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Coal Car Studio is looking for an enthusiastic Community Manager to help grow and engage our community for Fruit Golf, our original multiplayer virtual reality game. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the community from the ground up, with ample opportunities for growth and development. If you are passionate about games, have excellent communication skills, and thrive on interacting with players, we'd love to have you on our team. As a Community Manager, you'll be the voice of our studio, managing our online presence, engaging with our player base, and creating exciting opportunities for our community to connect. You'll be instrumental in building a positive environment that enhances the experience for all players.
This is a contract position with the opportunity to transition into a permanent role based on performance and studio needs, offering flexibility for hybrid or fully remote work. Preference will be given to those based in Vancouver, Canada.
Role Overview:
As a Community Manager, you will help build and maintain a vibrant player community leading up to the launch of Fruit Golf next year, and continue to support it post-launch. You will interact directly with our players, amplify their voices, and ensure their feedback reaches our development team. Your work will be crucial in creating a welcoming environment for all players and helping us understand the needs of our audience.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Our Games:
Founded by two brothers, Coal Car Studio believes that games are more than just solo experiences. We're focused on creating social virtual reality experiences that can be enjoyed with friends and family. By embracing innovative technologies and creative gameplay, we aim to make VR more inclusive and bring the joy of shared gaming experiences back into the spotlight.
Compensation:
We offer a competitive salary ($50,000 - $70,000), flexible work arrangements, 3 weeks of vacation plus a winter holiday closure, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We believe in fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
How to Apply:
Send us your resume and a cover letter at: . We’re excited to see what you bring to our community!
Coal Car Studio is an award-winning Vancouver-based team passionate about immersive technology and pioneering new ways to play together. Having worked in the XR industry since 2015, we believe this technology is the future. We design and develop a mix of games, educational and enterprise experiences, and brand activations, but our passion is gaming. The more social, the better.
While based in Vancouver, we support a hybrid work environment with team members distributed around the globe. We are an equal opportunity employer with a diverse, talented team. We pride ourselves on having an open, honest, and supportive culture that puts our team’s wellbeing above all.
We are looking for smart, creative individuals to help craft immersive experiences and make the world a better place.
Fruit Golf is an asymmetrical virtual reality (VR) game where golf balls are replaced by fruit and your friends rain terror down on the course as you putt. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to whack a watermelon, pineapple, or star fruit with a golf club? Well, Fruit Golf can’t promise the most realistic physics, but each fruit has its own unique way of sliding, bouncing, wobbling, and rolling down the course.
VR can be a very isolating experience – now it doesn’t have to be. Fruit Golf brings the zany course out of the headset and into your friends’ hands where they can directly manipulate the world around you through a free companion app. The golfer will try to navigate courses such as pirate ships besieged by a Kraken, the castle of the vampiric blood orange, or the solar system where all the planets are fruit, and the moon is a banana. In the meanwhile, the players outside VR will coordinate their assault to make it as difficult as possible for the golfer to reach the hole. Some obstacles are simple blockades, others explode launching the fruit out of bounds, while others require teamwork. Take for instance the simple windup mouse, all alone it will simply patrol a section of the course, but if a fellow saboteur drops a piece of cheese, not even a wayward pineapple can stop the mouse from reaching its prize.
Solo players will also be able to play all the courses with or without obstacles, as well as hone their skills in a variety of challenge levels. The challenge levels will force the player to take a break from the frenetic never stopping action of the multiplayer mode and focus on making the perfect shot and solve the puzzle of each challenge course tailored to quirks of every fruit. Given all this, Fruit Golf is a whole fruit basket worth of fun!
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