Hiring a Metaplace content developer!

 Posted by (Visited 5561 times)  Gamemaking
Jan 152008
 

This is a fun job, and you don’t often see one posted like this. 🙂 If the below is you, drop us an email at jobs (at) areae.net!

Areae is on a mission to revolutionize virtual worlds and MMOs. We’re a venture-backed company in beautiful San Diego, and our investors share our passion and vision for the future of online gaming. Our core team includes veteran MMO developers with deep experience from online leaders like EA, Sony Online, and NC Soft, and we have developed and launched some of the world’s most successful online games to date including Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies and EQ2. We are currently looking for a Content Developer to join our team and help develop the next generation of online gaming.

The successful candidate will assist in the design and development of new content using the Metaplace platform, support of customer technical queries via the forums and direct chat, documentation of the toolset and scripting language on the public Wiki. She or he will also assist developers in the identification and analysis of toolset issues. The position requires 1+ years experience in Lua or object-oriented programming, familiarity with principles of game and user interface design, and the flexibility to adapt to daily changes in the development environment. Prior experience with Game Design or Quality Assurance in a production environment is a plus.

Web-based VW news round-up

 Posted by (Visited 9475 times)  Game talk
Jan 142008
 

A lot of stuff has been moving on this front lately, so here’s some recent notable news. I know that some of the gamer typs who read here aren’t that interested, but the crossover is increasing at a rapid rate. 🙂

  • 3dXplorer has been released. It’s a Java-based system for embedding 3d spaces in a window on your webpage. Looks like it is single-player, like many of these solutions, but the 3d scene is hosted on their hardware, so there’s a service model underlying it (get lots of users, start paying). My thoughts: there’s likely a significant market for the embedding of single-user walkthroughs and 3d object representations, and several companies seem to be chasing this market or even already have offerings (such as Media Machines‘ Flux Player). But although the step from there to adding basic multiuser capability isn’t huge, the step of adding interesting multiuser interactivity is quite difficult.

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