Technical Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
Tripledot is a leading independent mobile games company seeking a Technical Artist to join their Creative department. The role involves maintaining a high degree of polish and quality across all games, ensuring they look and feel fantastic. Responsibilities include designing and implementing the Unity layer to connect art and animation with the game's codebase, constructing games within Unity, writing custom C# components, optimizing games for various mobile devices, creating animations, particle effects, and shaders, and supporting game artists with technical issues. The ideal candidate will have expertise in the Unity engine and Unity UI, experience with different game development architectural approaches in Unity, the ability to write clean C# code, a proactive problem-solving approach, and experience collaborating with programmers.
Must have:
- Expertise in Unity engine and Unity UI
- Experience with Unity architectural approaches
- Ability to write clean C# code
- Proactive problem-solving
- Experience working with programmers
- Professional-level English
Good to have:
- Understand mobile game visual trends
- Create beautiful, market-quality art
- Optimize unoptimized assets
Perks:
- 25 days holiday
- 20 days fully remote working
- Regular company events and rewards
- Private Medical Cover
- Life & Critical Illness Cover
- Family Forming Support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sport Compensation
- Meal and Transport Vouchers
- English & Spanish Classes
- Continuous Professional Development
7 skills required
Job Details
Technical Artist
Department: Creative
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Barcelona, ES
Description
Who are we?
Tripledot is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.
We are a multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.
Our expanded portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users.
Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.
We’re building a company we’re proud of – one filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games.
Our ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world, and we’re just getting started.
Tripledot Games
Tripledot Games is a leading developer and publisher of casual and puzzle games, with a strong presence in London, Warsaw and Barcelona. The studio is responsible for multiple top 10 titles including Woodoku, Woodoku Blast, Solitaire and TripleTile.
Our best-in-class data-driven approach spans the entire lifecycle from publishing to machine learning puzzle levels, helping us make fast, smart decisions at every stage of development. We are also one of the largest IAA operators worldwide.
Tripledot Games is a diverse and collaborative studio, home to people from over 36 nationalities. We take pride in our craftsmanship, strong focus on outcomes, and continuous improvement, building high-quality, scalable games that players around the world love.
Role Overview
At Tripledot you’ll be responsible for maintaining a high degree of polish and quality across all our games, ensuring that they look and feel fantastic. Are you an experienced technical artist who understands the visual styles and trends of the mobile games ecosystem? Do you have strong opinions on which games look good, and why? Can you create beautiful, market-quality art and assets with a player demographic in mind? If so, we’re the team for you.
- Design and implement the ‘Unity layer’ which links the art and animation of the game artists to the functionality of the programmers’ underlying codebase.
- Construct games within Unity, including the use of Unity UI, in accordance with our in-house technical workflow.
- Write custom components in C# when control over complex visual elements is required.
- Optimise the games so that they run smoothly and efficiently on the widest possible range of mobile devices.
- Create animations, particle effects and custom shaders when necessary.
- Support and mentor game artists on technical issues.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Expertise in the Unity engine and Unity UI in particular.
- Experience with different architectural approaches to building a game in Unity, especially with regards to making it possible for multiple disciplines (art, animation, audio) to work independently in the engine.
- The ability to write clean, performant C# code when necessary.
- A drive to solve problems in a thoughtful, elegant way.
- The drive to proactively clean up or fix unoptimised assets and knowing when to do so.
- Experience working closely with programmers, and the ability to communicate technical information to them remotely.
- Professional-level English.
Job Benefits
- 25 days holiday: Enjoy 25 days of paid holiday in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
- 20 days fully remote working: Work from anywhere in the world, 20 days of the year.
- Regular company events and rewards: Join in regular events and rewards that celebrate cultural events, our achievements and our team spirit.
- Private Medical Cover: Have peace of mind with private medical cover, ensuring your health is in good hands.
- Life & Critical Illness Cover: Protect your future with our life and critical illness cover.
- Family Forming Support: Receive vital support on your family forming/ fertility journey with our support program [subject to policy]
- Employee Assistance Program: Access confidential support anytime through our Employee Assistance Program.
- Sport Compensation: Stay fit and active with our sport compensation benefit.
- Meal and Transport Vouchers: Save on meals and transport with our convenient vouchers.
- English & Spanish Classes: Enhance your English and Spanish skills with our provided language classes.
- Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
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