<div><strong>About the Role<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></div><ul><li>Work closely with the director and other team members to define gameplay system details and ensure successful feature execution.</li><li>Perform ongoing design to iterate on, improve, and flesh out the game design throughout the development process</li><li>Implement and tune systems, game designs, and experiences.</li><li>Be able to maintain high level documentation related to systems and features.</li><li>Utilize team feedback, data analysis, and user research feedback into clear actionable items to improve features and design processes.</li><li>Mentor the design team to grow their skill sets and capabilities</li><li>Establish and maintain best practices and processes for the design team, proactively improving how we do design</li><li>Provide input into defining creative vision and technical specifications. <strong>‍</strong></li></ul><div><br><strong>Required qualifications:</strong></div><ul><li>5-7 + years of Game Design experience.</li><li>Must have shipped at least 2 AA / AAA games as a Lead or Senior Game Designer role</li><li>Has experience in leading a multidisciplinary team</li><li>Deep knowledge of game systems and mechanics.</li><li>Basic understanding of player psychology and gaming motivations.</li><li>Ability to describe and break down gameplay components.</li><li>Creativity and strong sense of pacing.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Preferred qualifications:</strong></div><ul><li>Cooperative game design experience.</li><li>Experience in Unreal Engine 4 or 5 and Blueprint.</li><li>Proactive work ethic, creative problem-solver who is not afraid of big challenges.</li><li>Adept at working with multiple proprietary and technical systems/tools.</li><li>Love for games: Specifically, open-world, action-adventure titles, and cooperative games.</li><li>Passionate in bringing the messages of the Bible out in video game form.</li></ul><div><br><strong>What we offer:</strong></div><ul><li>A creative and inspiring work environment. Be part of an international team with highly qualified and dedicated colleagues.</li><li>Varied, challenging, and exciting tasks</li><li>Opportunities to influence decision-making</li><li>Strong potential for growth and development</li><li>Competitive employment conditions</li></ul><div><br><strong>About Bible X Studio</strong></div><div>Bible X is an exciting independent game studio founded in 2020 in Moss, Norway and staffed by experienced developers that have worked on titles such as Assassin’s Creed, GTA, PUBG, Red Dead Redemption/Revolver, Diablo 4, Killing Floor 1/2/3 and Maneater.<br><br></div><div>Having hit the Kickstarter goal of $324,000 in 72 hours while raising a total of over $331,726 by the end of the campaign and going on to now have raised over half of the $12.5M fundraising target with $6.5M raised so far, Bible X has proven the overwhelming interest in the Gate Zero game.<br><br></div><div><strong>Bible X’s mission is to bring the message of the Bible to life and make it accessible through immersive experiences.</strong> The team is composed of passionate game developers who strongly believe in the powerful medium of gaming and its role in engaging, educating, and inspiring youth today. We believe that there is a great need for innovation when it comes to conveying the Bible’s life-changing message to the younger generation and aim to develop high-quality, comprehensive products that can be used individually or in groups by anyone who wants to take the words of the Bible seriously.<br><br><strong>About the Game</strong></div><div><strong><em>Gate Zero</em></strong> is an open-world, single-player, third-person story driven adventure game with an innovative open playstyle that empowers gamers to tackle challenges <em>their</em> way. As Max, a teenager from a dystopian future transported back into the ancient past, players utilize their own mix of action, stealth, dialogue, unique tools and abilities to save the future and get back to their own time. &nbsp;</div>

