Project Coordinator (Japanese)

NeoBards Entertainment is looking for a project coordinator (Japanese) to assist with communication and coordination with Japanese game developers.

Join our team for the chance to collaborate with industry-leading developers on high-profile projects. We welcome experienced professionals in the gaming industry who thrive in team building, or those who are new to game development but boast an excellent command of Japanese and an interest in gaming, anime, and product development.

We look forward to creating world class games with you, here at NeoBards.

工作內容

  • Assist producers and team members in handling project-related matters to ensure schedules run as planned
  • Manage and track project documents to facilitate smooth communication among project members and collaborating parties
  • Provide Japanese translation and editing for project-related materials and documents
  • Coordinate meetings, ensure preparations are done, and provide on-site interpretation when necessary

職掌範圍

  • Assist the team and collaborating parties in Chinese – Japanese communication (both language directions) for meetings and documents to ensure meetings flow smoothly, and project tasks are carried out effectively
  • Manage project schedules and files to prevent oversights or delays during the development process
  • Coordinate effectively with the production team to assist producers in driving projects forward
  • Provide on-site interpretation during conventions or international presentations

必備技能

  • JLPT N1 certified, familiarity with Japanese etiquette and customs
  • Proficiency in Chinese and Japanese reading, writing, and speaking, as well as good communication skills, logical thinking, and strong organizational capabilities
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office software, and proficiency in file management
  • Deep knowledge and passion for Japanese animation, comics, and gaming (ACG)
  • Candidates with experience in game development, related industries, or familiarity with game production terminology and techniques will be prioritized

* Candidate please answer the following questions:

Have you had any experience working or studying in Japan? If so, please provide a detailed explanation of your experience there.

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Game Designer (Character)

Characters in the game, represent the players and who they are. This requires meticulous design, thorough consideration of responsive actions for all scenarios that could occur, for characters reveal personalities, but are still possible for players to control, and help to reinforce the game universe.

Join NeoBards, for the opportunity to develop world-class projects with renowned game developers. We welcome experts with game industry experience who enjoy interacting with teams, to become one of the Bards, and work on AAA titles together!

Role:

  • Design character movements, transition, and rules of control
  • Design AI behaviors in the game, for players to have interaction
  • Integrate level design and demands in other professional fields, adjust and increase additional features, then compose into specs in documents
  • Use game development tool to integrate and verify character data
  • Responsible for balance of character parameter, optimization, and error-proof

Key Responsibility:

  • Ensure corresponding features and behaviors for the movements of controllable character, non-player and enemy features fits the goal, and enjoyment of the game
  • Ensure legibility of (design) documents, allowing colleagues from different professional field to understand the fun and purpose of game design
  • In charge modifications on final error-proof and quality optimization

Required Skills

  • 2 or more years of professional experience as Game Designer
  • Prior participation in game character design, experience in complete game project production would be a plus
  • Positive and efficient communication skill
  • Understand theory or concept of programming operation, confidence in ability to handle complex logic issues, would be a great plus
  • Familiar with Office series, capable to manage documents
  • Experience with using Unity and Unreal for game production is a plus

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Senior Audio Designer

We are looking for someone who:
1. Has at least 3 years of work experience in the games industry or audio-visual post-production
2. Is very ceative about audio, able to understand and appreciate how audio affects gameplay and customize audio and audio library
3. Is a team player and can face challenges head on and solve problems, does one’s best to create the best audio possible for a game
4. Can independently produce cinematic audio, including dialogue, SFX, foley, ambience, and music

Creativity
– Responsible for creating and implementing in-game audio and editing audio based on the requirements and feedback of the audio director
– Versed in field recording, studio recording, or foley recording besides using existing audio recorded by the internal team and copyrighted audio
– Implements in-game audio by using third-party software and other tools used by the internal team and ensures AAA quality is achieved in terms of audio quality, creativity, and optimization

Reliability
– Accurately predicts and delivers to deadlines for the team
– Creates clear production guidelines, formulates SOPs, and establishes best practices
– Willing to learn new knowledge and skills
– Creates project asset lists and clearly documents workflow and progress
– Follows the established naming conventions and folder structure rules
– Achieves weekly goals and reports progress to the audio director and producers
– Identifies potential discipline and department issues and begins troubleshooting problems. Elevates issues to superviors if one is not able to handle them
– Positive and professional, always strive to motivate and inspire colleagues

Personal Qualities
An outstanding team player equipped with good interpersonal skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate one’s ideas clearly and efficiently
Well-organized and able to manage time effectively
Proactive, flexible, and practical

Required Skills
Can create inspiring and immersive in-game audio
Able to use the audio tools used by the internal team to carry out audio tasks
Commonly used audio software

Desirable Skills:
Music creation experience
Experience with Unreal and Wwise engines

1. Has hands-on game development experience a plus
2. Hands-on experience with the Dolby Atmos. 5.1 or 7.1 System a plus
3. Experience of designing audio for horror games or videos a plus
* Those without the required credentails but with great potential will be considered as an audio designer.

