È ormai risaputo che
Sucker Punch Productions, studio che ha dato i natali alla serie
inFAMOUS, sia al lavoro su un nuovo titolo per Playstation 4, come già riportato in passato dagli annunci di lavoro pubblicati. Ora lo studio è alla ricerca di cinque candidati che possano occupare i ruoli di
Mission Designer,
Systems Designer,
Game Play Engineer,
Combat Designer ed un
Senior Character Tech Artist.
Il dato più interessante è però dato dagli annunci stessi: infatti questi ci permettono di capire quali sono gli obiettivi che si sono prefissati i ragazzi di Sucker Punch per il loro prossimo gioco.
Nel particolare troviamo, nell’annuncio riguardante la posizione di
Senior Character Artist, la conferma dell’esclusività del titolo per la console di casa Sony, e l’intenzione di spingersi oltre per quanto riguarda i personaggi, la cura dei dettagli e la loro caratterizzazione, superando il limite finora raggiunto da
inFAMOUS Second Son e
inFAMOUS First Light:
“In high school, were you voted “Most Likely to Rig the Biology Class Skeleton to Carry Your Books”? Boy, do we have the job for you! We’re looking for a Senior Character Tech Artist to help us
push our PS4 characters beyond the high bar we set with inFAMOUS Second Son and inFAMOUS First Light. As our resident propeller-head, you’ll play a key role in
pushing our rigging and animation tool-sets to new heights while streamlining our pipeline and processes.
Sucker Punch’s games have succeeded because we’ve created compelling characters like Fetch Walker and Cole McGrath. Tech artists like you have made this happen, driving mad science into our character rigs and animation pipelines so that the single tear rolling down Fetch’s cheek looks exactly right. We can’t wait to see what you’re going to come up with.
Responsibilities
- Prototype rigging and deformation solutions in Maya that identify the character quality bar for our new game, then implement final high-performance solutions to achieve those results for content production and in game.
- Collaborate with all the various teams here at Sucker Punch to identify the key character rigging capabilities needed to support our core game play experience.
- Create innovative new tools and techniques geared towards improving the quality and efficiency of our rigging, deformation, and motion capture processes.
- Push the limits of what is possible in games and be a vital part of the Character Team’s growth.
L’annuncio che riguarda la posizione di
Mission Designer sembra voler indicare le intenzioni dello studio di progettare missioni ed esperienze che difficilmente stancheranno il giocatore, invogliandolo il più possibile a continuare la propria avventura:
Sucker Punch is looking for a Mission Designer
who can create experiences that grab hold and won’t let go—
experiences so engrossing that hours go by before you’re willing to put down your controller. If you’ve been part of the mission content team for a shipped game, and you want to be part of a closely collaborative and cross-disciplinary team that’s pushing creative limits, we’d love to hear from you.
Our goal with each game we make is to
create deep and meaningful player experiences through innovative and immersive missions and game play. Our mission design team is the focal point for this process, collaborating with the narrative and programming teams, and with the rest of the mission design team, to
weave missions together into something unforgettable.
Responsibilities
- Drive the creative development of innovative mission content. Work closely with the other disciplines—programming, sound and music, visual effects, systems design—to pull together all the pieces that create the immersive AAA experiences we want to provide.
- Provide daily feedback and direction to all the contributors on your missions, driving rapid iteration so that we can hit our painfully high quality bar and to reinforce the overall vision for the product.
- Collect feedback from internal and external play tests, seeking out criticism and ideas for improvement.
- Work with the narrative team to define missions that bring the themes and characters of the game to life.
- Contribute to the overall game design. We’re a collaborative group, and we expect every member of the team to have an impact on the overall player experience.
Il comunicato riguardante il
System Designer invece esprime il desiderio di creare una intensa coesione tra meccaniche di gioco e il responso del giocatore, traducendo le prime in un forte impatto emotivo per l’utente:
Are you the sort of Systems Designer that reads though board game instruction manuals as if they were spy thrillers? Do you
look through the rule set and instantly see opportunities for betrayals and glorious come-from-behind victories? Do you inevitably end up creating a few new rules to make the experience even more dramatic? Is that you? If it is, let’s talk. We need people who understand how to
translate game mechanics into powerful emotional responses.
Sucker Punch games are fun because they
put innovative player abilities on a collision course with crafty enemies and challenging environments. As a Systems Designer, you’re in the middle of this, creating all of these components and mixing them together into a magical game design gumbo.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the other systems designers and with the game play programming team to define and implement the tightly-integrated, ground-breaking, mutually-reinforcing features in our game—player abilities, enemies and obstacles to be overcome, plus the systems that tie everything together.
- Provide clear leadership for all the functional disciplines you’re collaborating with.
- Provide crisp feedback in order to quickly iterate on concepts, proposing solutions as well as criticisms.
- Contribute to the overall game design. We’re a collaborative group, and we expect every member of the team to have an impact on the overall player experience.
Ecco qui di seguito il post per quanto concerne il lavoro di
Gameplay Engineer, le cui mansioni saranno quelle di creare ed implementare caratteristiche chiave (per quanto riguarda il gameplay appunto) per questo misterioso progetto. Per esempio, come citato nell’annuncio, dovrà occuparsi delle abilità del giocatore, del creare nuovi tipi di nemici e viene anche citato un particolare “
systemic content“:
Sucker Punch is looking for bright, enthusiastic talent as a Game Play Engineer to join our crack team of game play programmers and designers. We’ve got some cool stuff going on with our upcoming (and unannounced) project, and we need a few more pairs of hands to help make all the dreams come true. That’s where you come in!
As a company,
we’re super focused on the player’s play experience, and our game play team bears the brunt of responsibility for making that experience great. Whether you’re fresh out of school or have shipped a few games, we expect you to make a real impact.
Responsibilities
- Work with the game design team to design and implement features for our new game—player capabilities, new kinds of enemies, missions and systemic content. This is a highly collaborative position, so expect to work closely with other people just as passionate about games as you are.
- Prototype and iterate on your features and content, using play testing and user feedback to home in the best expression of your ideas.
- Work is done in a mixture of C++ and our proprietary Scheme-based scripting language.
Riportiamo infine più per completezza che per effettiva notizia anche l’annuncio riguardante la posizione di
Combat Designer, già riportato precedentemente ed essendo già noto che il gioco avrebbe utilizzato un
sistema di combattimento in terza persona.
We’re looking for a Combat Designer who knows how to throw a good digital punch, so good that you can feel it through your Dual Shock 4
. If you’ve shipped a third-person title where you helped make the combat awesome, please send us your resume. We’ll read it, talk to you on the phone, laugh at your jokes, and hopefully start giving you money in exchange for your combat design expertise.
Combat is the heart of the experience in Sucker Punch’s games, and the Combat Designer holds that beating heart in their hands. It’s an awesome responsibility—are you up for it?
Responsibilities
- Drive combat design at Sucker Punch, with a particular focus on melee combat.
- Collaborate effectively with our other crack teams—code, animation, sound, modeling, texturing, visual effects—bringing together all the best ideas into one holistic experience.
- Define clear tasks and manage deadlines for contributing team members
- Provide crisp feedback in order to quickly iterate on concepts, proposing solutions as well as criticisms.
- Chip in to the overall game design, leveraging your unique perspective to help us create the best possible player experience.
Ancora non sappiamo se il titolo in questione sarà un nuovo capitolo della serie inFAMOUS o una nuova IP, per ora sappiamo solo che sarà su Playstation 4, i combattimenti saranno in terza persona e che lo studio è intenzionato a superare ciò che è stato fatto con Second Son e First Light.
Fonte
#LiveTheRebellion