Studio: Happy Cauldron Games

Project: Fractured: Conquest, persistent-world, large-scale magic-siege MMO

Engagement: Freelance / contract, remote

Focus: Player Abilities VFX

The role

• Author player ability/spell VFX, concept → optimized final
• Establish a semi-realistic style: grounded, weighty magic - not stylized/anime
• Build for scale: dozens of abilities firing at once in dense siege combat, without tanking frame rate

Responsibilities

• Author and extend ability/spell VFX
• Define + document a semi-realistic VFX style guide
• Integrate effects via Unity (VFX Graph / Shuriken, Shader Graph)
• Optimized effect budgets: particle counts, overdraw, draw calls, GPU/CPU particles, texture/atlas discipline
• Profile + optimize for many-player combat
• Tune timing/readability with design & engineering (cast, impact, status tells)
• Test VFX in our editor tooling

Required

• Senior VFX experience, shipped/substantial real-time projects
• Strong Unity: VFX Graph and/or Shuriken, Shader Graph
• Portfolio showing semi-realistic style (grounded combat magic)
• Proven highly optimized VFX, ideally multiplayer/perf-constrained
• Self-directed, Can test, Builds modular and reusable effects

Nice to have

• MMO / large-scale PvP / RTS combat VFX
• Experience setting team VFX standards