Lionhead Studios uses Amiqus Games (a division of the Alexander Mann Group) as its
master recruitment vendor. Amiqus are a leading recruiter in the games industry
and manage a small group of preferred suppliers on Lionhead Studio's behalf.
If you need any further information on how to apply please do not hesitate to get
in touch ASAP.
Current openings
Standard Scripter X 2 ::
Salary to £28K pro rata per annum. - 9 month contract
1 – GUI Scripter on Fable 3
1 – Scripter on Milo & Kate
Overview :
Successful applicant will be part of a the scripting team working on a high profile Xbox 360 Action Adventure game. They will be responsible for the scripting of in-game quests and interactive cutscenes.
Required :
- Proficient with scripting languages (LUA in particular)
- Experience of scripting in-game content
- An ability to be able to contribute to the game design.
- Needs to be an good communicator
- Ability to take direction and work as part of a team
- Good problem solving skills
- Self motivated
Desirable :
- Able to provide examples of past mission designs in shipping titles
- Familiarity with XBOX 360 development platform
- Experience with Game Editing tools (for example: UNREAL ED)
- General experience and ability to quickly comprehend internal tools
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Motion Editor x2 ::
Salary: £25-40K pro rata -- 11 month contracts
1 x Senior Motion Editor
1 x Standard Motion Editor
Working within the animation team, responsible for re-targetting, cleaning and finessing motion capture performance data, delivering game-ready animation data, building animation trees in Havok Behaviour Tool
Requirements :
- Good understanding of the motion capture pipeline, from acquisition through solving and delivery
- Good understanding of creating blend trees (ideally though not essentially in Havok Behaviour Tool)
- Understanding of traditional animation principles (timing, weight etc) and how they relate to motion captured performance
- Working knowledge of the character technical pipeline
- Proven experience working with motion editing toolsets, layering motion through additive edits
- Autodesk Motionbuilder/Giant Nuance or equivalent software
- Experience in game/feature production
- A passion for enabling delivery of world class performance, right through the pipeline
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Facial Animator x2 ::
Salary TBC -- 9 month + contract
Junior level x 1
Standard level x 1
Roles and responsibilities :
- Keyframe animation of high fidelity character, for in-game moments
- Using in-house proprietary tools in a prescribed method, to create believable lip-sync and emotions on main game character
- Working with animation director from reference material
- At times, between batches of facial animation, may be required to work on motion-editing, mo-cap data – training will be given as necessary
Skills :
- Method and software will be taught to successful applicant (and demo’d at a test to all second stage interviewees)
- Excellent observational and visual analysis skills required
- Ability to be methodical and consistent
- Attention to detail
- Drawing ability (portrait and/or life drawing) ideal
Other :
- Extensive experience of facial animation is not requisite, but some examples need to be available to view on showreel
- Good communication skills
- Team player, ready to take direction and critique
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Standard Engine Programmer
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Salary £25-£40K/annum - 12 month contract
Overview :
Lionhead require an experienced engine/graphics programmer to assist the team with a number of general graphics and engine based development tasks, such as profiling, optimisation, and implementing special effects.
The key objectives within this role are to :
- Help further develop, maintain core engine systems.
- Liase across different disciplines to identify engine requirements.
- Be creative and innovative in regards to the design of new engine features to ensure the project is at the forefront of technical innovation.
- Regularly measure and optimize engine performance.
The successful candidate will have next generation engine or graphics experience within the games industry and will have been key to the development and optimisation of the graphical technology of at least one published title on Xbox360 or PS3.
Programmers with knowledge and adept skills working with the following features are encouraged to apply :
- Knowledge of Vertex and Pixel shaders.
- Post processing
- Multithreaded architectures
- Skinning
- Static/dynamic lighting models
- Excellent C++ programming knowledge
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Build Support Engineer x2 ::
Salary - £25-35K/annum - 12 month contract.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ONE OF THE BUILD SUPPORT ROLES IS WITH THE CORE TECHNOLOGY GROUP, AND THE OTHER IS DIRECTLY WITH THE TEAM WORKING ON FABLE 3.
