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Ofertas de trabalho (em agosto)

Procura-se um Material Artist (Gaia/Portugal), em que:
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Collaborate with art leadership and teams to establish, organize, and maintain our material library across all game content. You will be creating high-quality, physically-based materials to establish visual targets and support art efforts in our projects.
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+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um 3D Game Artist- Casual/Hypercasual (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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What You’ll Be Doing
Create environment and 3D art assets for games.
Optimize models for real-time rendering in Unity 3D
Provide reference art for game design and UI.
Design UI/UX elements
Contribute to developing in-game tools.
Manage and integrate assets into versioned repositories.
Seek feedback and collaborate for high-quality outcomes.

What We’re Looking For
Previous Unity experience.
At least 3 years of professional mobile game art experience (2D and 3D).
Proficiency in UI/UX design, Photoshop, Unity, and Blender (or other 3D software).
Familiarity with repository management, asset optimization, and pipeline creation.
Good English communication skills.
Ability to integrate art into Unity projects for testing.

You might also have
Experience in HybridCasual games
Familiarity with version control (GitHub).
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+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Lead Environment Artist (Gaia/Portugal), em que:
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Responsibilities will include:
Lead a team of internal and external Environment artists
Collaborate with the Art Director, game designers, engineers and producers to balance creative vision with production realities and ensure artistic goals are met within technical performance targets
Sculpt/model UV & texture meshes in a PBR pipeline
Verify the quality of objects in the game, and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction
Be an active mentor and role model for the art team. Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm.
Be directly responsible for delivering art assets with top notch quality from team

The ideal candidate will have:
Experience in Autodesk 3D Studio Max (modeling and texturing tools);
Senior games industry experience with industry 3D packages
Experience working on published AAA games
Expert knowledge of Maya, 3DSMax, ZBrush and Substance Painter
Excellent knowledge of Art production on AAA games (PBR, Shader and optimization)
Strong portfolio showing 3D art and composition skills, demonstrating a high level of artistic creativity
Showing pro-activity and interacting with other colleges and departments to solve problems and improve workflow/pipelines
Expert knowledge of 3D pipelines and asset management
Familiarity with game development cycle and engines
Great understanding of architecture and urbanism
Good organization and time management skills
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+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Material Artist (Gaia/Portugal), em que:
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Responsibilities will include:
Collaborates with art leadership and art teams to establish, organize and maintain our material library across all game content.
Creates high quality physically based materials using Substance Designer/Painter to establish visual targets and support art efforts across all game content.
Establishes organized material workflows in Substance Designer/ Painter. Collaborates in implementing and maintaining material pipelines.
Collaborates with other artists to build and integrate assets into visually consistent, high quality, and optimized environment art.
Anticipates and identifies production challenges to leads and Technical Directors.
Researches new tools and techniques to create more efficient and visually appealing environments.
Works with technical artist to develop advanced shader and material sets
Creates environment assets and scenes while considering hardware and design limitations and overall art vision of the project
Creates documentation supporting techniques and process and encourages the sharing of knowledge and ideas
Mentors less experienced members of the team