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Senior VFX Artist / VFX Artist

Neobards is looking for an extremely talented and experienced senior VFX artist to oversee the creation of the effects on our next ambitious project.

1. Responsible for the creation and delivery of high quality VFX
2. Translates the product art direction into creation guidelines to produce in-game VFX
3. Maintains visibility on the progress and accurately predicts and delivers to deadlines for the team
4. Can work independently and potentially provide guidance for other team members
5. Maintains coordination with the other leads of the team

 

Key Responsibility:

– Maintains close collaboration with the design and code team to ensure compliance with design choices and technical performance
– Delivers to the highest standards of VFX quality on mobile
– Provides accurate estimates to project management and owns the delivery on time and quality
– Good self-management
– Maintains homogeneity of the VFX with other art resources
– Ensures technical and organizational compliance with defined standards
– Owns the art bible and technical documentation related to VFX creation

 

Required Skills:

– At least 3 shipped titles as VFX artist on mobile or console and 2 as a senior VFX artist
– Very experienced in hand-held and mobile platform requirements
– Very experienced with Unreal Engine
– Written and verbal communication skills (English and Chinese)
– Expert knowledge in Max/Maya/Houdini and Photoshop
– Experienced in engine optimization
– Experienced with Offline VFX platform and simulation engines
– Experienced with programming languages a plus
*Those without the required credentails but with great potential will be considered as a VFX Artist.

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Backend Programmer (AWS)

As a backend programmer, you’ll be responsible for building our meta (gaming) services of a free-to-play mobile title which will be globally operated by our publisher. Hundreds of thousands concurrent users is a minimum requirement.

You are:

  • Mastering multiple programming languages. Javascript/typescript (Nest.js) is our major language but there is no limit. We use other languages as well: Python, Java, Golang, Rust, C/C++, etc. Language diversity is the nature of open sources and the microservice ecosystem.
  • Familiar with microservices architecture. We are using Kubernetes although microservices is more than that.
  • Familiar with one of the three major public clouds. We are using AWS and many cloud native features.
  • Database practices, Postgresql is our primary database and other databases like Redis, Dynamodb, etc. Familiar with cross services transactions (database per service pattern, saga patterns).
  • Mastering Linux.
  • Mastering Internet technologies.
  • A good team player. Not just need to communicate with other programmers (client/server), there are also game designers, system engineers, database administrators, etc. And in multiple languages, Chinese, English at least.

You must demonstrate your:

  • Programming skills.
  • System engineering knowledge like performance tuning, services scaling.
  • Database knowledge.

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Backend Programmer (Node.js)

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As a backend programmer, you’ll be responsible for building our meta (gaming) services of a free-to-play mobile title which will be globally operated. Hundreds of thousands concurrent users is a minimum requirement.

You are

  • Mastering programming languages. Javascript/typescript (Node.js) is our major language but there is no limit. We use other languages (C/C++, for example) as well, they are just tools.
  • Familiar with microservices architecture. Most likely we’ll be using Kubernetes although microservices is more than that.
  • Familiar with one of the three major public clouds, most likely we’ll be using AWS. Hybrid clouds have happened before.
  • Database practices, we’ll be using SQL, NoSQL, maybe NewSQL too. Knows cross services transactions (saga patterns).
  • Mastering Linux. All the servers run on Linux.
  • Mastering Internet technologies.
  • A good team player. Not just need to communicate with other programmers (client/server), but also game designers and operators (we don’t operate but our publisher does). Also in multiple languages, Chinese, English at least.

You must demonstrate your:

  • Programming skills.
  • System engineering knowledge like performance tuning, services scaling.
  • Database knowledge.