Senior Game Designer

<div><strong>The Company<br></strong><br></div><div>At Servant Digital, we specialize in empowering leaders and organizations within faith communities through innovative digital transformation and change management solutions. We are committed to providing tailored strategies that align with our clients' values and missions, focusing on service, integrity, and excellence. Our team is passionate about making a meaningful impact by equipping our partners with the tools and technologies they need to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Join us in our mission<br><br></div><div><strong>The Role<br></strong><br></div><div>We are seeking an innovative Emotive Data Visualization Animator who brings data to life through dynamic, emotionally resonant animations. This role will bridge the gap between data, storytelling, and animation, turning raw numbers into compelling, impactful narratives that engage and inform audiences on a deeper level. The ideal candidate combines expertise in animation with strong coding skills and a keen understanding of data visualization to create interactive and expressive data experiences.<br><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities:<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>Transform Data into Visual Narratives: </strong>Design animated data visualizations that not only inform but also evoke a desired emotional response in line with key project objectives.<br><br></div><div><strong>Collaborate on Storyboarding and Scripting: </strong>Partner with data analysts, content creators, and design teams to storyboard and map out engaging data-driven animations that tell a clear and impactful story.<br><br></div><div><strong>Code Interactive and Dynamic Visualizations:</strong> Leverage libraries like D3.js, Three.js, and p5.js to build animations that work responsively on the web and offer interactivity.<br><br></div><div><strong>Develop and Test Animated Data Visualizations: </strong>Use coding languages such as JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and SVG animation, ensuring high performance and visual appeal across devices.<br><br></div><div><strong>Animate Using Advanced Tools:</strong> Utilize Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, and/or WebGL for complex animations and 3D data visualizations.<br><br></div><div><strong>Audience-Centric Design</strong>: Use insights into audience psychology and emotional triggers to create visualizations that maximize engagement and relatability.<br><br></div><div><strong>Optimize for Web:</strong> Ensure animations are optimized for web performance, balancing visual quality with efficiency for a seamless user experience.<br><br></div><div><strong>Qualifications:</strong></div><ul><li>Education: Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Animation, Graphic Design, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).</li><li>Experience: 10+ years in data visualization, animation, or interactive design, with a portfolio showcasing emotive, data-driven animations.</li><li>Technical Skills:<ul><li>Proficiency in JavaScript, including libraries like D3.js, Three.js, and p5.js for interactive animations.</li><li>Strong command of HTML/CSS and SVG Animation.</li><li>Experience with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, or WebGL for complex visualizations.</li><li>Familiarity with Python or R for data preparation is a plus.</li><li>Creative Skills: Skilled in storyboarding, visual storytelling, and understanding of design principles related to color, typography, and animation timing.</li></ul></li><li>Ability to interpret data and identify key trends, as well as understanding audience psychology to enhance engagement.</li><li>Experience working remotely.</li><li>Prior consulting experience preferred.</li></ul><div><br>At Servant, we believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.</div>

Emotive Data Visualization Animator

<div><strong>Gate Zero – Project Description</strong></div><div>We are producing Gate Zero – an open-world adventure game set in the fascinating time of Jesus’ life. The game, based in ancient Israel, will be an immersive and innovative way to discover and learn about the Bible’s history and its revolutionary message. We’re seeking a talented Senior Environment Artist to join our creative, animated, and driven team.<br><br><strong>The Role:</strong> As a Senior Environment Artist you are passionate about crafting beautiful realistic assets and bringing them together to build amazing worlds for our players to explore. You have an eye for scale, perspective and detail, and love to get stuck into research to ensure the accuracy of props, buildings and external environments.<br><br></div><div>As a Senior Artist you are passionate about your craft, and thrive on mentoring less experienced team members, giving constructive feedback through peer review sessions to enable their growth and development. To you, it’s the opportunity to work on something new and exciting, a project that piques your interest and pushes your boundaries. You’re the kind of person who understands the importance of collaboration and clear communication. You enjoy seeing your contribution to the bigger picture and relish the opportunity to share your knowledge with your peers and mentor junior members of your team.<br><br></div><div>As a Senior Environment Artist, you will play an integral part in building a brand new world for an exciting new IP, communicating the project’s vision through tone and style inspired by the project’s narrative and design.<br><br></div><div><strong>Job Overview:</strong> The Senior Environment Artist is responsible for creating, modeling, and texturing a variety of environmental settings for video games, films, and other 3D media projects. This position requires exceptional artistic ability and technical expertise in areas such as lighting, composition, and 3D modeling software.<br><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></div><ul><li>Create detailed 3D environmental models using programs such as Maya, Blender or 3DS Max</li><li>Texture models with realistic and stylized textures using Substance Painter or Photoshop</li><li>Collaborate with game designers and level designers to create cohesive and immersive environments</li><li>Implement assets into game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity</li><li>Ensure that all assets meet the technical and artistic requirements of the project</li><li>Develop the environment in a modular way.</li><li>Optimize assets for performance and memory usage</li><li>Stay up-to-date with new technology and techniques in environment art</li></ul><div><br><strong>Required Skills:</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years of professional experience as an Environmental Artist</li><li>Experience with 3D modeling and texturing software such as Maya, 3DS Max, Substance Painter, or Photoshop</li><li>Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment</li><li>Strong creative and problem-solving skills</li><li>Understanding of game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li><li>Modeling</li><li>Creating Textures and applying them to the 3D models in a modular/reusable ways.</li><li>A great artistic eye. Knowing what “makes a scene”</li><li>A firm understanding of architectural elements, environments, and props</li><li>The ability to take a blockout from Level Designers and turn into a fully lit/crafted level</li><li>The ability to be detail-oriented, while also seeing the bigger picture</li><li>Excellent at problem-solving</li></ul><div><br><strong>Beneficial skills:</strong></div><ul><li>Shader Scripting (Visual)</li><li>Lighting</li><li>Lookdev</li><li>Sculpting</li><li>Matte painting</li></ul><div><br><strong>Technology we use</strong></div><ul><li>Unreal Engine</li><li>Blender</li><li>Autodesk Maya</li><li>Autodesk 3ds Max</li><li>Substance Painter</li><li>Substance Designer</li><li>ZBrush</li><li>Adobe Photoshop</li></ul><div><br><strong>What we offer</strong></div><ul><li>Creative and inspiring work environment. Be part of an international team with highly qualified and dedicated colleagues.</li><li>Varied, challenging and exciting work tasks</li><li>Influence in decision-making</li><li>Good opportunities for growth and development</li><li>Competitive employment conditions</li></ul><div><br><em>Please note that only candidates whose qualifications closely match the requirements of the position will be contacted for further consideration. We appreciate your understanding and interest in joining our team.</em></div>

