Senior Gameplay Engineer, Big Time Studios
Gaming studio integrating NFTs
Job no longer available
Gaming studio integrating NFTs
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of game development experience
- Shipped at least one high-quality AAA game for PC or Console
- Strong programming background and C++ knowledge
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Unreal Engine 4 experience
- Hands-on experience with gameplay systems like AI, Animation, Combat and Missions
- Experience profiling and optimizing game performance
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders
- Must love games!
Desirable
- Experience with MMO or Action RPG game development
- Experience with procedural world and dungeon generation algorithms
- Experience working on a distributed team spread across several time zones
What the job involves
- As a world-class Gameplay Engineer, you will join a small, fully remote team and work on an exciting (unannounced) Multiplayer, Action RPG title
- Working on Gameplay at BTS, you will interact closely with Designers, Artists, and other Engineers to Architect and implement gameplay systems throughout the game
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have become a popular commodity, and Big Time Studios is bringing them into the world of gaming. The company is developing the world’s first action game based on crypto technology, with the view to making NFTs accessible to a mass-market audience.
The company is creating technology that other gaming companies will be able to deploy but, in order to get to market and prove the concept, the studio is developing the first game of this kind, "Big Time". The title is an action role-playing game in which players acquire and trade NFT-based items, that has industry veterans from studios such as EpicGames and Blizzard on board for development.
With the ultimate goal of becoming the gold standard for what NFTs and crypto can offer gamers, the company was both well-regarded and anticipated in the community. Unfortunately, rather than invest the capital it raised from this anticipation into growth, the company invested in high-risk crypto lender Genesis, which has since become embroiled in the FTX scandal and filed for bankruptcy.
Despite the rather large setback, it is entirely possible that Big Time Studios still had a sizable runway yielded from the crypto boom, and only time will tell if the company manages to progress beyond this. For now, "Big Time" remains in closed Beta, only accessible to players holding NFT passes, and there is no way to tell when new news of the project will be announced.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$10.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.3m
Company benefits
- Fully remote work
- Yearly company offsite
- Flexible PTO
- Experience creating a new IP with franchise potential
- Experience working with gaming veterans of game titles with a gross aggregate revenue well over $10B USD
Company HQ
Historic Core, Los Angeles, CA
Founders
Ari Meilich
(CEO)Previously co-founded Benchrise. Served as a Project Lead for Decentraland, acting now as an Advisor. Experience in Neuroscience Research for Brown University, New York University, and as a Market Research Analyst for CRV.
Thor Alexander
(President & Executive Producer)Previously founded Lucky Puppy, acting as CEO, and MMP Game Development, serving here as an Editor. Experience as Vice President of Production for Decentraland, Executive Producer for Zynga, Director of Product Management for Metaplace, and Development Director of Electronic Arts (EA).
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