Welcome to the career page!
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Project Morningstar is an upcoming RPG/Colony Simulator hybrid. We are currently 3 coders, two 2D/3D artists, and musician. There are 5 positions open at this time.
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Apart from building a game, support staff are always necessary to running a small business. Currently all our accounting and legal are handled on a contract basis. But if you would like to help us file taxes, manage employee contracts, and handle misc tasks like convention booth managers and PAs on live shoots, apply here!
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If you are looking for a job, go ahead and send us a message on Discord or Twitter. While we may not have a position open sometimes we know someone who does.
Radian Helix Media has been working on Project Morningstar, our Isometric 2D Colony-Sim/RPG Hybrid since 2020. We went through a pre-production period until April 2022 where we established self-funded venture capital and began hiring staff to develop the game. We are now deep into production and have a good thing going. We need additional staff to flesh out the following roles:
- [Full Time] Unity Generalist Programmer for UI/UX Juicing and Window Management, Batching, Performance – take over most UI/UX duties from our programmers while our designers continue contributing layouts, and programmers offer complex features that requires UI to communicate events & opportunities to the player. After UI/UX, assisting us with additional batching and general performance concerns, you’d be transitioning into a general role to continue to develop of additional features, leading up to release prep.
- [Full Time] Unity Game Developer to help with features of the week and various new features to implement, juice, and improve the overall game experience with additional small touch features, reactivity, and develop our Creatures’ AI behaviors & routines. This is very much a job where the architecture is well developed and commented, but very complex, and we need additional devs to take on specific tasks as the game fleshes out novel experiences within the existing framework, expanding content, balancing new features, and providing relief for other devs up to release. We need someone to say, “yes I can take that off your plate,” and execute on it with art & content from our very eager designers.
- [Short Term] Animating, Rigging, and 3D Lowpoly Generalist, helping flesh out Creature Animations and 3D Models. As long as our artists have UVs, we can hand paint creatures in our style. The list of creatures is not extensive, and many are already finished & rigged. This job isn’t technically super demanding, but there are interesting challenges in the diversity of these creatures and their abilities, and a lot of it.
- [Short Term] A Visual Effects Artist with Shader Programing Experience for weather effects, explosions, particles, etc. We do need quite a few, but the list is finite. Job could last up to a year or more to release. Setting up highly efficient FX for destruction on a mass scale where modular sections of walls can be blown p dozens at a time, as well as some advanced shader needs our staff currently requires.
- [Short Term] A Sound Effects Designer & Programmer to do Foley FX and Ambient Sound, and Implement these in an FMOD Sound environment. The required audio effects are extensive, but finite. You’d be getting the audio system set up to handle character injuries and working effects, walking, fighting, impacts, and ambient audio effects for zooming distance camera effects, interior/exterior audio effects, etc.
- [One Off Task] 2D/3D Artist for Main Menu Screen to help flesh out our Splash Screen and Main Menu Scene. This is a once and done task where after it is complete, we may have additional art work unrelated to the Main Menu if desired, but otherwise it is done.
To submit, fill out the form below with your name, date, the position you’re applying for using the bolded text above, and links to your online portfolio, website, past projects, and CV. Please note you are not guaranteed a response, especially if applying for a role that does not exist.
Mission Statement
Radian-Helix Media, llc is an equal opportunity employer
Anyone has a chance to work here, regardless of race, sex, gender, class, or cultural background.
When we take your application, our decision to hire you or not follows all state and federal guidelines in the US. Our primary focus will always be on your merits and character, not on where you were born or events that happened to you outside your choice to control. Everyone deserves an equal opportunity to compete with their peers. If you qualify for a role, we can work around disabilities or impairments, and will seek to will make reasonable efforts to accommodate those issues.
Our primary filters search for:
Age — you must be over 18 and legal to work in the US, or remotely from a territory outside the US.
Education — did you complete high-school, acquire a GED, or not? If not, why not? GED is no reason to disqualify.
Extracurriculars — we don’t care if you graduated college or not. What did you do with it? What mods did you make? Created any hobby indie games? What Clubs and Organizations did you participate in or help found? A degree is worthless without applied, completed, projects. Show us your work!
Self-education — we’d love to see any academic research papers you’ve co-authored, blog posts you wrote, YouTube tutorials uploaded, or dev live streams you do. The ability to show your work, solve a problem yourself, create novel solutions to novel problems, and then share that knowledge with others in the community are a top priority for us.
Creativity — how have you used your skills across disciplines? Are you also an artist? A business owner? An investor? Creativity isn’t just about producing a visually interesting product, but making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. Artists who code, or coders who do UX, or businessfolk who open up roads to underserved and untapped communities, are of greater value to us than simply following the book written by others.
Personal Character — do you lead with compassion, understanding, and curiosity? Or do you start with insults, aggression, and disappointment? We’re looking for someone who is persevering, honest at the first opportunity, shows concern for others, and refuses to be fatigued by problems. We are problem solvers. Nothing is so bad it can’t have some use, and nothing so perfect it can’t uncover some flaw.
“What’s good for the project is what’s good for me,” is often repeated here, and we’re serious about that.
Some may outrank us in seniority, but no one is more important than anyone else. Not the janitor, not the ceo. Mental health is involuntary, but not showing up on time, failing to meet deadlines, and disrespecting others is a choice. While we are serious in our commitment to accommodating mental health issues, we expect to see some level of self-motivation to overcome them on your own before we start work together.
Following Instructions — sometimes, the design document misses a step. Sometimes the team lead leaves out an important piece of information. Did you read the instructions and follow the format? The first step is to follow the letter of the instructions. If you can’t do that, you will not qualify. The next is to find problems and offer solutions. This is an important hint for your submitted application. Please take notice.
Be honest. Be fearless. Stay curious.
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