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Sports Mogul Inc. currently has the following open positions, although we have no specific hiring timeline. We are looking for the right people, able to juggle multiple tasks in a small, growing company. The qualifications listed below may change as our projects change, so intelligence, creativity and flexibility are also extremely valuable. Immediate relocation is not required as these roles could currently be performed by telecommuting.
About Sports Mogul Inc.
Sports Mogul Inc. is the award winning developer and publisher of the Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul product lines. We have also helped develop Midway's MLB Slugfest line of PS2 and XBox games, and Microsoft Baseball 2000 for the PC. Baseball Mogul 2006 was named an Editor's Choice by PC Gamer. Founded in 1995, the company is dedicated to bringing deep and addictive games to sports fans and PC gamers.
Producer / QA Lead
Sports Mogul Inc. is seeking an energetic and well-organized individual to help direct internal game development, bringing together the efforts of programmers, artists and external contacts (such as publishers, beta testers, reviewers, and Quality Assurance staff).
Likely Qualifications Include:
- Experience in the games or consumer software industry (shipped titles preferred)
- Strong written and organizational skills, including document and web page authoring
- Interest in the Sports Mogul games
- Extreme competence with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and the Windows OS
- Ability to create and organize task and bug lists and create a detailed schedule
- Motivation to identify necessary tasks and complete them without supervision
An application for the Producer position should include a cover letter clearly identifying why you want to work at Sports Mogul Inc. A written analysis of one of our current products (such as Baseball Mogul 2007) would also be helpful in understanding what you could contribute to our continued improvement of these games.
Programmer
Sports Mogul Inc. is seeking a confident C programmer who is extremely motivated to develop games for the major North American sports (Baseball, Football, Basketball and/or Hockey). Candidates will have strong technical abilities and be extremely self-motivated.
Tasks Include:
- Contributing to game design, interface, artificial intelligence and database architecture
- Coordinating with other programmers on scheduling and implementation concerns
- Generating technical specification, planning, and design documents for assigned tasks
- Implementing game systems according to schedule
- Documenting code and generating test cases
- Developing tools as necessary
- Working with Sports Mogul staff to refine and polish the gameplay experience
- Helping to identify and fix bugs in a timely manner
Likely Qualifications Include:
- Experience in the games or consumer software industry (shipped titles preferred)
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Windows programming experience
- Sports knowledge and/or development experience
- Passion for Baseball, Football and/or Basketball
Any of the following can help us evaluate your likely role within Sports Mogul:
- Resume demonstrating required experience and skills
- Cover letter clearly identifying why you want to work at Sports Mogul Inc.
- Samples of source code
Lead 3D Artist / Animator
(Note: We are unsure when we will be filling this art/animation position, and therefore we may not respond immediately if you send your resume)
Sports Mogul Inc. is looking to add a multi-talented individual to help bring 3D animation to the Sports Mogul product line. Candidates will have strong technical abilities and be extremely self-motivated.
Likely Qualifications Include:
- Experience in the games industry (shipped titles preferred)
- Proficient in 3D Studio Max and/or Maya
- Animation skills
- Experience cleaning up/working with mocap
- 3D modeling and texturing skills a strong plus
- Familiarity with one or more commercial 3D rendering engines
- Familiarity with human animation and bone systems
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work without supervision
Portfolio Submission
Any of the following, submitted by URL or CD, can help us evaluate your likely role within Sports Mogul:
- Samples of traditional art, drawing, painting, or sculpture, etc.
- Samples of 3D models and textures
- Renders of low polygon models.
- Renders of high polygon models.
- Textures.
- Concept art, drawings or other.
- Animation samples.
Please submit resumes (and/or portfolios, writing samples and code samples) to:
Clay Dreslough
President, Sports Mogul Inc.
58 Burr Avenue
Middletown, CT 06278
e-mail: cjd at sportsmogul dot com
No phone calls, please.
Thank you for your interest in working at Sports Mogul!
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