Job Description
The primary focus of the role involves working directly with one of Lionhead's game teams on a day-to-day basis to maintain and enhance their asset build process, as well as support the team in their use of that process.
Main Duties :
- Understanding and supporting the end-to-end build process and data interdependencies.
- Diagnosing asset build problems
- Optimizing, maintaining and enhancing the asset build process
- Regular meetings with the game Technical Director and area leads to discuss progress, status and direction of the build process.
Additional Duties (as required, in conjunction with the game Technical Director and area leads) :
- Helping to implement new and enhance existing systems to gather and analyse asset build performance, reliability and memory usage statistics.
- Liaising with area leads/production to ensure recommendations on build stability and performance are carried through.
- Ensuring that build breaks are fixed in a timely manner.
Required Experience :
Knowledge and experience of working on game asset content pipelines including:
- DCC Exporters
- Scripting languages (Python, Lua)
- Continuous Integration/Build systems (Pulse)
- Source code/asset management systems (Alienbrain/Perforce)
- Communication with content creators
Specific Skills/Tools :
- Python (required)
- Perforce (required)
- General C++ (required)
- Advanced C++ (desired)
- AlienBrain (desired)
- C#/.net (desired)
- Code Optimization (desired)
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Activity Designer ::
Salary £25-£30K/annum - Permanent vacancy
Overall Responsibility :
Work closely with the lead designer & the design team to create & implement the activities, following the overall design vision of the game. The designer needs to be experienced in hands on game mechanics, have excellent “game sense” & really understand what’s required to make a game fun to play. The designer must be able to create design documents that convey concepts & ideas to fellow team members, explaining game systems, control schemes, flowcharts, diagrams, formulas, spreadsheets & anything else required to effectively communicate their vision. The designer must be able to contribute to the implementation of the activities, through scripting (LUA), playing, testing, tweaking & feeding back into the process in order to constantly refine, improve & polish the experiences.
Details of Responsibility :
- Must be prepared to accept a CSG role for the entirety of the project (currently looking like a 12 month contract).
- Must have at least four years experience in a design role & have completed at least one published game in that role.
- Must have excellent “game sense”, a hands on ability to understand what makes a game fun & why something doesn’t “feel” right & how to make it right.
- Must be able to show strong design skills & an excellent ability to communicate those skills, both verbally & through clear detailed documentation (we will supply a short design test to candidates whose CVs interest us).
- Must be prepared to come onto a major project, with a short development time & work exceptionally hard to achieve the required goals.
- Ideally, candidate would also have some Lua (or script/programming) experience.
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Standard Environment Artist ::
Salary – to £35K pro rata - 9 month contract
- This is an environment artist role.
- ZBrush skills essential
- 3D software and Photoshop experience essential. Experience with Softimage (XSI) is a bonus.
- Has a passion and strong drive for quality.
- Can come onto a team and be immediately productive.
- Ability to take direction and work as part of a team
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Senior Environment Artist ::
Salary – to £34K/annum - 7 months contract
Overview :
For Lionhead Studios to maintain its position as the jewel in Microsoft’s crown we need the most talented people in the industry to work for us.
To that end we are currently looking for a top-flight senior environment artist to help us build new worlds within the Fable Franchise.
Fable II’s recent 3million sales success is in no small part thanks to its incredibly talented environment team and we need fresh blood to help up create the rich landscapes and towns that our ambitious designers require.
We’re looking for candidates with a proven track record of work on high quality shipped titles. This is an opportunity to work with industry leading talent and we’re keen to see artists who still have a passion for creating games and feel they have something extra to give.