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Senior Programmer

Key Responsibilities

  • Participate in game development project, write game programs
  • Master of C/C++, can develop games using C/C++
  • Familiar with at least one of the following game development related diciplenes: computer graphics, network backend, AI
  • Passionate and confident about developing high quality games

Required Skills

  • Education: University and above, major in information related subjects
  • English or Japanese: moderate listening, speaking, reading, writing
  • Familiar with C／C++,Java Script,Visual C++
  • Participated in the development process of a game project from start to finish
  • Experince in console game development a plus
  • Familarity with Unreal Engine 4 a plus

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Art Director

Responsible for the definition and creation of high quality game art content. Provides guidance and feedback for all artists within team and is heading the art production within a project.

Role

  • The key resource for art guidance within his/her team
  • Strong understanding of 3D and 2D packages and art theory
  • Defines and upholds very high standard in art quality and management
  • Communicates and evangelize game vision vertically and laterally
  • Responsible for the definition of the art vision for the game in accordance with product needs and in collaboration with technical and design leadership
  • Partakes in the studio visual identity definition
  • Delegates tasks to sub-team leads and artists
  • Maintains relationship with technical and design leadership

Key Responsibilities

  • Provides guidance, feedback and asset approval to art leads
  • Overviews all assets and ensures the consistent high quality of all project art
  • Supervises and contributes to outsource briefs as well as providing assessment and approval of outsource deliverables
  • Ensures all relevant art documentation is established and presented in an accessible manner
  • Leads workshops for artists and studio
  • Spreads knowledge and expertise throughout the studios
  • Sells the value of our game across the studio and our industry, including interviews & potential meetings with the press, partner companies and executives
  • Ensure compliance with product vision
  • Supports marketing needs
  • Ensure efficiency and pipeline compliance
  • Accurately predict production timelines and ensure deadlines are clearly communicated and achieved
  • Produce and circulate clear documentation of production guidelines and best working practices
  • Ensure team works in a source safe environment and with an organized professional approach
  • Manages, grows and optimises his team
  • Presents results weekly, regularly updating Studio Leadership as to the status of the production
  • Identifies problems in his/her area/department, solves them and escalates them to his/her manager
  • Display a positive working attitude within the workplace with the aim to motivate and inspire colleagues

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of preferred 3D software (including 3DS Max or Maya)
  • Strong knowledge of preferred 2D software (including Photoshop)
  • Experience with lighting, composition, color studies, painting, animation and storyboards and a good understanding of traditional art and design fundamentals
  • Up to date knowledge of latest design trends in a wide variety of areas including games, film, architecture, design and animation
  • Passion for making and playing innovative games
  • Takes responsibility for art creation on their project
  • Teamwork and excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills in order to communicate ideas clearly and effectively, both verbally, visually and in writing
  • Must be thorough and precise in his/her work
  • Creative and Visionary
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills
  • Self-motivated, flexible and practical
  • Willing to share knowledge
  • University degree: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Fine Arts, additional certifications in multimedia arts preferred
  • Work experience: 8 or more years of related experience in the gaming industry; participation in at least 3 commercially relevant title or project as an Art Director

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System Designer

Key Responsibilities

  • Design systems and generate design proposals according to product requirements
  • Ensure the research/development teams understand product requirements, and plan for production using design documents
  • When the platform is in operation, revise or generate design proposals based on the requirements of platform operation and deliver to the production team

Required Skills

  • Must have experience in game platform or tool platform design. For example: Ubisoft club, Overwatch member’s app, Taptap APP, KKbox, etc.
  • Able to design functions for all platform systems according to operational requirements
  • Able to generate design proposals and communicate with the production team and the operation team
  • 4+ years in UX or Design required

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Game UI Artist

Neobards is looking for an experienced UI Artist to oversee the user interface team of an ambitious project on console.

Role

  • Responsible for the creation and delivery of high quality user experience and interface on a high end platform game.
  • Reflects the guiding principle and art vision of the production in the user interface look and flow.
  • Maintain visibility on the progress and accurately predict and deliver to deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain close collaboration with the design and code team to ensure flow and performance for the UI.
  • Make sure the look and feel of the Ui is in accordance with the product goals and guidelines.
  • Delivers accurate estimates to project management and delivers on time and quality.
  • Maintain unity of game assets
  • Ensure technical and organizational compliance with defined standards.

Required Skills

  • Shipped titles(next generation) as UI Artist.
  • Good knowledge of flash, Photoshop and illustrator
  • Experience with Unreal engine or unity engine
  • Written and verbal communication skills (English or Chinese)
  • Experience with scaleform a plus

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