Programmer job

Insert Catchy Logo Here Studios is currently working on the development of The Dragonwars of Nardan, an epic-fantasy, upgrade-heavy, semi-bullet-hell shmup for PC (and potentially consoles as well) where you play as the last free Dragon fighting to save your people and destroy those who enslaved them as living weapons of mass destruction.

The only two members of the team are both primarily designers and artists, with little to no experience programming. Up ‘til now, we’ve been using Stencyl, an excellent and versatile coding-free game making tool, but it has some severe limitations with the bullet-hell genre (lots of objects on screen can really eat up the frame rate, so it’s not ideal) and still is a lot of work for people who don’t easily think like programmers (such as either of us).

So we are currently looking for a programmer(s) to help us build the actual game. To this end we are preparing a Kickstarter to fund the hiring of additional team members, so we can only promise payment in the event of a successful campaign. (But being interested or willing to join even if the KS doesn’t succeed is a major plus, as it means we’d at least still be able to make the game).

Being a pixel-art bullet-hell game, it needs to support hundreds of bullets on screen at once without any lag/slowdown with pixel precise collision detection at high speeds, it requires some moderately complicated animation systems, and some online features like leaderboards. Experience and ability with Unity would be very good for the potential console versions (particularly the Wii U, as that is the main priority among them) if the kickstarter allows. Additional pixel-art skills (particularly working with color and texture) or music/sound design skills would be helpful, but not at all a requirement.

Thanks for your time,

Nathan Megill,
Insert Catchy Logo Here Studios.

To Apply

Contact us at iclhstudios@gmail.com if you're interested.