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[.Pennywise]

Double Fine, from Xbox Game Studios is working on a AAA videogame since 2020 at least. Now a new job opening just let us see that this new project is being developed in Unreal Engine 5

Double Fine Productions

Double Fine Productions is an award-winning, game development studio founded in 2000 by games industry veteran Tim Schafer. Located in San Francisco’s South of Market district, Double Fine is committed to making high-quality games with an emphasis on o...

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Description​

Double Fine is looking for a full-time Procedural Technical Artist for its San Francisco-based development studio. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple disciplines, acting as a bridge between engineering and art teams, guiding the development of our procedural pipelines, and supporting the teams using the tools.

Requirements​

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Houdini and integration with Unreal Engine pipelines is required for this position.
• Create, maintain, and document usable procedural world-building and asset-building tools for use in Unreal Engine via Houdini.
• Integrate & support new tools (Python/C#/Unreal Blueprint) into the existing art pipeline.
• Discover ways to leverage existing pipeline tools and features in UE5.
• Research and incorporate recent advances into existing pipelines and environment art workflows.
• Collaborate with artists to fulfill needs in tech, discover best practices, and communicate with the team.

Pluses:

• Have a strong preference for working in a highly creative, innovative, and nimble development environment, where collaborating with and supporting design, audio, art, animation, tech, and other disciplines is standard.
• Experience working with small to medium-sized teams with shared pipelines and toolchains.
• Console game development experience.
• Innovative problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Team-focused effective communicator.
• Knowledge/proficiency in:
  • Houdini
  • C#/C++
  • Python
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Unreal Blueprint Scripting
  • Substance Painter
  • Substance Designer
  • Blender
  • Illustrator
  • Zbrush
  • Maya
  • Photoshop
  • Experience with Procedural lipsync systems
• Ability to work onsite at our San Francisco studio.

Benefits​

Some of the perks of working at Double Fine include unlimited PTO, flexible work from home arrangements, extended family leave, 401(k) matching, and watching Tim’s facial hair evolve over time.
Double Fine is an inclusive company. We believe that a diverse team leads to the best games and highly encourage folks from underrepresented groups to apply.
Expected salary range: $105,000 - $120,000

 

[Riky]

Great news, Psychonauts 2 was excellent. Be interesting what they can do with a big budget on UE5.

With this there is a fair few games we know Xbox are working on but haven't been announced.

The Coalition
id
inXile
Double Fine

 

[Kupfer]

Brütal Legend 2

 

[feynoob]

Spoiler: Phil is cooking

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

I'd love to see what Tim Schafer and team can do with a big budget...not large enough where failure becomes financial distress, but large enough they feel less need to cut corners. Psychonauts was a GOTY quality game, I know what he does next will be hype creative. Exciting.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Is Double Fine married? If not I'm in the market for a new developer waifu.

 

[LordCBH]

Double Fine always has my attention.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[BennyBlanco]

I'd love to see what Tim Schafer and team can do with a big budget...not large enough where failure becomes financial distress, but large enough they feel less need to cut corners. Psychonauts was a GOTY quality game, I know what he does next will be hype creative. Exciting.

Brutal Legend was definitely a big budget production

 

[Nvzman]

New Banjo game?

 

[Riky]

New Banjo game?

That would be amazing!

 

[Punished Miku]

They've always worked on multiple games. I'm sure there's lots cooking, small, medium and large.

 

[kuncol02]

Great news, Psychonauts 2 was excellent. Be interesting what they can do with a big budget on UE5.

With this there is a fair few games we know Xbox are working on but haven't been announced.

The Coalition
id
inXile
Double Fine

Roundhouse Studios, Arcane Lyon, Compulsion, Zenimax Online is supposedly working on another game and I don't believe that MachineGames was doing nothing before they announced Indiana Jones. There are also rumored (or even confirmed) games from external studios that are unannounced (IO, Kojima, Brass Lion).
We also technically don't know what game will 343 make next (not that anyone is probably waiting for it).

 

[Jaybe]

.Pennywise where does it say AAA?

 

[anthony2690]

Double fine was not a company I had any expectations for at all.

But Psychonauts 2 was such a genuine surprise & was easily one of my fave games of 2021.

 

[Punished Miku]

Double fine was not a company I had any expectations for at all.

But Psychonauts 2 was such a genuine surprise & was easily one of my fave games of 2021.

Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, InXile are the ones I have the highest expectations for. They've always had skill, and zero funding. Ninja Theory was making Star Wars toy games at one point for Disney just to pay the bills. This will hopefully be Double Fine Unleashed. They've really never had that, even when published under EA I'm sure there were concerns regarding profitability and consumer appeal.

 

[anthony2690]

Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, InXile are the ones I have the highest expectations for. They've always had skill, and zero funding. Ninja Theory was making Star Wars toy games at one point for Disney just to pay the bills. This will hopefully be Double Fine Unleashed. They've really never had that, even when published under EA I'm sure there were concerns regarding profitability and consumer appeal.

I know I'm in the minority but I'm not too excited for Ninja Theory, I really did not like Hellblade sadly. (Absolutely loved Enslaved though, I wish they would revisit this ip)

I am not even sure who I'm most looking forward to seeing games from, I know I'm really looking forward to Tokyo Ghostwire & Redfall in the near future though.

