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MSNBC covers Red 5’s award winning Golden Ticket recruiting campaign.

Join the Tribe

People are our passion. We crave talented, creative individuals who are driven to make the best online games in the world. And we go to great lengths to find them, with award winning recruiting programs like the Golden Ticket campaign.

The biggest thing we look for, besides talent, is culture. We like to think of ourselves as a tribe of inspired gamers. And like any tribe, we’re a family. We work in small, interdisciplinary teams, and how we work together is just as important as any individual contribution. In this way, our sum is greater than our parts, and the tribe grows stronger with each new member. Come join us in sunny Orange County, California.

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You love gaming communities, and you understand how they work, what they care about and how they respond to situations. You can write a terrific press release and you create infectious excitement amongst gamers everywhere, whether through forum posts, personal emails, or in-person events. You are both thick-skinned and flame-retardant. You love games… live games, and are games. Being the frontline interface with the gaming community for a brand new game is extremely exciting to you.

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You look at massively multiplayer online games as a collection of systems and code. You love watching players encounter the new features and systems you’ve written, allowing them to interact with the world and perhaps even create new things within it. Item creation, guild systems, spells and abilities – anything the players can interact with is in your purview. During the design process you’re all about prototyping game systems, and both before and after release you want to make sure the logic on the server that governs these systems is sound. Building upon the fundamental server architecture, you and the other gameplay programmers code the systems players will utilize over and over again.

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Where you’re concerned, no database is ever fast enough or reliable enough. You enjoy designing and tuning databases to meet the unique requirements of a massive team-based action shooter, a MMO like nothing else on the market, and all its various components. Working with the latest in open source database technology, you craft custom solutions that are flexible, adaptable and fast. In the end, it’s all about collecting and organizing raw, untamed data and coaxing out the most valuable information; coming up with the tools that let even the least database-savvy members of your team view the data they need to see and organize it in the manner necessary to accomplish their missions. If you can do all that and keep the data secure and flowing unhindered, you’re happy.

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Creating dynamic web applications using tools like AJAX, Javascript, and Web Standards is something you’re willing to do for fun, but it’s even better when you can get someone to pay you. You love Web 2.0 applications and have a million ideas on how to create dynamic websites for MMOs. The best part of web development is the rapid turnaround: you can get new features deployed quickly and see how people like it within hours. You keep this fact in mind as you develop tools for our game designers, allowing them to decipher what’s happening in the game, and for the rest of the team by providing them access to the collected data and a means to sort it into useful categories.

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You thrive on all aspects of the creative game process; working with artists, sound engineers and designers. Seeing your work come to fruition and being able to make an immediate impact on the game is rewarding to your sense of functionality and engineering. Designing products while adhering to the technical requirements of the project is something that you do very well. The ability to to identify roadblocks up ahead and create solutions to overcome them and other possible problems is a natural extension of who you are. Implementing the UI in Lua and familiarity with Red 5’s GUI comes easily to you.

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You are the architect of the environment in the game, building visually stunning areas where players can’t quite decide whether to stare in awe at their surroundings or concentrate on killing each other. It’s your responsibility to make sure the environments aren’t just attractive, but functional as well – providing interesting tactical choices that draw attention to important aspects of the game play experience. In addition to crafting the play spaces, you also excel at making the world come to life by populating it with objects, NPCs and encounters. By working closely with other artists, designers, and programmers, you devise ways to structure your landscapes so players can use all their characters’ abilities and all their own game play skills to discover and overcome challenges and opponents.

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The first time you used a website, you knew that you couldn’t wait to build your own. Your passion for emerging technologies, design trends and usability advancements has driven you to create a multitude of awesome web sites that push the limits of what a browser is capable of. You dive into the issues of cross-browser compatibility while utilizing the latest cutting-edge clientside scripting tools.

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When you browse the web, you can’t help but redesign every site you see. You’re always tweaking and improving the designs you work on to create better user experiences or try out new design elements you’ve heard about or seen in practice. You have an inate ability to design interesting user interfaces that users are able to latch onto and understand. You have a complete understanding of the latest design trends and think “Web 2.0″ is nothing more than a press buzzword and the future hasn’t been written yet for what the web is able to deliver.

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You breathe life into the worlds we create. Whether you’re animating a character with two legs or six legs, you make their movements believable and memorable. From the smallest, nuanced gesture to all-out action, your understanding of weight and timing transcends the 2D confines of an animation program, making the player truly connect with their characters and the enemies they fight.

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You are a hardcore gamer who has attended many gaming and geek culture events on your own time and as a professional working behind-the-scenes. You know what gamers want and recognize what they need. Being a driving force behind event experiences that are fun and engaging for gamers is a source of excitement and motivation. Your attention to detail, stellar organization, and expert communication skills help you to juggle numerous tasks easily. High-pressure situations don’t faze you. In fact, you tend to shine when the pressure is on, and your calm and collected manner helps everyone around you work better under pressure, too.

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You’re a hardcore gamer. When you play games you push them to their limits trying to break and exploit them. You can easily communicate and explain complex issues clearly and simply, your succinctness is legendary. You look at a series of problems and investigate until you see one core issue. You’re detail oriented, nothing gets by you.

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You’re a nerd. Not just any nerd, a nerd who likes to get in front of other people and scream how awesome it is to be a nerd. You love talking about games and you love talking to gamers. So much so that you try to involve yourself in every gaming community you hear about. You love writing blog posts, taking pictures, making videos, posting on forums, and commenting on social media. And you’d love to do all of this for the Firefall community. Remote workers free to apply.

