Keen Software House is hiring new developers!

[iHenk]

Team name:
Keen Software House ltd.

Project name:
Miner Wars

Brief Description:
Any person interested in game development is welcome to come and discuss with us their possible project participation. The studio will value the willingness to participate as the No.1 factor for acceptance. The studio welcomes any people who have tried to make their own Indie game in the past or are just eager to start and gain some experience.

Brief description about the game:
‘Miner Wars is a 6DOF underground and space shooter played in a fully destructible environment and is a combination of single player story game and MMO.

As a player, you operate an advanced mining ship in an open world asteroid belt area. You dig kilometers of tunnels, harvest the ore, travel the solar system, fight your enemies and discover mysterious alien secrets.

Game play is led by an epic story and is a combination of a single/multi-player game, cooperative, or you against everyone.

The story will introduce you to many types of missions: rescue, exploration, revenge, base defense, theft, transportation, stealth, search and destroy, pure harvesting, racing or just flying around and destroying everything you see.

High quality rendering and special effects, realistic physics, unique 'destructible engine' and game area with no borders will make this game an experience that is out of this world.’

Target aim:
Commercial release through digital distribution Q4 2010.
PC and Xbox live arcade

Compensation:
For the next 2 – 3 months we will not be able to pay out any payment. After the months are over we can start receive money from pre-order or publishers/investors. We’re using the ‘Time investment program’. People invest time and for that they gain money in exchange after some time.

Technology:
VRage Engine – Voxel Rage Engine

Talent needed:

Programmers - Essential is the knowledge of object oriented programming, preferably C# and XNA (not mandatory)

“We are looking for programmer who is willing to start porting Miner Wars from Windows to XBOX360. Miner Wars is implemented using XNA 3.1 so this should be straightforward process - removing keyboard and mouse dependencies, adding support for XBOX360 controller, checking if the game works, making sure it fits in 512 Mb RAM, removing dependencies on UDP networking and so on.”

3D Modelers - experience with any 3D modeling software like 3Ds MAX, modelers can start contributing their models in the game immediately. Experience with texturing the models is a big advantage.

Art & Graphics - the studio is essentially looking for anyone who wishes to contribute to the game with their own art or graphics style. Studio is especially interested in people with texture drawing experience.

Web Designers -. We would like to emphasize the following: We are looking for very talented and a creative person. Thus someone who can paint pretty web site, logos, pictures and so on to improve our current website.

Texturerers – We’re currently looking for people who know how to UVMapping and are willing to texture simple objects and other stuff in the game. (A lot)

Team structure:
The team currently exist out of 21 people all doing their part in the development process.
Website: www.minerwars.com

Contacts:
If you're interested in our project and you would love to work with us. You can leave your application letter at the following E-mail Adress:
Info@keenswh.com

Previous Work by Team:
This is going to be our first Indie game.

Feedback:
Of course, We’re eager to hear what you think of this project. Feel free to leave a comment or if you’ve got some questions.

Thank you for your time!

Kind Regards,

Henk Bembom
Community Marketing lead
Keen Software House ltd.

www.minerwars.com

[hallsofvallhalla]

This game looks awesome!! Please keep us updated of progress.

[MAruz]

Hm, funny. I've actually seen that vid before, I read an article about this game in an online game magazine, and it sure looks awesome!
I'd surly have liked to contribute to this project, but my life situation doesn't open up for that, and I'm not that skilled in OOP yet. I can do minor stuff, but I'd still need to learn allot to be efficient and independent

Btw, the OP didn't say if this is a job who requires you to relocate, or if it's payd or not.

[Jackolantern]

Wow, looks nice! But what does "6DOF" mean? I have never heard of that kind of game before.

[iHenk]

@jackolatern

Hi, 6Dof means that you can basicly move into any direction you want.

[hallsofvallhalla]

6Dof = 6 direction of field?

[Jackolantern]

6Dof = 6 direction of field?

I guess it means "...of flight". I dunno. Neat, though. Wasn't Descent kind of like that?

[hallsofvallhalla]

yep reminds me a lot of descent and I loved that game.

[iHenk]

UPDATE:Our Musician team is full now

[iHenk]

UPDATE: We're currently actively looking for new programmers.