Game Development
GameHouse Studios, the award winning game studio of RealGames, is a leading provider of games serving the Casual Games market since 2000 and has over 75 games to its credit. We have an open environment and value creativity and hard work. GameHouse has short development cycles and no death marches. We try to foster a fun and creative work environment.
GameHouse Studios is based in Seattle (USA) and Eindhoven (Netherlands), formely known as Zylom Game studio. For both our locations we’re looking for talented people to join our team:
GameHouse Studio Europe (Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
GameHouse Studio USA (Seattle, Washington)
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Lead Artist - Eindhoven
Creative, driven and ingenious: that’s you! You’re a multitalented illustrator with leadership skills ready for the next step.In your role you will be the more experienced in our team and you create the graphical style of our games together with the Art Director. In addition, it’s your responsibility to translate this into the graphical design and you manage your team members.
Your profile:
- Big passion for creating worlds and characters
- Clear vision on lighting, atmosphere and graphical style
- Able to create a coherent style
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator and animation
- Experience in managing creative team member
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- Experience level: 5 years
Interested?
Mail your resume, motivational letter and your portfolio to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Senior Artist - Eindhoven
Are you a virtual van Gogh or a digital Da Vinci? GameHouse challenges you to illustrate our games! Together with the team of Game designer, Art director, Game producer, Developers and Graphical artists you're responsible for the graphics and design of the game. There's enough room for creativity and we value input for future games.
Your profile:
- All-round illustrator
- Big passion for drawing and illustration
- You master different illustrative styles and techniques, like character development and perspective drawing
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator and animation
- Flexible, proactive, decisive and striving for achievement
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- Experience level: 4 years
Interested?
Mail your resume, motivational letter and your portfolio to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Concept Artist - Eindhoven
A pleasant design brings our games to life! That's why we need you: a creative illustrator who can add a special atmosphere to our games. You will work with our Art director to create the graphical style of our games. You have a sense of which atmosphere and environment fits best to our games. In addition you are experienced in setting and creating style impressions and pleasant worlds. There's enough room for creativity and we value input for future games.
Your profile:
- Illustrator with a passion for atmospheres and environments
- Big passion for drawing and illustration
- You master different illustrative styles and techniques, like character development and perspective
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator. Experience with animation is preferred
- Flexible, proactive, decisive and striving for achievement
- HBO degree
- Experience level: 3 years
Interested?
Mail your resume, motivational letter and your portfolio to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Special Effects Artist - Eindhoven
Creating special effects and animation is a game to you? Let GameHouse unleash your powers on our games! In your role you're responsible for creating all effects and feedback animations for our games. Together with a programmer you search for new techniques and graphical styles which can be added to our games.
Your profile:
- Creative illustrator with a craze for special effects
- Big passion for technique and special effects
- You never run out of ideas on the area of special effects and techniques
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator. Experience with animation is preferred
- Flexible, proactive, decisive and striving for achievement
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- Experience level: 3 years
Interested?
Mail your resume, motivational letter and your portfolio to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Senior 2D Animator - Eindhoven
Bring our characters and environments to life with professional 2D animations. You master timing and are capable to express subtle emotion via pencil and paper. You have excellent experience in current animation techniques and you are able to develop new techniques together with our developers.
Your profile:
- 2D animator with passion for characters
- Big passion for drawing and animation
- You master different illustrative styles and techniques, like character development and perspective
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator and animation
- Flexible, proactive, decisive and striving for achievement
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- Experience level: 4 years
Interested?
Mail your resume, motivational letter and your portfolio to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Game developer postproduction - Eindhoven
As part of the postproduction team you're responsible for the localization of games, the implementation (together with developer) of platform specific features like advertisements and community. In this role you're dealing with external developers, translators and our QA department. You are a contributor to our continuous optimization of the postproduction process.
Your profile:
- Experience in different development environments like C++, JAVA, Flash
- Intermediate experience in Photoshop and scripting
- You enjoy coping with a lot of simultaneous projects and deadlines
- Good communication skills
- Flexible, accurate, structured, proactive, timely and you have a passion for games
- Experience in localization is preferred
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- You master the English language
Interested?
Mail your resume and motivational letter to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Senior Game developer - Eindhoven
We are looking for an organized and focused individual to help develop and deliver our casual games. You are responsible for the programming of these games. You will work with a small team to ensure on time delivery of high quality games.
Your profile:
- Experienced C++ programmer
- Experience in game development is preferred
- Capable of estimating the work to be done and deliver games in time together with the team
- Good overview of a software development cycle
- Able to deliver high quality and bug free games
- Experience with multiple delivery platforms (e.g. Windows and Mac OS X) is preferred
- Experience in Lua, OpenGL or DirectX is preferred
- Good communication skills
- Flexible, accurate, structured, proactive, timely and you have a passion for games
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- Experience level: 5 years
- You master the English language
Interested?