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You are the architect for the playable space in the world, building mechanically interesting areas in which players enjoy exploring as much as they do trying to kill one another. It’s your responsibility to make sure the environments aren’t only laid out well, but functional while providing many interesting tactical choices for players to discover. By working closely with other designers and programmers, you devise ways to structure your levels so players can use all their characters’ abilities and all their own game play skills to overcome challenges and opponents.

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Icons fascinate you. While researching various Icon styles from games you think about ways to incorporate them into your work. Massively multiplayer online games excite you, because you get to create multiple icons in an original IP adhering to Firefall’s style. Your icon creations shape the perceptions of the players of the game, instantly conveying to them a message about the objects in the game. Your clear and concise rendering skills make others appreciate your work, as does your excellent line quality. Whenever the opportunity arises, you enjoy working with a team of other concept artists to create fully-integrated art into the game.

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You love to create in 3D. Whether it’s organic or mechanical, you can spend hours looking at vertices and edges, adding the details that most other modelers miss. You find yourself looking at real world objects and thinking about how you would model them. You have a thorough understanding and appreciation of anatomy and apply that knowledge to the creatures you create – whether based in this world or another.

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You are one of the architects of encounters in Firefall, building challenging events where players can fight shoulder to shoulder to save the world! By designing encounters, you are able to breathe life into the world through the inspired use of object, NPCs and their behaviors. It is your responsibility to make sure the experiences aren’t just fun, but flawless as well – providing interesting tactical choices that draw attention to all aspects of the game play experience.

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You look at massively multiplayer online games as a collection of systems and code. You love watching players encounter the new features and systems you’ve written, allowing them to interact with the world and perhaps even create new things within it. Item creation, guild systems, spells and abilities – anything the players can interact with is in your purview. During the design process you’re all about prototyping game systems, and both before and after release you want to make sure the logic on the server that governs these systems is sound. Building upon the fundamental server architecture, you and the other gameplay programmers code the systems players will utilize over and over again.

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Audiophile doesn’t even begin to describe your love for audio. You hear all the little details others miss and try to figure out how they were made and how you could make them better. You have a passion for utilizing your background in audio production on a world-class video game. While composing is fun, you really want to dive deep into foley and dialog work to make the game shine.

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You’re all about the latest and greatest 3D technology, and want to choose and implement the right choices for our game and our art style. You’re eager to develop new cutting-edge graphics features for the Firefall engine to better showcase the extraordinary artwork being produced. But you aren’t satisfied with just implementing technology—you also enjoy making the artists’ jobs easier by making great tools to leverage the graphics capabilities of the game. What use is great graphics technology if the artists struggle to use it?

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You love programming useful web applications to enhance the gamer’s experience, and finding ways to get the most performance out of databases. Your work extends the game into the real world, and lets gamers interact with the game remotely from any web enabled device. You enjoy building communities online, and finding ways to make game data interesting and useful. You also deeply enjoy the challenge of scaling web and database functionality to handle millions of gamers, using smart programming, exploring the latest open source tools and languages, and a critical eye for performance.

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You are a talented artist that enjoys the challenges of expressing abstract ideas through the animation and creation of visual effects. You enjoy tweaking particle generators and designing new ways to make something explode or burn or making waves crash on the shore. You have experience working with organic and mechanical effects and are able to represent a magic missile as easily as an exploding grenade.

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You are a highly motivated Linux and Windows guru who is just as much at home working on remote servers as you are fixing a Windows desktop. You love trying out new technologies and putting those technologies into practice in a production environment. You are comfortable working with artists, developers and executives alike in order to make sure projects stay on track and any technical problems are resolved.

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You can’t get enough of playing and designing multiplayer, competitive shooters. You are almost always at the top of the ranks and have a deep understanding of what makes for fun and competitive gameplay. But you also are able to identify with the needs of casual gamers, recognizing the activities, hooks and helpful UI and feedback elements that will draw more players into your game.

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You love designing spaces for groups of players to strut their stuff. You live for the hoots and hollers that erupt during a gameplay test based on the levels your team has created. You also love coaching and developing new talent, driving their creativity to create compelling multiplayer competition. You have a strong sense of level flow, balance and timing, but you also have an artistic side, and are comfortable working with artists to ensure your levels are as breathtakingly beautiful as they are fun to play.

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What’s It All About

You look at massively multiplayer online games as a collection of systems and code. You love watching players encounter the new features and systems you’ve written, allowing them to interact with the world and perhaps even create new things within it. Item creation, guild systems, spells and abilities—anything the players can interact with is in your purview.

During the design process you’re all about prototyping game systems, and both before and after release you want to make sure the logic on the server that governs these systems is sound. Building upon the fundamental server architecture, you and the other gameplay programmers code the systems players will utilize over and over again.

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You are driven to solve difficult architectural challenges in the design and implementation of server clusters and client/server game programming. You enjoy figuring out how to get the most out of multi processor servers and limited bandwidth to support great online gameplay. You are comfortable with complicated multi-threaded environments and asynchronous network code and understand the complexities of highly scalable server architectures.

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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?

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As a technical artist, you live in the world between code and color. You love to figure out how to make a graphics engine sit up and beg, rendering visual effects that inspire and motivate players. You are equally comfortable whipping up a MaxScript or MEL script, as you are jumping into HLSL to tweak a shader.