The ideal candidate will have:
Minimum of 5 years of experience in AAA game development or credit on at least one AAA title as material artist.
Expert skills in Substance Designer/Painter
Solid understanding of PBR rendering and the interaction between materials and lighting
Portfolio demonstrating a wide variety of tiled and one-to-one materials created using both procedural and 3d sculpted techniques and showing attention to detail, plausibility and an aesthetic eye
Prior knowledge and experience crafting 3D environment assets and scenes demonstrating:
Solid understanding of color theory and experience creating balanced color palettes with strong appeal
Good sense of form, volume, structure, and silhouette
Strong understanding of composition and balance
Solid understanding of efficient low poly mesh techniques
Strong UV layout techniques
Understanding of Texel density, memory limitations, etc.
Ability to follow concept/reference and ability to work with wide range of styles with minimal concept and direction.
Experience with high poly sculpting and modeling software such as Z-Brush & Maya
Experience with 2D image creation software such as Photoshop, Painter, 3D coat, etc.
Experience with world editors and level construction software
Excellent communication/collaboration skills.
Able to manage and organize work in order to meet deadlines.
Fluid and eager problem solve
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+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um HR DIRECTOR (Gaia/Portugal), em que:
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+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Senior Game Designer (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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What will you be doing at Miniclip?
Design and craft mission gameplay experiences and game features that deliver strong player engagement, retention, and monetization.
Take ownership of mission gameplay design and implementation, collaborating cross discipline to create new and exciting scenarios and moment-to-moment gameplay.
Participate as a key member of the product team across the product life-cycle, working on games in production, and live titles, owning and creating high-impact gameplay content updates for our existing portfolio of games.
Plan and execute mission designs within Unity using our proprietary tools and editors, from inception to finished product.
Review and iterate gameplay designs and mission implementation both during production and post release, incorporating feedback from key stakeholders and directing mission changes to balance game content based on analytics data.
Help identify and deconstruct new markets and opportunities, expanding the portfolio of the company and staying in the cutting edge of the mobile gaming industry.

What are we looking for?
4+ years’ experience of level and gameplay design for action/shooter titles, preferably on mobile.
An excellent knowledge and understanding of level and gameplay design.
Experience across the product life-cycle, from prototyping, through production, to updating a live free-to-play game.
Strong knowledge of the mobile & social game space, with exceptional understanding of current design techniques to deliver excellent engagement, retention, and monetisation.
Understanding of and experience with reviewing game analytics, developing insights based on data to make better informed design decisions.
Strong grasp of mobile user-experience design, and ability to consider & empathise with many different types of players.
Creative problem solver, with proven ability to create compelling gameplay.
Relentlessly self-critical always sees the pros and cons of each approach, and works tirelessly to improve design solutions. Prolific with high quality, well-thought-through proposals. ”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Principal Game Designer (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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About The Role
Drive the product vision for a new game concept from ideation and prototyping through production and launch.
Help build, lead, and nurture the growth of a team of talented Product Managers and Game Designers.
Share learnings with the broader product team and contribute to the overall development of our product strategy and portfolio of games.

What You’ll Achieve
You will identify an opportunity space and work with product leadership to build a game concept that clearly articulates how we can win in this space.
You will lead the prototyping efforts to prove out the concept and find its best expression by:
Carrying the product vision and defining the game design pillars that guide the team’s major decisions
Driving discussions and maintaining alignment on the team as you navigate through complex and ambiguous design spaces
Ultimately architecting a set of systems that meet your prototyping goals and give us strong conviction in the commercial viability of the game
You will have helped build and mentor a highly effective and engaged product team who push themselves and one another to their fullest potential.
You will become an expert in the opportunity spaces, genres, and game mechanics you explore during prototyping and share your learnings with the broader product team to advance our collective knowledge.
You will develop an independent design philosophy that upholds the key tenets of Fortis’ approach to products while adding your own unique approach to thinking about emerging patterns in service design.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful
A holistic view of game systems and the downstream effects of all design decisions throughout both the product and player lifecycle.
A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.
Ability to communicate your creative vision in a way that inspires and motivates teams.
Ability to articulate the nuances of abstract concepts and how they apply to complex, interrelated systems.
Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.
A razor-sharp focus on what matters and the discipline to ruthlessly prioritize against it.
Extensive knowledge of games as a service and live operations – you know what good looks like and can build efficient design processes, workflows, and tooling to enable it.
Enthusiasm for directing, mentoring, and otherwise elevating the people around you to do their best work.
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. ”
+infos(oficial): https://careers.fortisgames.com/

Procura-se um Senior Game Designer, Combat (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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Mission
Create and improve systems in order to make a cohesive, seamless, real-time combat experience. Through these, create a set of well balanced, exciting characters that form the foundation of a strategically exciting game. Release engaging content inside architected systems at a steady rate, for a wide variety of players. Become a strong, foundational designer who governs from first principles.