Mail your resume and motivational letter to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Level designer - Eindhoven
You’re responsible for creating the levels for our games and making sure we hit the perfect balance in fun, diversity and challenge. You will work with game designers and support them during game development.
There’s enough room to expand your creativity and influence the games that will be produced in the future.
Your profile:
- You are passionate about games and know what is crucial for the fun games
- You are experienced in level design
- Experience in game design and/or a degree in gaming education is preferred
- Good communication skills
- Flexible, passionate, stress resistant and above all, a creative mind are essential for this job
- Minimum: Bachelor degree
- You master the English language
Interested?
Mail your resume and motivational letter to:
Naam: Mark van Kuijk
E-mail:
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Executive Producer - Seattle
GameHouse has an opportunity for a Casual Games Executive Producer to manage the design and development of online and downloadable games. The Executive Producer will be responsible for budgeting & scheduling game development, managing the QA process, and preparing the product to be released to the general public. The Executive Producer will work closely with programmers, artists, sound designers, testers, and other key members within GameHouse and RealArcade.
Primary responsibilities include both managing and mentoring game Producers and working with the development team to create content opportunities for Gamehouse's and RealArcade's game sites. Qualifications include exceptionally strong management and communication skills, the ability to identify content that will sell, and strong creative thinking. Ideal candidates should have game development experience in casual games or online downloadable games. Requires minimum of 5-7 years relevant.
Mentor and manage 2-3 game producers. Responsible for tracking all games in development and making sure quality games are delivered on schedule. Communication with other key departments (Marketing, PR, etc…) and responsible for identifying and removing roadblocks for successful game development within the studio.
Manage projects from product conception and design through development and launch for downloadable and online games.
Manage production schedules to ensure agreed upon milestones are delivered on time, design documents are kept current, and budgets are maintained.
Work closely with team members to make sure they have what they need, they understand what and when their deliverables are, and that a high level of communication is maintained.
Review game design, and later into the development - review actual live gameplay - and provide direction with respect to all aspects of production, including art, UI, performance, game play balancing, difficulty level, platforms, and file sizes.
Assist in developing marketing materials to support product launches, including product descriptions, screen shots, banner ads, FAQs, and dedicated web pages.
Develop post-launch strategy for creating retail, mobile phone, international, and Mac ports.
Hitting measurable and achievable quarterly objectives as it relates to GameHouse's and RealArcade's strategy. Be responsible for delivering games on schedule and producing a positive ROI for the year.
Your profile:
- Manage team(s) and development resources effectively
- Management of other project managers and/or producers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills including scheduling, budgeting, and keeping projects on track
- Ability to work effectively in both individual and team settings
- Must be a self-starter and have sustained initiative
- Prior experience in producing PC games, preferably casual games or downloadable online games
- Strong technical knowledge to evaluate feasibility of design documents and tradeoffs when considering implementation plans
- Working knowledge of: Excel, PowerPoint, and some version of Bug Tracking S/W
- Passion for games
- Minimum 4-year college degree (MBA a plus)
- Minimum 5-7 years experience in gaming industry
- Minimum 3-5 years as an Executive Producer, Producer or Project Manager
- Must have worked on at least 5 published games (any platform)
Product management experience with casual games or on-line downloadable games
- Experience with various project management tools: MS Project and/or Agile
Interested?
Mail your resume and motivational letter to:
Naam: Steve van Horn
E-mail:
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JR. Software Development Engineer - Seattle
We seek an organized and focused individual to help develop and deliver these titles. The SDE, Downloadable Games will be responsible for programming these games. This person will work closely with a small team to ensure on time delivery of high quality games. Duties include developing games using a cross-platform framework, finding and fixing bugs, and coordinating with other members of the team on development and delivery schedules.
The person in this role should ideally have been involved in shipping shrink-wrap software (either physically delivered or downloadable) with a consumer focus. Knowledge of C++ development is required. Experience creating games is a big plus.
Your profile:
- Minimum: Intermediate level C and C++ knowledge
- Experience with multiple delivery platforms (e.g. Windows and Mac OS X) is preferred
- Experience in Lua, OpenGL or DirectX is preferred
- BS Computer science, related degree or equivalent experience, MS is preferred
- Minimum: 3+ years engineering shrink-wrap software. Game development experience with multiple shipped titles is preferred.
Interested?
Mail your resume and motivational letter to:
Naam: Steve van Horn
E-mail:
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