Concept Artist

• https://www.frostgiant.com/
• Irvine, California
• Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

We're looking for a skilled, experienced, and driven concept artist to help us make our new real-time strategy game a reality.  As part of the Frost Giant Art team, you'll play a pivotal role shaping the creation of our new RTS.  We're a new and tight-knit team with a history of success in the videogame industry.  Because of our small size, everything you work on will have a major impact on the final product, from influencing in-game art, to cinematics, to marketing materials.  There's ...

To be clear, the primary purpose of that section was to paint a picture of how RTS might be exotic to newer players. We certainly don't have any plans of implementing WASD controls as the primary way you control movement or the camera.

We've read everything that's posted on the sub. That being said, it's a lot of content for a small team that's focused on the early stages of building a game. Our current strategy to handle this is to condense the back-and-forth communication to the bi-monthly discussion topics and responses, which in themselves take a fair amount of time to construct.

The discussion so far has been really great and reminds me of the deconstructive RTS essays in the early days of StarCraft II on Teamliquid.

It's more popular. Source: I'm an ex-dev.

Thanks for the enthusiasm! We printed a very limited run of the shirts as a thank you/holiday present for some friends of the company who helped us with internal feedback sessions. No current plans to set up a storefront at the moment, but it's something we've definitely talked down the road, especially once we're more settled down with our prototype/game and have staffed up.

Cool survey and nice to see you again, Timetwister =)

From a design perspective, I have two favorites for two different reasons. It's a total coincidence that they're both Zerg units. Please don't read too much into it!

I wasn't on the team during the initial development of WoL, but the Baneling must have been a very controversial unit. In general, I think there's this idea that people don't like using suicide units; it just doesn't follow the common RTS fantasy of building up the most powerful army possible over time. (For similar reasons, Zagara was thought to be a very risky Co-op Commander.) And yes, I know Scourge were a thing in SC1, but the Baneling was designed to be a core unit in SC2, something players are supposed to interact with in nearly every game.

Though there's certainly some controversy about this unit, especially recently, I think overall, this unit turned out beautifully and certainly exceeded my expectations. After all, it's a key component of one of the most beloved interactions...

hi blade55555. we meet again.

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