Game Programmer Needed - One Year, Part Time*

We need someone who understands how to program a complete game and who is capable of writing code for an existing game engine. This job will? be part time work over the period of? approximately one year. The game is an online (server-client) 3d, team based (MMO) battle game. There will be typically 15 to 20 players on each team. It will be a third person style game. There are no game controlled characters. (NPCs) See "More Details" ## Deliverables We need someone who understands how to program a complete game and who is capable of writing code for an existing game engine. The first task we need to accomplish is choosing a game engine. We've been looking at what is available and they all seem to have positives and negatives. We'd like to find the person who is going to be our lead programmer and then see what they recommend and, maybe more importantly, what game engine they are most familiar with. Here is what the game will look like. It is: An online (server-client) 3d, team based (MMO) battle game. There will be typically 15 to 20 players on each team. It will be a third person style game. There are no game controlled characters. (NPCs) We have already begun the concept art and have attached a couple of the pictures so you can see the direction we are headed with the look of the project. There are seven characters on each team and they will be cell shaded and in the fantasy genre. The first two tasks we'd need you to do are: 1. Help us pick the right game engine. It must be an engine that is inexpensive to develop on, has access to lots of online resources and will not limit our ownership rights in the future. (i.e. Torque, Game Studio, Ogre, etc.) 2. Your second task after you were hired would be to develop a list of game production milestones (tasks to be completed) for the programming. We would like you to take the budget of your entire bid and break it down in to tasks. This way we can schedule the payments to you as the project progresses and you complete those milestones. We would work with you to help you understand our goals for the game and how the project should be built. We are also going to create the basic? Game Design Document for you to work from. It is currently under construction. After that, we would like you to get started programming the game and working toward each of the milestones. Each time a milestone is reached, you would be paid that portion of the budget alloted to that task. We would escrow the funds for one milestone at a time in advance (before you started that milestone). If at anytime during the project you need to cancel our agreement, that would not be a problem (although we MUCH prefer someone who is planning on staying with the project all the way through). We would pay for all completed milestones if you left the project. We would also ask that you allow us the same courtesy to cancel if we felt things were not working out properly. You must have strong English language skills and be able to communicate in writing through our staff forum? (and occasionally by phone or skype) to the various members of the team. We have been building the game design team and we currently have the Game Designer, Producer, Concept Artist, Web Designer and Composer in place. We should have our Character Modeler signed up within a week. We are also working on finding a good Terrain Builder and Sound Effects Editor. The Programmer we hire must be excited about building games, have a good attitude, a sense of humor, be patient with us "non-programmers" and be willing to answer our questions as we proceed. You must also be someone who pays close attention to detail and be ready to work with us all the way through production of the game and through Beta testing. We expect this project to be part time work for you that will be spread out over the course of about one year. You may work remotely and it does not matter where you are located. If you need more details, please let us know.