We’re looking for someone to help us develop Lancer Tactics by creating visual effects for abilities & adding overall polish.

Responsibilities

Work with the Godot engine

• Proficient in the Godot editor
  • Working with the node tree
  • Particle emitters
  • GDShaders
• Pull the most recent builds via git

Create VFX for abilities

• Attacks, projectiles, systems
  • Combination of billboarded sprites, meshes, shaders, and particles
• Auras
  • Shaders & materials on meshes
• Status effects
  • Shaders & particles for sprite billboards

Environmental & overall visual polish

• Juicing it
• Lighting
• Holistic shaders such as outlines & X-ray silhouette effects
• Colors (see below)
• Map zones / overlays
• Fog-of-war outside-map areas

Working with the art director to dial in finalized color palettes for

• 3D environment textures
• 2D billboarded sprite colors
• Pilot portrait palettes
• UI colors (minor; insofar as to be better unified with the rest of the visuals)

Experienced contractor

• We’re looking for someone with experience working contracts with fixed budgets & delivering work of corresponding quality & speed. We have a fair amount of content to get through and a limited budget, so we need someone who can dial in on a style and a level of quality that can get through it all with the time and money that we have.

Bonus: Lancer content knowledge

• Ideally, you’re already familiar with the Lancer universe & have a sense of the aesthetics, technology level, and vibe of the tabletop game.
• Extra bonus if you’ve played some battles so know the utility of the basic abilities and how they’ll be used in-context.

Pay & Time

• We have about $15k budgeted for remaining VFX, total.
• We’d like to break that into 2-3 smaller contracts as we see how well you fit into the pipeline.
• We’re aiming to have this VFX content mostly locked in by the end of this year, so this work should be done in the next 5-6 months.

Contact

• Email Olive with the word “VFX” somewhere in the subject or body so it gets categorized correctly.
• Include your history/experience with:
  • Your portfolio of previous games worked on & your role
  • the Godot engine & visual pipelines therein
  • the Lancer TTRPG, if applicable