About the role
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Company Information
- Company Name: Games with DNA
- Company Description: A small, fully remote team currently self-publishing their flagship title Love & Fool’s Gold, due out in 2027.
- Featured Game: Love & Fool’s Gold - so much more than a cowboy dating sim. This is a story of love, secrets, and redemption.
Position Details
- Employment Type: Full Time, approximately five months fixed term contract-based
- Compensation: Paid
- Location: United Kingdom (Remote)
- Eligibility: Only available within the UK. Applicants not based within the UK will not be considered.
- Project Status: At present, the game has a public demo available and an existing code base to build off of. The project is developed in Unity using the NaniNovel plug-in.
The Role
- Follow designer briefs to implement remaining branching narrative scripts, as well as gameplay mechanics (such as incrementing points and tracking stats/variables and other UI related elements)
- Follow designer briefs to implement minor minigames and QOL functionality
- Work with team members to organize and implement visual and audio assets
- Review weekly tasks and targets with team and producer
- Manage version control
- Keep programming documentation up to date as necessary
Requirements
- Experience with branching narrative games
- Experience with Unity
- Familiarity with Steam (playtest branches, setup, pushing builds, etc)
- At least one shipped title as lead programmer
- Able to step into an existing project code base and quickly ramp up
- Comfortable working independently
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- UK-based
Preferred Qualifications
- Candidates with existing NaniNovel experience will have preference
To Apply
Please fill out the application form. Qualified applicants will take a short interview with the producer, and then a second interview with the company owner before an offer is made.