Senior Environment Artist

<div><strong>Job type</strong>: Permanent</div><div><strong>Location</strong>: Remote</div><div><strong>Experience level</strong>: Senior</div><div><strong>Role</strong>: Front-End Web Developer</div><div><strong>Industry</strong>: Enterprise, non-profit charity</div><div><strong>Salary:</strong> $107,412.98 - $178,259.84 (typically $110,000 - $160,548.13). DOE.</div><div><strong>Company size</strong>: 1,000+</div><div><br>We are looking for a talented and motivated front-end developer / design technologist who has a passion for design and software and will take our websites and web apps to the next level. As a Senior Design Technologist on our Front-end dev team, you will work directly with designers and product managers to develop high-quality, interactive digital experiences that delight our donors. As a developer for World Vision, you are building the tools that will lead to a better life for thousands of children in the most vulnerable places around the world. At World Vision we are going to the ends of the earth, often where no one else goes, to pull up the roots of poverty and plant the seeds of change. Help us carry out our Christian organization's mission, vision, and strategies by building customer-facing websites, web apps, and other digital properties.</div><div><br><strong>What You Will Do</strong></div><ul><li>Deliver working software to millions of users.</li><li>Write high-quality, immersive, and interactive software experiences in technologies like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 with animation libraries/APIs such as Lottie, GreenSock (GSAP), VelocityJS, Adobe After Effects, or WebGL.<ul><li>WordPress, Gutenberg, React, and PHP experience a huge plus.</li></ul></li><li>Implement Scrollytelling on our marketing pages with smooth motion.</li><li>Use your eye for design to provide recommendations to the Design Team.</li><li>Write complex animations as well as micro animations for our web apps.</li><li>Collaborate and partner with the Product Design Team through Design Sprints, ensuring designs are not only visually appealing but also feasible, efficient, and optimized for performance.</li><li>Iterate rapidly on In-Market Prototypes.</li><li>Create, develop, and maintain code-aspects of our Design System.</li><li>Collaborate with QA team, full-stack Apps team, and digital solutions team.</li><li>Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (e.g. Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and <strong>leadership of devotions</strong>).</li></ul><div><br><strong>Who You’ll Work With</strong></div><ul><li>Product Managers and UX designers envisioning excellent user experiences.</li><li>Full-stack developers on the Apps team.</li><li>QA testers.</li><li>Delivery Ops who manages all support, maintenance, and on-call duties.</li><li>Technical Program Managers who will help identify and break down work.</li><li>API developers on our backend enterprise Web Services team.</li><li>Architects of various aspects of our system.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Required Experience</strong></div><ul><li>A portfolio of front-end design implementations.</li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent, relevant work experience (four years).</li><li>In addition to education or education equivalent, requires 5-8 years of work experience in web software development.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills.</li><li>Excellent eye for design.</li><li>Expertise in interactive and immersive web experience with animations, micro-animations, and mobile rendering.</li><li>Expertise working with a team of developers in the same codebase.</li><li>Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.</li><li>Familiar with Figma and other design tools.</li><li>Familiar with Agile/Scrum and Kanban methodologies.</li><li>Experience launching consumer-facing software solutions.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Salary Range &amp; Benefits</strong></div><div>Your compensation and benefits are important to you so they’re important to us. The salary range for this role is $107,412.98 - $178,259.84. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. HQ in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $110,000 - $160,548.13. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. World Vision employees see our <em>Salary Administration Guidelines</em> and <em>My Life My Benefits</em> pages on our organization intranet known as The Vine. Please indicate the range you're targeting when asked during the application process. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package.</div>

