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SalaryBLUBERI VALUES:
- We Are the New School
- Clarity and Transparency
- Find It, Fix It, Own It
- Standard Operating Success
- Easiest Company to do Business With
- It?s A Team Sport
- Celebrate Wins, But Never Be Satisfied
About the Company
Headquartered in Las Vegas and backed by more than 25 years of industry experience, Bluberi is an inventive company that is dedicated to developing and delivering the highest quality casino gaming experience to players and operators. Our team is comprised of seasoned, multi-talented innovators who are focused on bringing gaming to life with entertaining games and high-performing cabinets. We are backed by the largest private equity fund in Canada with over $5 billion in assets under management and recently began expanding more aggressively into Class 2 and Class 3 markets with a potent growth plan. We are the risk-taking spirit of gambling and we add imagination and innovation to everything we create.
About the Team
The Austin Studio is responsible for the development of entertaining land-based slot machines. The studio is part of Bluberi's R&D department, which includes other development teams in the US and Canada. Our game development team is comprised of enthusiastic and experienced professionals across multiple disciplines including mathematics, visual arts, software engineering, game design, audio engineering and quality assurance. We work in a hybrid model to ensure effective iteration of creative content on target hardware while providing personal flexibility and work efficiency.
Summary
Bluberi is seeking a highly motivated individual who has a passion for visual art, entertainment products, and slot machines to be part of our Austin Studio team.
Game Artist IV sets the visual direction for slot machines that meet product requirements. They use skills in graphic design and visual arts to create game assets for interactive gaming experiences. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft novel features, themes and characters while meeting high internal standards and product requirements.
Essential Functions
- Sets visual direction and informs branding
- Leads efforts to set visual direction on slot games. Ensures consistent and effective execution of visual direction.
- Leads early design efforts with theme exploration, competitive research and development of paper prototypes and storyboards.
- Creative and collaborative art development
- Use professional skills of graphic design, typography, illustration, digital painting and other visual arts to create production assets. Demonstrates expert knowledge of creative software to make content. Sets and shares best practices for art domain.
- Collaborate with development teams and supporting departments for effective iteration of game assets and their optimized integration into the Unity platform. Adhere to established best practices.
- Clearly communicate integration requirements to development team.
- Actively seek and incorporate feedback from domain leads and stakeholders.
- Enable game development teams to deliver on-schedule with timely iteration, accurate effort scoping and time estimation. Responsible for setting and championing efficient art processes.
- Support game marketing and promotion
- Provide support to Product, Marketing and Sales teams to hit business objectives, showcase products at tradeshows and enable excellent customer service.
