We are seeking pure talent:

Coders, Artists and Tech Artists

We're hiring the best of the best to work on Star Chart. You'll need to have a brilliant mind, a great attitude and a desire to blow people away with the products you work on.

 

Your personality and potential are more important than your exact skill set, but you must have a passion for games and new tech, as well as a desire to innovate and excel in everything you do.

 

If the thrill of working hard to ship great content on new tech to millions of people gets you excited, then Escapist Games may well be just the right place for you.

 

We recommend that you consider sending us some work along with an interesting cover letter and short CV to:

[UK work permit required.]

 

How to apply:

Product before Team... Team before Ego...

We consider a great hire, someone who...

 

Understands that no matter how talented they are, the team and product comes first

Is a humble genius in their field, but enjoys talking to mortal man

Will do whatever is required to make the product better

Gets that doing things quick and dirty is essential

Knows that doing something right first time leads to success

Is ok with the fact that the above two lines could be considered contradictory

Isn't scared of overtime if required

Will work with whatever tech and hardware as required

More than anything else, is thrilled to contribute to a product MILLIONS of people love

We're interested in seeing what you can create

Send us a link to something you have coded yourself. It can be very small, but must be cool, fun, clever and or useful. If you really want to blow us away, consider writing a small piece of code that relates to Star Chart. For example, a prototype of a feature you would want to see added to the experience.

Don't be shy to call out any skills you have in the following areas:

Experience with Unity / Unreal

C#, C++ & Objective C

Rendering and optimisation

Server and web code

Tools and pipelines

Tech art / 3D art / design skills

Dynamically generated content

Tech Artists: Solve something complex

Show or describe how you yourself would solve (or work with a coder to solve) one of the following real challenges we face in the development of Star Chart:

Dynamic star generation - think Hertzsprung-Russell range of stars

Dynamic planet generation - think for exo-planet viewer

High resolution planet Earth as seen from ISS (on mobile!)

A (dynamic?) Gas giant cloud flow map at high detail level with height map

Seemless transition between browse / search menu and in-app experience (in VR!)

3D Messier Objects and / or NGC catalog (think nebula)

How you would go about making constellations come 'alive'

Creating a galaxy, asteroid belt and / or ring system (think Saturn's rings)

A 'planetary cross section' view

Alternatively, you are welcome to design a new feature and show us how you would solve the artistic problems that would arise from having to implement your feature.

Create something beautiful

3D & UI artists are welcome to apply. We are looking for artists who want to create beautiful experiences on cutting edge hardware. The success of Star Chart is related to our ability to merge beautiful art and interesting data with hardware that allows users to experience something in a new way. Our planets are based on real data from NASA while our constellations bring a magical element to the night sky. This mixed with clear, simple and slick UI lets consumers explore space while learning through immersion.

To be hired at Escapist Games, all we ask is that you blow us away with one or more of the following:

A stunning 3D model of a planet, moon, satellite, star, nebula or comet you've created yourself.

UI mockup for a data rich view of an object in Star Chart. Consider that it must work on mobile, desktop & VR!