Senior Design Technologist

<div><strong>Gate Zero – Project Description</strong></div><div>We are producing Gate Zero – an open world adventure game set in the fascinating time of Jesus’ life. The game, based in ancient Israel, will be an immersive and innovative way to discover and learn about the Bible’s history and its revolutionary message. We are looking for a capable and passionate Senior Designer to join our creative, animated and driven team.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></div><ul><li>Work closely with the director and other team members to detail the specifics of gameplay systems and to ensure successful feature execution.&nbsp;</li><li>Perform ongoing design to iterate on, improve, and flesh out the game design throughout the development process</li><li>Implement and tune systems, game designs, and experiences.</li><li>Be able to maintain high level documentation related to systems and features.&nbsp;</li><li>Utilize team feedback, data analysis, and user research feedback into clear actionable items to improve features and design processes.&nbsp;</li><li>Mentor the design team to grow their skill sets and capabilities&nbsp;</li><li>Establish and maintain best practices and processes for the design team, proactively improving how we do design&nbsp;</li><li>Provide input into defining creative vision and technical specifications. <strong>‍</strong>&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Requirements</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years Game Design experience.&nbsp;</li><li>Must have shipped at least 2 AA / AAA games as a Lead or Senior Game Designer role&nbsp;</li><li>Has experience in leading a multidisciplinary team</li><li>Deep knowledge of game systems and mechanics.&nbsp;</li><li>Basic understanding of player psychology and gaming motivations.&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to describe and break down gameplay components.&nbsp;</li><li>Creativity and strong sense of pacing.&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. <strong>&nbsp;</strong></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Beneficial skills:</strong></div><ul><li>Cooperative game design experience.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in Unreal Engine 4 or 5 and Blueprint.&nbsp;</li><li>Proactive work ethic, creative problem-solver who is not afraid of big challenges.&nbsp;</li><li>Adept at working with multiple proprietary and technical systems/tools.&nbsp;</li><li>Love of games: Specifically, open world and RPG titles as well as cooperative games.&nbsp;</li><li>Passionate in bringing the messages of the Bible out in video game form.</li></ul>

Lead Game Designer

<div><strong>Project Description</strong></div><div>We are producing Gate Zero – an open world adventure game set in the fascinating time of Jesus’ life. The game, based in ancient Israel, will be an immersive and innovative way to discover and learn about the Bible’s history and its revolutionary message. We are seeking a Lead Programmer to be responsible for the technical aspect and the development of Gate Zero.<br><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></div><ul><li>Lead the team of programmers and manage their daily tasks</li><li>Collaborate with a distributed engineering team in multiple locations</li><li>Develop, optimize, and maintain systems across both client and server</li><li>Stay updated on gaming trends and advancements to inform development decisions</li><li>Ensure the engineering team works within the constraints of the existing game engine to meet performance, quality and maintainability benchmarks</li><li>Pro-actively address issues blocking the team, providing them with the tools to work effectively</li><li>Write code alongside your team members</li><li>Mentor, oversee and support the career growth and well-being of direct reports</li></ul><div><br><strong>Qualifications required</strong></div><ul><li>7+ years game programming experience. Must have shipped at least 2 AA / AAA games as a Lead Programmer</li><li>Good command of C++ programming, including refactoring, optimization, debugging and testing</li><li>Unreal Engine specific experience and expertise in framework and code / data architecture using Unreal Engines best practices</li><li>Experience in one or more video game engineering specialties (Gameplay, Engine, UI, Rendering, Tools, Networking, etc… )</li><li>Experience mentoring or managing engineers</li><li>An understanding of video game production with the ability to see the perspective of other professionals involved in production</li><li>Autonomous, problem-solving, and open-minded attitude</li><li>Good communication skills, ability &amp; desire to work as a team player</li><li>A calm demeanour when facing challenging situations (you know a solution is always at hand)</li><li>Impeccable strategic leadership skills</li></ul><div><br><strong>Preferred:</strong></div><ul><li>Love of games: Specifically, open world and RPG titles as well as cooperative games</li><li>Passionate in bringing the messages of the Bible out in video game form</li></ul><div><br><strong>What we offer</strong></div><ul><li>Creative and inspiring work environment. Be a part of an international team with highly qualified and dedicated colleagues.</li><li>Varied, challenging and exciting work tasks</li><li>Influence in decision-making</li><li>Good opportunities for growth and development</li><li>Competitive employment conditions</li></ul><div><br><strong>Required application materials:&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Resume/CV</li><li>Cover Letter explaining why you are interested in working for Bible X</li></ul><div><br><em>If you are a good fit, a follow-up email will be sent your way.&nbsp; As part of the recruitment process, you may be asked to perform a test.</em></div>

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