Senior Character Modeling Artist
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Character Modeling Artist to create the characters and other assets for our online social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
The Senior Character Modeling Artist helps to define the style and content guidelines of Spooky Cool's games. The creative output from this position is a key ingredient in the overall game experience and serves as inspiration for production artists. The ideal candidate will have experience in low poly modeling and creating a diverse visual range of characters, creatures, environments, assets, and architectures.
Please submit your current website along with your resume in order to be considered for this position.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the Art Director to ensure consistency between vision and implementation of characters and assets
- Supervise external art teams to provide feedback and integrate assets
- Collaborate with technical teams to develop run-time game procedures, technical modeling specification, and pipelines for internal and external teams
- Make a significant, direct contribution to the creation of master characters and assets for external art teams
- Expert understanding of the game development processes, limitations, and dependencies
QUALIFICATIONS
- Task driven, self motivated, proactive
- Proficient in Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush
- Ability to create schedules and milestones
- Experience with skeleton/rig creation and weighting
- Work well under deadline and ability to take directions
- Having worked on at least 3 shipped game titles is a must
- A minimum of 5 years professional experience as a character modeler
- Exceptional visual and technical understanding in 3D modeling and texturing (both high- and low-resolution characters and assets)
HELPFUL SKILLS
- Experience sculpting facial blend shapes is a plus
- Knowledge of Unity 3D Engine a plus
Senior Environment Artist
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Environment Artist to create the environments and other assets for our online social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
The Senior Environment Artist helps to define the style and content guidelines of Spooky Cool's games. The creative output from this position is a key ingredient in the overall game experience and serves as inspiration for production artists. The ideal candidate will have experience in low poly modeling and creating a diverse visual range of environments, assets, and architectures.
Please submit your current website along with your resume in order to be considered for this position.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the Art Director to ensure consistency between vision and implementation of environments and assets
- Supervise external art teams to provide feedback and integrate assets
- Collaborate with technical teams to develop run-time game procedures, technical modeling specification, and pipelines for internal and external teams
- Make a significant, direct contribution to the creation of master environments and assets for external art teams
- Expert understanding of the game development processes, limitations, and dependencies
QUALIFICATIONS
- Task driven, self motivated, proactive
- Proficient in Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush
- Ability to create schedules and milestones
- Work well under deadline and ability to take directions
- Having worked on at least 3 shipped game titles is a must
- A minimum of 5 years professional experience as an environment modeler
- Exceptional visual and technical understanding in 3D modeling and texturing (both high- and low-resolution characters and assets)
HELPFUL SKILLS
- Knowledge of Unity 3D Engine a plus
Concept Artist
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Concept Artist to create the Characters and Levels for our online social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
The Concept Artist helps to define the style and content guidelines of Spooky Cool's games. The creative output from this position is a key ingredient in the overall game experience and serves as inspiration for production artists. The ideal candidate will have experience in concept drawing and illustrating a diverse visual range of environments, objects, creatures, architectures and characters.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain consistent style under the direction of the Art Director.
- Create production designs for assets.
- Assist in establishing style for production art.
- Participate in setting quality/detail targets for production.
- Work with production leads to create relevant concept art.
- Work with game designers and programmers to make sure concept designs address game-specific concerns.
- Create illustrations to support marketing efforts.
- Assist and mentor junior art team members.
REQUIREMENTS
- BA or 2-4 years related experience and training.
- In-depth experience with Photoshop.
- Expert drawing and conceptualization skills.
- Ability to adapt to established styles.
- Understanding of form, composition and use of detail.
- Understanding of structure, color and light.
- Willingness to receive direction and work well with a team.
- Strong time management and prioritization skills.
DESIRED SKILLS AND PLUSES
- Experience with 3D software such as Maya or Max.
- Foundation in the traditional arts, such as figure drawing, landscape painting, matte painting and illustration.
