Near term tech due diligence project: UK

[Izuno]

Attention UK based game coders / tech director types:

THIS IS IT! This is the short term project you have been waiting for.  Let me explain:

My colleagues and I are helping an investment firm perform a tech evaluation of a London area game developer to determine if it should invest.  The developer has an impressive engine and experience shipping AAA console/PC games.

We need to know if this engine is everything the developer claims to be. Can it compete with Unreal, Source, Unity, etc. as a potentially license-able engine? What are the strengths / weaknesses of the engine and pipelines?

We need your help assessing the engine and contributing to our written report to the investor.

You will need to meet with us and the investor at the developer to discuss with the dev's management team and see the engine up close.  

Timeline: could start as early as the first week after E3!!

This is a paid project, of course! It will pay well.

What we are looking for in a candidate:

- You have experience as a senior engine coder or game technical director that has shipped at least one AAA console game as a senior coder or tech director.  Not only can you write code, but you have supervised coders.

- You have experience in AAA game engines (Unreal / Source / Unity etc.) and know all the asset production pipelines.  You can spot weak pipeline management a mile (<sigh>...or kilometer) away

- You live in the UK, else can get to the UK easily enough (we will cover travel but people living in Antarctica may want to pass on this) 

- It is okay if you are currently employed in the games industry, we would just have to get NDA clearance with everyone involved. We realize that for competitive reasons not everyone will be a fit because of this.

- If you are a freelancer even better.

PM me if you are interested...or if you have a referral. If you refer someone who ends up successfully completing the job we will provide you with a referral fee.

 

Edited June 7, 2015 by Izuno