Maybe Coalition? I need more Gears in my life.

Or whoever gives me a new killer instinct

But I'm looking forward to being pleasantly surprised in the future with whatever comes, like with Hi Fi Rush currently, done the first seven levels and love it so far

 

[FBeeEye]

Grim Fandango 2

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

let's pray everyone. hope everything goes double fine and in a timely manner.

 

[Heisenberg007]

PSA: The job description never once mentioned AAA.

Good luck to Double Fine in whatever they make, though.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

.Pennywise where does it say AAA?

Psychonauts 2 was better than many games "AAA" or otherwise, so if it's just another thing at that caliber, I'd welcome it.

 

[Labadal]

Original IP, please. Or their own IP.

 

[Kvally]

Sounds good to me, lets see it!

 

[mdkirby]

Please be a double fine game, and not a “we’ve always wanted to broaden our horizons and dream bigger, and now with Microsoft’s support, we can. so here’s our multiplayer GAAS arena combat game”

 

[Bernkastel]

New Banjo game?

Tim Schafer has directly denied it.

.Pennywise where does it say AAA?

Here

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/double-fine-psychonauts-2-is-working-on-a-aaa-game.1538817/

let's pray everyone. hope everything goes double fine and in a timely manner.

You are already Double Concerned from a job listing.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Tim Schafer has directly denied it.

Here

http://[URL]https://www.neogaf.com/...ychonauts-2-is-working-on-a-aaa-game.1538817/

[/URL]

You are already Double Concerned from a job listing.

no

 

[Deerock71]

And they're just starting now? We'll see it in 2030.

 

[Bernkastel]

And they're just starting now? We'll see it in 2030.

People were already working on it in 2020.

 

[Riky]

E3 shadow drop, make it happen.

 

[Camreezie]

Psychonauts 2 was dope so im hype for whatevers next

 

[Zathalus]

Pretty sure this game is going to be great... when it releases in 2027.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

People were already working on it in 2020.

how....the year of the pandemic. is like if they weren't.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Brutal legend or im not interested

 

[Gorgyles]

I feel like they're always announcing plans to make games, but fresh exclusives never come out.
Last week's Hi-Fi was a great surprise, though.

If Double Fine finally makes a playable game that would be rad.
Maybe UE5 will help.

 

[Riky]

I feel like they're always announcing plans to make games, but fresh exclusives never come out.
Last week's Hi-Fi was a great surprise, though.

If Double Fine finally makes a playable game that would be rad.
Maybe UE5 will help.

They haven't announced anything it's a job advert. A fresh exclusive came out last week, like you said.

 

[Bernkastel]

how....the year of the pandemic. is like if they weren't.

I literally linked to a thread from 2020 where a Double Fine employee mentioned in his LinkedIn bio that they are working on an unannounced AAA project.

 

[Bernkastel]

I feel like they're always announcing plans to make games, but fresh exclusives never come out.

What was announced?

 

[Chukhopops]

E3 shadow drop, make it happen.

There is a chance both this and the new InXile game are announced at the same E3, which for me would make it an instant 10/10 conference.

If Double Fine finally makes a playable game that would be rad.
Maybe UE5 will help.

What kind of utter nonsense is this.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I literally linked to a thread from 2020 where a Double Fine employee mentioned in his LinkedIn bio that they are working on an unannounced AAA project.

let me put it in this way:

2020 was a lost year in development.

 

[sachos]

Good

 

[SportsFan581]

New Banjo game?

Didn't someone from there say they had no plans to work on IPs that weren't their own?

Super excited to see what they come up with next. Psychonauts 2 was excellent. I wonder if the next game will be a platformer or an adventure game, I'm hoping for another platformer myself.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

New Banjo game?

They would do a better job than Rare for sure

 

[Barlow]

They've already said that they will do own IPs instead of others like Rare etc.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I would expect them to be working on a new video game. Is the AAA budget the thing that is surprising?

 

[GametimeUK]

Psychonauts 2 is one of the best games for me so far this generation. I will definitely be interested in Double Fine's next game. I really hope we get to see Microsoft knock it out of the park with their studios.

 

[kuncol02]

I feel like they're always announcing plans to make games, but fresh exclusives never come out.
Last week's Hi-Fi was a great surprise, though.

If Double Fine finally makes a playable game that would be rad.
Maybe UE5 will help.

How the fuck do you expect them to hire new devs without job adverts? Did you even read post you are commenting about?
Also what you mean by "If Double Fine finally makes a playable game that would be rad."? Psychonauts 2 was easily in top 3 games of 2021.

 

[nikolino840]

105 120 k ... is low high medium?

 

[YCoCg]

It'd be great if they went back and revived one of their concept games, Mnemonic was a first person puzzle solving game set in this neo noir universe, with a big budget I could really see it working out.

 

[KXVXII9X]

Please be a double fine game, and not a “we’ve always wanted to broaden our horizons and dream bigger, and now with Microsoft’s support, we can. so here’s our multiplayer GAAS arena combat game”

I think I would punch a wall if that happened lol