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What’s It All About

Your work makes a game overflowing with awesome content possible. Excellent tools double or triple the productivity of each designer and artist, and make the impossible, possible. You believe tools shouldn’t be “rough around the edges”; they should be polished, well thought-out, and most of all, FUN to use. If the tools you create don’t match the highest standards, how can the games you design?

A Typical Day

You start off spending your morning finishing off a new, fast, indexed search system for game assets. It’s finally done, and the artists who normally spend ten minutes at a time thrashing around just to find one specific asset can now spend more time drawing and less time searching. That three weeks of work just saved the team years of effort, and you can see the results in their productivity. Afterward, while looking through your email, you notice one of the designers mentioning he’s been spending a lot of time doing a task you realize could be automated. You outline a fix that should make the designer’s life easier, get a design together, and start working on a new tool.

Who You Work With the Most

Because the editor interfaces with everyone, you end up working with the entire team. You work with gameplay programmers extensively, defining data standards and supporting new features for the designers and artists to use. You work with designers, artists, and world builders, figuring out what tools you can create to improve their work and talking to them about their needs and what new features you can implement.

What You’ve Done Before

• Prior experience creating great tools, user interfaces or workflows.
• Significant experience and capability with C#.
• Deep understanding of threading and event model within C# and WPF a plus.
• Additional experience with C/C++
• Experience integrating applications with SQL databases.
• Experience designing & implementing GUIs. WPF experience a plus.
• Passion for creating great online games.
• Great people skills, able to work in multi-disciplinary, team oriented environments.
• A sense of fun.