LINK

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Humble Software Bundle: Maps Seectacular (uma campanha)

Uma campanha que está a decorrer e que tem como “oferta” mapas digitais para videojogos. Do texto surge: “Bring your fantasy world to life. Put some more polish and pedigree into the fantasy & role-playing worlds you build with this extensive collection that bundles infinite creative potential! Whether you’re designing dungeons to challenge a party (Dungeon Designer 3), a city to capture their wonder (City Designer 3), or a connective world for an epic trans-continental campaign (Campaign Cartographer 3), elevate the way you bring your world to life with the amazing design software and art resources”

Da lista de oferta surge:
City Designer 3
Dungeon Designer 3
Campaign Cartographer 3+ Lifetime License
Avenues and Alleys
Fantastic Landscapes
Exotic Locales
More than Maps
Sources Maps: Castles
Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans
Source Maps: Temples, Tombs and Catacombs
Symbols: Cities of Schley
Source Maps: Cities!
World Builder’s Compendium
Token Treasury: Monsters
Battle Maps Collection
Modern Mapper
The Age of Exploration
Dungeons & Floorplans

+infos(oficial): LINK

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