Outcomes
Create a combat experience that feels well balanced, cohesive and supports the broader gameplay
Develop a strong methodology for creating balanced combat systems using hypotheses and testing
Create design documents to articulate the most important pillars and aspects of the gameplay experience, class creation and cohesive combat
Consider and evaluate data from gameplay in meaningful ways in order to improve the combat experience
Develop a strong understanding of the interrelationships between different buckets of content & systems, and articulate clearly to other members of the design team
Maintain a rigid schedule for combat quality and accessibility improvements
Analyze and adjust content quality and depth to avoid depreciating returns in design
Understand and incrementally improve internal content generation systems for all types of model data
Provide proposals and improvements for combat systems, broader design and live ops roadmap with content consumption in mind.
Create design overviews to articulate improvements in design thought, through incremental improvements of these documents via feedback
Help the design team in sounding out the fundamentals of new systems & new games

Competencies
Synchronous combat design experience
Working knowledge of Unity
Experience in balancing numerically using spreadsheets
Keen interest in games as a service and their workings
Understanding of the systems that drive progression in MMOs/RPGs”
+infos(oficial): https://careers.fortisgames.com/

Procura-se um 3D Artist (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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What You’ll Be Doing
Create environment and 3D art assets for games.
Optimize models for real-time rendering in Unity 3D
Provide reference art for game design and UI.
Design UI/UX elements
Contribute to developing in-game tools.
Manage and integrate assets into versioned repositories.
Seek feedback and collaborate for high-quality outcomes.

What We’re Looking For
Previous Unity experience.
At least 3 years of professional mobile game art experience (2D and 3D).
Proficiency in UI/UX design, Photoshop, Unity, and Blender (or other 3D software).
Familiarity with repository management, asset optimization, and pipeline creation.
Good English communication skills.
Ability to integrate art into Unity projects for testing.

You might also have
Experience in HybridCasual games
Familiarity with version control (GitHub).”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Game Designer (trabalho remoto/Portugal), em que:
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Responsibilities:
Collaborative game design: Work closely with the Head of Game Design and cross-functional teams, including artists, developers, and managers, to conceptualize and implement game designs that align with the overall creative vision and project goals;
Game mechanics and systems: Design and iterate on game mechanics and systems that offer engaging and enjoyable player experiences, while also contributing to the overall game balance;
Storytelling and narrative: Contribute to the creation of compelling narratives and game worlds that immerse players in captivating storytelling experiences. Develop characters, quests, and lore that resonate with our player community;
Level and environment design: Collaborate on designing and structuring game levels, environments, and puzzles, ensuring a seamless and balanced gameplay flow;
Game balancing and tuning: Analyze gameplay data and player feedback to fine-tune and balance game systems, ensuring fair and enjoyable experiences for players of all skill levels;
User Experience (UX) design: Collaborate with UX/UI designer to ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience by refining UI/UX elements and interfaces;
Collaboration: Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages creativity and growth;
Market and competitor research: Stay up-to-date with gaming industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor games, leveraging this knowledge to inform the design and development process.

Requirements:
Proven track record: At least 3-5 years of experience as a Game Designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful projects and a demonstrable ability to design engaging gameplay experiences;
Extensive game design knowledge: Deep understanding of game design principles, mechanics, and player psychology. Proficiency in various game design tools and software;
Creativity and innovation: A natural flair for creative thinking and the ability to generate innovative ideas that push the boundaries of gaming;
Strong communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying complex ideas and design concepts effectively;
Team player: Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment, with a positive attitude and a willingness to receive and provide constructive feedback;
Passion for gaming: A genuine love for video games and a desire to create exceptional gaming experiences that resonate with players worldwide;
Adaptability and problem-solving: Ability to adapt to evolving project requirements and solve design challenges effectively;
Educational background: A degree in Game Design, Game Development, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred, but relevant work experience will also be considered.”
+infos(oficial): https://infinitygames.io/