Spry Fox Making Happiness

NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for this position.

We’re looking for a writer who will work alongside our studio’s leadership to flesh out the narrative and write the characters for one of our upcoming nonviolent games. Like Cozy Grove, the story of this new game will be a critical part of what makes it memorable and impactful. And like Cozy Grove, this game will serve a wide audience that includes adults of all ages, and our narrative will not shy away from challenging topics.

For this position, we are requiring that candidates have written for at least one shipped, commercial video game or tabletop game, and preferably more. This is not a junior position.

We welcome candidates from anywhere in the Americas, Europe and Africa (timezone-wise, these locations have proven workable for our studio in the past.) Please note that our studio’s “core hours” are 10am to 2pm Pacific Time, so if you’re based in Europe or Africa, working for several hours during your evening will be a requirement of this position.

NOTE: This position has been filled. We are no longer hiring.

We’re looking for a Environment Artist who can create vibrant and clean environment assets for a 3rd person, non-violent MMO. You’ll be responsible for creating models and materials for props, buildings, and world assets.

Responsibilities:

• Authoring high quality, appealing environment models for use in a procedurally generated and modularly built world
• Collaborating with Art Direction to work on cel-shaded, non-PBR assets. A willingness to work with texturing techniques not standard to the industry
• Implementing your assets into UE4
• Working with Art Lead to help identify necessary workflow and pipeline improvements
• Working with designers and developers on a small team to make sure a breadth of content is optimized for performance on multiple platforms

NOTE: This position has been filled. We are no longer hiring.

We’re looking for a Character Artist who can create vibrant and clean character assets for a 3rd person, non-violent MMO. You’ll be responsible for creating models and materials for player characters, their clothing, wildlife, and creatures for a pro-social, stylized, multiplayer game.

Responsibilities:

• Authoring character models for customizable avatars, clothing, NPCs, and creatures both mundane and imaginative
• Collaborating with Art Direction to work on cel-shaded, non-PBR assets.
• Implementing your asset into UE4.
• Working with Art Lead to help identify necessary workflow and pipeline improvements.
• Working with Animators and developers on a relatively small team (for an MMO) to make sure that content is optimized for performance on multiple platforms.

NOTE: This position has been filled. We are no longer hiring.

Spry Fox is looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to help us build a non-violent MMO.

Spry Fox is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us work on a new, original game!

We’re looking for a highly skilled Unreal Shader Technical Artist that can bridge the gap between Art and Engineering. This is a key role in developing the unique artistic style of our game. Extensive knowledge of shading, lighting, rendering, and post processing is required, as well as a strong understanding of the 3D-graphics pipeline and a keen eye for aesthetics and best art practices.

Spry Fox is looking for a 3D Art Lead to help us work on a new, original game — a stylized, joyful and non-violent MMO project!

Our 3d Art Lead will be a key role, bridging the gap between Engineering, Design and Art. We are looking for a talented, multi-disciplinary 3d artist who loves to dive into the organizational and technical side of things, and strives to find systemic and scalable solutions to keep the team moving. You will establish and maintain our art pipelines and processes while helping drive key visuals in the game. You will need to be very comfortable with all the technical and creative aspects of art production.

Spry Fox is looking for an Engineering Lead to help us work on a new, original game!

Spry Fox is looking for a 2D animator to help us work on a new, original game. We expect to have at least six months of full-time work for whoever accepts this position; possibly much more. (more…)

Spry Fox is looking for an Art Director / Concept Artist to help us work on a new, original game. (more…)

Spry Fox is looking for a senior engineer, experienced with C++ (and ideally with Unreal 4 as well) to help us work on a new, original game. (more…)

If you’ve ever wondered who Spry Fox is, why we do what we do, and what inspired us to make Steambirds Alliance, there is a delightful (short) documentary video you can now watch on that very subject. 🙂

By the way, if you like this video, the wonderful person who made it – Russ Pitts – is doing a Kickstarter to fund more videos of this sort! Please consider supporting Russ, he’s a real treasure.