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Are you a flexible Unreal Engine developer with a passion for games and an interest in design? Do you embrace the Indie game mindset and devotion to all things Unreal? Does the idea of immersing yourself in a party game of cartoon cats float your boat? Perhaps there’s a place for you amongst Le Catnip collective!
You will play a critical role in developing and maintaining various aspects of our unique online party game built around the Lyra game base. You will leverage your broad range of skills and expertise to tackle any development challenge and contribute to mini-game prototyping, UI design, simple AI, visual effects, and more. Our game has an online multiplayer focus and we’ll be working under the guidance of expert consulting.
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Who are you?
About the director:
I’m an animator/tech artist with 20 years experience in AAA games (Next Level games, Rare, THQ) and feature films (The little prince, Sahara, Rumble, Mune, Legend of the Guardians) - Animation portfolio. I also have 4 years experience as a team leader managing artists and technicians at Cinesite and ReelFX here in Montreal. Come join me and become part of “Le Catnip Collective”, a core team of 4 with various additional contractor support. I value creating an inclusive group of collaborators who openly share ideas and feedback and also embrace owning and polishing their part of the game with pride. We’ve just partnered with a publisher and we’re excited to have the resources available to turn our little prototype into a unique and fun online party game!
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How to apply:
We'd love to see your past work! Please send us an email with your CV and examples of your projects. It would be helpful if you could be very specific about the elements you were responsible for in each project. Looking forward to hearing from you!
When choosing a name for our studio, we wanted to distill the essence of who we are, and what our vision is. This is why we would like to tell you a little about the three words that make up Le Catnip Collective.
Le – our cheeky nod to Montreal
Our small, nascent studio was founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a unique bilingual and cultural melting pot. Passionate about our adoptive city, we are willing participants in its delightfully quirky tradition of mixing English and French. “Franglais” is more than a curiosity: it’s a way of life!
Montreal also has a proud reputation as both an exciting indie game hub and, more broadly, as a society that champions diversity. With this in mind, we hope to recruit locally, to nurture up-and-coming talent and, ultimately, to give back to the progressive Québécois town we love.
Catnip – our energetic, original vision
Creating exceptional, original, character-infused games is our raison d’être. We approach this mission with humility, knowing that it is achieved by putting the art in front of the ego. Throw in oodles of energy and an unwavering commitment to that vision, and there you have it: our catnip recipe for high quality indie games.
Collective – our fusion of talent, passion and respect
The beauty of a team is when the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. To seek that synergy, we build on solid foundations of respect, we place people above profit, and we dig deep into our pooled talent and shared creative passions. By working together, we forge a very small but mighty studio: Le Catnip Collective.
Play, race and hang with your feline friends in this online platformer party game! Purrfect your pussycat parkour as you sprint, jump, bounce, swing, skid and slide through a collection of collaborative and competitive mini-games set in a grandiose cartoon mansion. Get jumpin', jazz cats!
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(Please keep in mind that until this point the project has been the work of a solo developer and does not yet represent finished quality)
We’ve been lucky to have some incredible jobs working at and partnering with some of the biggest brands in video games.
But we’ve never had more fun and been more fulfilled than when we were working with indie game developers.
Everyone in games should have that much fun.
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