Well, it looks like we're getting at least one more AAA immersive sim game.
For context, Arkane Austin has approximately doubled their number of open job positions since our last thread a week or two ago, and this has revealed some new details.
Highlights:
1.) One of the job postings explicitly says "Our style of immersive simulation and emergent gameplay creates many challenges." and goes on to talk about how this job posting is for their new game with online.
2.) I am suspicious they have moved to idtech6 given there's a bunch of job postings that ask for engine experience and all list id's technologies like idtech or radiant first as examples. Prey was on CryEngine 3. Mind, it could just be company spirit, but I'm sticking with my suspicion.
3.) The job postings feature a first person weapons artist that makes guns and gun attachments, so it's probably a shooter of some kind.
4.) A ton of these job postings are for online experience and technology, even among positions like Art Director.
5.) Some of the jobs talk about making FPS levels and one even talks about making "maps".
6.) A lot of people have pointed out that Bethesda renewed the trademark for The Crossing, which was Arkane's online shooter/immersive sim game thing. I have to say that fits really well with these job postings.
7.) It's worth noting they have approximately three times as many job openings versus Arkane Lyon of Dishonored 2 game (17 vs 5), so that studio may not have decided what to do yet, whereas Arkane Austin has clearly been given the greenlight to mass hire.
8.) Sone of the job postings talk about "next-generation consoles", but many developers still use that term to refer to the PS4 and XB1, so I wouldn't read too much into that unless the job postings are very explicit they mean the actual next generation of consoles. Mind, we are around that time of the generation for new projects.
Some notable postings:
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1642 (Immersive sim listing)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1634 (Weapon artist, first person and idtech notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1447 (Online, live game notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1610(Art Director with online notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1644 (Talks about "maps", more idtech listings)
General job page: https://jobs.zenimax.com/locations/view/3
For context, Arkane Austin has approximately doubled their number of open job positions since our last thread a week or two ago, and this has revealed some new details.
Highlights:
1.) One of the job postings explicitly says "Our style of immersive simulation and emergent gameplay creates many challenges." and goes on to talk about how this job posting is for their new game with online.
2.) I am suspicious they have moved to idtech6 given there's a bunch of job postings that ask for engine experience and all list id's technologies like idtech or radiant first as examples. Prey was on CryEngine 3. Mind, it could just be company spirit, but I'm sticking with my suspicion.
3.) The job postings feature a first person weapons artist that makes guns and gun attachments, so it's probably a shooter of some kind.
4.) A ton of these job postings are for online experience and technology, even among positions like Art Director.
5.) Some of the jobs talk about making FPS levels and one even talks about making "maps".
6.) A lot of people have pointed out that Bethesda renewed the trademark for The Crossing, which was Arkane's online shooter/immersive sim game thing. I have to say that fits really well with these job postings.
7.) It's worth noting they have approximately three times as many job openings versus Arkane Lyon of Dishonored 2 game (17 vs 5), so that studio may not have decided what to do yet, whereas Arkane Austin has clearly been given the greenlight to mass hire.
8.) Sone of the job postings talk about "next-generation consoles", but many developers still use that term to refer to the PS4 and XB1, so I wouldn't read too much into that unless the job postings are very explicit they mean the actual next generation of consoles. Mind, we are around that time of the generation for new projects.
Some notable postings:
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1642 (Immersive sim listing)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1634 (Weapon artist, first person and idtech notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1447 (Online, live game notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1610(Art Director with online notes)
https://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/1644 (Talks about "maps", more idtech listings)
General job page: https://jobs.zenimax.com/locations/view/3