- Understanding of game art creation (e.g., low-polygon modeling and texturing, environments, and props)
Software Engineer — Games (Unity 3D)
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Software Engineer to develop our online social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office. However, we are OPEN TO REMOTE WORK ARRANGEMENTS for experienced applicants
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
Software Engineers like you are a critical part of our team. You will not be limited to coding, but deeply involved in the design and the direction of our games. Every one of our employees loves playing games and has a drive for creating games.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Solid experience programming using C# and the UNITY 3D Editor
- Familiarity with JSON is also highly desired
- Work with the team to produce complex and efficient methods and functionalities
- Facebook application development is not required but highly desired
- Clean, easy to follow code
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 2 years of development experience
- UNITY 3D game engine experience
- Experience integrating software with an outside web service
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Dedication to meet development schedules
HELPFUL SKILLS
- Code optimization
- Prior game development experience
- Ability to create 2D and 3D placeholder art
Software Engineer — Games (Back End)
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Software Engineer to develop our online social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
Software Engineers like you are a critical part of our team. You will not be limited to coding, but deeply involved in the design and the direction of our games. Every one of our employees loves playing games and has a drive for creating games.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Solid experience programming web-based technologies using PHP/LAMP
- Work with the team to produce complex and efficient methods and functionalities
- Facebook application development is not required but highly desired
- Clean, easy to follow code
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 2 years of development experience
- PHP development experience
- Experience with MySQL integration
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Dedication to meet development schedules
HELPFUL SKILLS
- Code optimization
- Prior game development experience
- Linux systems administration experience
Marketing Director
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a Marketing Director to join us in creating the best social games on the planet!
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
The Marketing Director will help shape and implement the Company's Online Marketing and Social Media strategy to develop and foster brand awareness amongst a global social gaming audience through Facebook, Twitter and other online media outlets. This position is responsible for developing the strategies and plans to bring our social games to market, and to bring the market to our games.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Implement comprehensive PR strategy to increase overall brand awareness for all brands, including product launches and updates.
- Collaborate with management and creative teams to develop and execute marketing campaigns across all available channels.
- Leverage relationships with licensed property owners to maximize exposure through all available outlets.
- Develop effective out-of-the-box player acquisition and retention strategies that capitalize on viral elements of Facebook, YouTube, and other online platforms.
- Manage social media campaigns and day-to-day activities, including player promotion, writing editorial, community-outreach efforts, promotions, etc.
- Define metrics for success for advertising and marketing programs.
- egularly provide insights gained from marketing campaigns and social media outlets to game design teams to help evolve game play features.
REQUIREMENTS
- BA/BS degree with a strong academic record.
- 5 years experience in online marketing and/or social media strategy.
- Experience using and analyzing online metrics for consumer preferences.
- Understanding of web-wide distribution, partnership, and competitive strategy.
- Versed in social media and experienced user of social media channels.
- Understanding of social networking and social gaming coupled with a deep understanding of social networking engagement models
- Strong influencing and leadership skills; effective cross-functional motivator.
- Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas in written and verbal format.
- Flexibility and ability to react to shifting priorities. Ability to manage multiple projects while keeping an eye on the details.
Game Metrics Analyst
Spooky Cool Labs is looking for a talented and experienced Data Analyst to perform in-depth analysis of the data and metrics collected from players enjoying our social games.
Who are we?
Spooky Cool Labs is a social gaming company founded by legends of the pinball, arcade, and casino gaming industry.
What is our mission?
We make high-quality branded social games for Facebook and mobile platforms with unique features designed specifically for each brand.
Where are we located?
We have regional locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Reno. This position is located in our Chicago, IL office.
So, if you want to work with passionate gamers in a company owned by legendary veterans of the gaming industry: JOIN US NOW!
Principals only, please.
DESCRIPTION
The Game Metrics Analyst is responsible for tracking online game performance and providing feedback that will be used to improve the end user experience. The end goal of maximizing player engagement and optimizing the earning power of each title is instrumental to Spooky Cool's strategy and success.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop analysis and reporting tools to deliver daily/weekly/monthly reports and charts.
- Assess the the impact that game programming changes have on player behavior.
- Perform ad hoc "what if" queries, investigations and data mining using existing data.
- Identify patterns of player behavior and other correlations related to time of day, day of week, national holidays, etc.
- Develop modeling tools to predict the outcome of potential game modifications
- Work with internal teams to establish requirements for reporting and analysis, and to define the logging data points that are necessary to create those reports.
- Collaborate with the creative teams to help "tweak" features and game play.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advanced statistical training and thorough practical experience modeling behavior from data.
- Knowledge of SQL, SAS/SPSS or programming languages useful to data retrieval and analysis.
- Excellent data reporting and presentation skills.
- Strong self-management skills.
- A background in experimental psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction, computer science, information science or related field.
