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Activities: Assist in the steps of art development (concept design, color textures, iconography, scenery).

Skills: Creativity, commitment, punctuality, organization, adaptation to diverse visual styles, respect established art directions.

We are looking for experienced engine programmers to help finishing the engine of Taikodom, and optimize item for multiple platforms. Our engine programmer must feel free to optimize and design algorithms for rendering, sound and physics simulation. You should know what an easy-to-use engine does in order to build hundreds of successful games.

Qualifications:

* Strong C++ and/or Java skills

* Strong math and/or physics skills

* Evident interest in games

* Experience with multiple core system tasks, such as D3D and OpenGL graphics, audio/video, networking, memory handling, script compilers, I/O, etc

* Sound English skills.

Preference to applicants with:

* Experience working with multithreaded systems

* Performance optimization skills

* Console programming experience on XBox360 and PS3.

* Xbox LIVE experience

* Experience with compiler code

* Experience using Lua, UnrealScript

* Experience working on a mod/plugin on a mainstream game

* BS (or higher) in Computer Science or similar discipline (Physics, Math, EE, etc.)

One of Hoplon's goals is to foster talents in gameplay, engine/gui/server programming areas throught its interniship programme. If you live in Florianopolis area (Brazil's Santa Catarina State capital), and currently taking math and physics related courses on college (Engineering, Computer Science), or basic experience with programming, we then offer interniship opportunities for you. 

We currently have openings for general gameplay, AI, and physics simulation (vehicles). Our gameplay programmers have an intrinsic understanding of what makes a game fun and the analytical mind to break that down into its constituent parts. They experiment with game design using rapid prototyping, yet have the engineering background to make strong architectural and algorithmic decisions. If you’re 30% game designer and 100% programmer, get in contact with us.

Qualifications:

* Strong C++ and/or Java skills

* A keen analytical mind

* Game industry experience

* Demonstrated interest in games

* A game designer’s creativity

* Strong math and/or physics skills

* Sound English skills.

Preference to applicants with:

* Shipped-title experience

* Experience using Lua, UnrealScript

* Experience working on a mod/plugin on a mainstream game

* Experience using XNA

* Console programming experience on XBox360 and PS3

* BS (or higher) in Computer Science or similar discipline (Physics, Math, EE, etc.)

We are seeking for talented programmers with experience on GUI to develop our 2D framework. The person hired will work collaboratively with engine programmers and artists. Our GUI programmers are able to design and encode graphic interfaces, making them dynamic, intuitive and captivating. Also, as much as possible, they go further beyond players’ expectations.

Qualifications:

* Strong C++ and/or Java skills

* Provable experience in GUI

* Demonstrated interest in games

* Strong math and/or physics skills

* Sound English skills.

Preference to applicants with:

* Experience using Flash and Action Script interfaces

* Experience working with Swing, SWT, WxWindows, Qt ou MFC

* Cross-Platform GUI Development

* BS (or higher) in Computer Science or similar discipline (Physics, Math, EE, etc.)

Activities: Program new features, architecture and bug correction, specially in Java.

Skills: Dynamic behavior, agility in accomplishing tasks, punctuality, application, open mind for new challenges, and good interpersonal relation.

Hoplon is seeking a Server Programmer with strong knowledge of multithreaded programming, parallelization techniques, systems performance design and measurement, as well as great design skills. The responsibilities include developing and optimizing a game server to be capable of supporting thousands and thousands of players connected at the same time through controlling and making safe, efficient and persistent transactions.

Qualifications:

* 5+ years of highly scalable systems development experience

* 5+ years of C ++ experience

* 5+ years of Java experience

* 5+ years multithreaded experience in a Windows environment

* 2+ years experience with T-SQL or PL/SQL

* Demonstrated interest in games

* Strong math and/or physics skills

* Sound English skills.

Preference to applicants with:

* Excellent communication skills

* Java instrumentation experience

* Java Byte-Code manipulation

* Embedded Systems experience

* BS (or higher) in Computer Science or similar discipline (Physics, Math, EE, etc.)