{"id":1052,"date":"2011-02-16T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-02-16T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:35:22","slug":"game-designer-job-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/02\/16\/game-designer-job-yes-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Game designer job. (yes really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not actually offering someone a *job*, job. It&#8217;s not a permanent thing. I&#8217;m looking for a contractor, just for a week. Even if I *did* have the work (and money) for a permanent employee, I wouldn&#8217;t do it. The UK insists on burdening employers with so much paperwork and bureaucracy it&#8217;s literally better to just not bother and stay a one-man business. Bah etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousspacebattles.com\">Gratuitous Space Battles<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>See the campaign add on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/gratuitousspacebattles\/galacticconquest.html\">Galactic Conquest<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>That campaign add-on has only ONE map. It&#8217;s fixed, every time, and people would prefer it to to have variety. Hence I want to have another 3 maps made that are different, and let the player choose from them. This will require some coding by me, which isn&#8217;t a lot, but it would involve a fair amount of editing, play testing and balancing, and I don&#8217;t have the time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>This is where my new padawan will come in.<\/p>\n<p>Basically I want someone to take the GSB campaign, and come up with 3 new maps, all new planet names, all new facility locations and anomaly locations, and a new network of connecting hyperspace doodahs. There is a debug editor, of sorts, built into the game (I&#8217;d get a debug copy to them) which is flaky as hell, because my tools suck, but I used it myself so it can&#8217;t be too bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s probably a full time job for a week. I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s worth <strong>$1,000<\/strong>. I know full time lead designers don&#8217;t work for that, but this is more of a junior designer\/tester thing anyway. Don&#8217;t shout at me, I&#8217;m only a frail humble indie :D<\/p>\n<p>This is who I need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone who speaks and types very good English. Language barriers can be hell.<\/li>\n<li>Someone over 18.\u00a0 This sounds horribly cruel, but it&#8217;s <strong>purely<\/strong> because if you are under 18, there are probably all kinds of horrific laws about employing a minor, and I don&#8217;t want angry parents suing me. Sorry about this&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A very keen gamer, likely someone who has played GSB and likes it, and plays a lot of strategy games. You will definitely have to be very familiar with how the game plays, and be reasonably good at it before starting to do this.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who has a free week coming up very soon (Feb\/March, really). I don&#8217;t want to leave it longer than that. I doubt it&#8217;s doable in evenings and weekends, but you can try and convince me otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>Someone professional , with a good eye for detail, organised and capable. I&#8217;m pretty sure I could talk people into doing this for free, I&#8217;m paying hard earned cash because I want a top notch job done that I can happily put my name to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this applies to you, please email me at <a href=\"mailto:cliff@positech.co.uk\">cliff@positech.co.uk<\/a>, with details about you. Any references or CV style stuff would be welcome, but not essential. if you are a game design student at some college or university, then maybe this is a good opportunity to wangle it into the course. If you are an unemployed game designer with pro experience, this is ideal for you. Don&#8217;t forget you can work from home, and 90% of the time you will just be fighting space battles, and checking it&#8217;s fun. There are worse jobs out there, trust me. Plus it looks good on CVs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pay the full amount by paypal or bank transfer on completion. You can trust me, I&#8217;ve been around decades, and employed dozens of people in similar ways. I always pay! There will be a contract\/NDA to sign, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>If you know anyone suitable, please tweet this to them, or whatever you hip kids do these days.<\/p>\n<p>BTW this will be a free update, not new DLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not actually offering someone a *job*, job. It&#8217;s not a permanent thing. I&#8217;m looking for a contractor, just for a week. Even if I *did* have the work (and money) for a permanent employee, I wouldn&#8217;t do it. The UK insists on burdening employers with so much paperwork and bureaucracy it&#8217;s literally better to<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Game designer job. 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