Requirements :
Successful applicants will be able to show a genre leading portfolio and also boast the extensive practical knowledge of:
- Photoshop
- Zbrush
- A major 3D package
We’d be delighted if candidates could also tick some of the following boxes:
- Prior Senior or Lead level experience
- Knowledge of XSI
- Architectural experience
- 2D concept skills
- Experience outside of environment work
We’re looking for someone who will not only be able to be a creative genius on a daily basis but is also able to create exceptional quality assets to a tight schedule. This senior role requires a high level of technical ability along with the capacity to feedback on tools and creative issues in a positive and proactive manner.
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Standard Engine Programmer - Fable Team ::
Salary – Approx £35K - Permanent position
Job Description :
The primary focus of the role involves polishing the quality of certain aspects of the Fable III 3D rendering engine, as well as adding new features to it, such as new shaders/materials for hair or skin rendering. The successful applicant will be willing and able to work on all aspects of a rendering engine, from character rendering to water rendering, and also have experience with rendering optimisation.
Main Duties :
- Work with the engine lead, the technical artist and the art director in order to implement new features and workflows to the right quality level
- Produce high quality, high performance code taking advantage of the Xbox 360 hardware
- Help with the stability of the Fable III engine
- Help with the performance of the Fable III engine
Required Experience :
- The ideal candidate will have worked on the 3D engine of at least one shipping game
- At least two years experience of working on games rendering engines
- Experience with working on the Xbox 360
Specific Skills :
- Advanced C++
- Strong maths
- Shader programming
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Standard Gameplay Programmer - Fable Team ::
Salary – Approx £30K - Permanent position
Job Description :
The primary focus of the role involves working with certain combat systems in Fable III, including updating and maintaining Fable’s “Crescendo combat” system, and also some work on the magic system. The successful applicant will be willing and able to work on all aspects of gameplay including, but not limited to, the camera, multiplayer, simulation and GUI.
Main Duties :
- Taking ownership of Fable’s camera systems, with a particular focus on the “Crescendo combat” systems (which includes camera overrides).
- Assist in the work to improve the hero character’s combat.
- Working to ensure that all of the features worked on work in multiplayer over Xbox Live.
- Helping to implement new and enhance existing gameplay systems according to the needs of the project.
Required Experience :
- The ideal candidate will have worked on at least one shipping game.
- Experience of working with C++ at a production quality level.
- Experience with working on Xbox 360 is an advantage, but not strictly required.
Specific Skills/Tools :
- General C++ (required)
- Advanced C++ (desired)
- Lua (desired)
- Code Optimisation (desired)
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Senior Technology Programmer x2 ::
Core Tech Group/Milo team -Permanent role
Job Description :
Reporting to the Head of Technology, the role involves working within Lionhead's Central Technology Group R&D team to develop innovative technology for the XBox 360 Natal controller. Our Natal tech will be used across all Lionhead projects to provide new user interface experiences for our future games.
Duties :
- Develop custom skeletal tracking solutions
- Apply machine learning techniques to gesture and image recognition
- Research new user interface paradigms
- Work with project leads to integrate centrally developed Natal code into game projects.
- Develop robust testing strategies for Natal code.
Required Skills and Experience :
- Advanced mathematical based problem solving.
- Experience of image detection/processing algorithms and research
- Machine Learning Techniques (Hidden Markov Models, Bayesian networks, Kalman Filters etc.)
- Strong C/C++ programming.
- Excellent technical communication, written and verbal.
- Thorough understanding and experience of the game development process.
Desired Skills and Experience :
- Automated Testing
- Library and API development
- Perforce source control
- XBox 360 development experience
- Code optimisation (performance and memory usage)
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If you need any further information please do not hesitate to get in touch ASAP
Please send your CV's to Lionheadgames@amiqus.com.
Contact information:
Stig Strand,
Amiqus Games,
Chadwick House,
Warrington Road,
Birchwood Park,
WA3 6AE
stig.strand@amiqus.com
tel. +44 (0)1925 252588
fax. +44 (0)1925 252596.
Lionhead may post jobs on this website, but unless clearly stated otherwise, please
address all recruitment requirements, job applications or CVs to Stig Strand at
AMIQUS.