Seismic Squirrel

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Seismic Squirrel is a company that has created a narrative-driven role-playing game set in a retro-futuristic alternate history of New York City in 1939. The game features a world transformed by the discovery of Aether, a substance that has revolutionized technology, particularly with anti-gravitational implications. Players take on the role of Gia, a smuggler navigating a city rife with secret societies, corrupt politics, and ambitious gangsters. The game includes turn-based tactical combat, vehicle customization, and a deep narrative where choices matter. Players can recruit and form crews, customize vehicles, and engage in strategic combat and smuggling operations.

• Design gameplay, systems, mechanics, maps, and levels for narrative-driven RPG videogames
• Guide the design of gameplay systems and mechanics, including unit balancing and in-game economy
• Design and implement game levels and missions, including mission objectives and level layouts
• Support integration of art and narrative assets in Unity
• Preside over design meetings and document game designs and requirements
• Collaborate with development, engineering, writing, art, testing, and management teams
• Communicate needed mechanics to Engineering
• Maintain outstanding UX quality and champion intuitive onboarding experiences
• Participate in internal game testing and feedback
• Communicate progress and problems, define deliverables, and help set project timelines and expectations
• Identify and resolve user experience issues
• Identify analytics instrumentation opportunities and interpret analytics data to improve UX
• Work during core hours of 9:30 AM–4:30 PM Pacific and attend relevant team meetings
• Collaborate with international partners during occasional late evenings, nights, or early mornings
• Occasional travel may be expected

Senior Videogame Designer

Senior Videogame Designer shaping gameplay, systems, mechanics, levels, and UX for Seismic Squirrel’s narrative-driven RPGs. Collaborating remotely across design, engineering, art, writing, and testing teams.

3d-artist

• Create and integrate 2D artwork, including layers, transparency, and parallax effects
• Create and integrate 3D models, vehicles, environment objects, props, and textures
• Create and integrate 2D and 3D VFX, materials, shaders, and animations
• Handle cameras, lighting, reflections, set dressing, particles, surfaces, rigging, and physics
• Optimize and profile visual elements for suitable frame rates and load times
• Provide visual solutions for challenging art requirements and prototype new visual concepts
• Collaborate with art and narrative teams to align artwork with the game's visual design and themes
• Troubleshoot art problems within videogames
• Mentor artists developing their technical art skills
• Explain technical art concerns to the development team
• Collaborate across the development team, communicating progress and problems and helping set realistic timelines and expectations
• Participate in internal game testing and provide artistic feedback
• Create and maintain core technical documentation
• Balance and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines, agreed timeframes, and budgets

Senior Unity Technical Artist

Senior Unity Technical Artist creating and integrating 2D/3D assets, VFX, shaders, and animations for Seismic Squirrel’s narrative RPG videogames.
Optimizing visuals, solving art challenges, and collaborating remotely across development teams.

qa-engineer

• Test videogames for bugs and other quality deficiencies, supporting QA processes
• Validate enhancements and bug fixes
• Research and champion tools and processes that contribute to product quality
• Evaluate each sprint's build for quality regression
• Test games on various hardware and platforms
• Participate in developing, organizing, and executing Test Plans and Test Cases
• Create and contribute to product quality reports
• Represent the customer as an advocate for quality and value
• Provide feedback and creative solutions across design, programming, narrative, art, and audio
• Collaborate with the development team on progress and problems, timelines, and expectations
• Assist with internal and external testing efforts
• Balance and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines, timeframes, and budgets
• Attend relevant team meetings, including daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint planning, and showcase meetings

Senior Videogame Tester

Senior videogame tester validating narrative RPG quality for Seismic Squirrel. Testing builds, fixes, hardware, and platforms while supporting QA processes and development teams.

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