Gameplay Programmer, Virtex Stadium
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Virtual stadium
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Virtual stadium
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring the intense excitement and joy of a live event to every fan around the world.
Role
Who you are
- As an ideal candidate, you will have a great understanding of Unreal Engine and a passion for designing virtual experiences
- We are a growing studio, so this requires plenty of hands-on work creating, iterating, and tuning systems/mechanics
- You are comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment where goals and constraints are mostly team-driven and where change, big and small, is a critical part of the process
- If you don't match all of these points but feel like you have something else to offer in this role, we would still love to hear from you
- 3+ years of Gameplay Programming experience, with demonstrable work on at least one published title
- Proficiency at scripting in Blueprints and a basic understanding of C++
- Able to rapidly prototype concepts and later polish into production-ready solutions
- Good knowledge of game flow and what makes a great user experience
- Can create and improve complex mechanics and/or systems with attention to the user impacts and downstream effects
- Excellent communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
- Experienced working with animation blueprints, rigging, control rigs and animation retargeting
- Experience creating a range of complex custom shaders using unreal material editor
- Passion for Esports, VR or live events
- Experience working with UMG or comparative game-oriented UI systems
- Solid understanding of actor hierarchy incl. C++ parent class relationships for blueprint actors
- Knowledge of procedural generation software (e.g. Houdini)
- Familiar with Epic's standard best practices
- Familiar with Unreal Engine Virtual Production tools and pipeline
- Experience working Unreal's AI and/or NPC system
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Gameplay Programmer to join our core Virtex Stadium platform team
- You will collaborate with the development, art and design teams to design and optimize our user’s experience
- Your analytical skills, user insights, and creativity aid in crafting experiences that engage and surprise users
- Design, implement, and improve the core platform, VR mechanics and key systems
- Create and provide multiple potential design and technical solutions, as well as articulate trade-offs and risks between different options
- Work collaboratively with the technical, art and design teams to create a great holistic experience
- Work on a wide variety of 3rd party standards and resources (often coming from different AAA studios or game engines) for a variety of different technical and design-driven solutions
- Create clear design documentation that can be evaluated and implemented by non-designers
Our take
After a decade working in the eSports industry, Virtex’s founder developed a deep understanding how passionate fans of eSports can be and what they look for in a shared community.
Virtex Stadium is a Virtual Reality focused virtual stadium developer offering a social VR experience. People interested can join a lobby and then hang out and interact with others who have also joined. Or they can immediately enter the stadium to watch eSports, along with hundreds of other people who have also joined live. Through partnerships with publishers and organisers, Virtex are hoping to provide a virtual stadium experience for all the leading eSports games.
This is a billion-dollar industry and Virtex is well placed within it, both given its founders professional and personal experiences within eSports community, but also following funding that has been invested into expanding the reach of the platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $3.2m
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Christoph Ortlepp
(COO)Previously co-founded Splitverse and acted as CEO. Experience as a Consultant for Oliver Wyman and in Corporate Planning for Henkel, and in Innovation Management for Krones AG.
Tim Mcguinness
(CEO)Previously founded Team Gravity VR eSports, MyKii Limited, and Virtex Studios. Experience as Lead Designer for Splitverse.
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