I can’t read japanese, but the art style and craftsmanship makes my mouth water.
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Motion design in UI is the new black
Motionographer has a nice post on how motion design is becoming a powerful technique in designing user interfaces in games. You can see a similar trend in broadcast sports. What really grabs me is that its not just about wow factor, but also an elegant way to show us, info-addicts, more good information.
inspiration for your process
We love beautiful things here at Hive7 and nothing is more inspiring than a beautiful trailer that not only has playful character design, but an amazing technical production. One thing we try to do here at Hive7 is to find things that will inspire us to experiment and evolve how we do things. Being able to channel that excitement into exploring new technologies and tools is an important part of our creative process.
This trailer comes from one of my favorite motion design blogs, motionographer.
Knighthood is one of the top 25 games on facebook!
Inside Social Games did a nice little post ranking all the games according to monthly active users. This is cool.
top 25 games on facebook
Flash Actionscript Developer
Hive7 is looking for a rockstar flash developer who has experience building avatar customization systems or flash-based virtual worlds. We’re looking for someone with both client side and server experience who can build an extensible system that can be plugged into all our games.
Requirements:
- prior experience working on the following web based avatar systems, or similar: stardoll, barbiegirls, habbohotel
- proficiency in actionscript 3.0 & 2.0
- familiarity with html/css/javascript/xml
- solid understanding OOP concepts and able to architect code in a scalable, extensible way.
- knowledge of database schema design
- ability to integrate into a ASP.NET, MS SQL environment
- 4+ years working on flash games/high traffic social websites
Bonus
- have worked with flash 3d frameworks like papervision or Away3d
Web Game Developer
Are you excited about new social platforms roaring to life? Already
launched your own Facebook app or played with Open Social? Do you love games
and passionate about social entertainment? If you do then we have “Job 2.0”
for you! We are looking for more brilliant web hackers and game
developers to expand our team!
Candidates must:
- Be brilliant developers (non-negotiable) addicted to the
web - Have passion to design, build and polish great, simple, fun web
applications - Be driven to succeed & self-motivated,
- Be comfortable working independently and owning a project from start to
finish.
Candidates must have:
- Deep knowledge of at least one web framework
(ASP.NET/PHP/RoR/etc) - God-like knowledge of (C#|PHP|R), Javascript,
XHTML, CSS. - Self starter, hands on attitude.
- Love for writing huge amounts of high quality code while shipping insanely great
apps.
Bonus points:
- Experience with ASP.NET AJAX
- Understanding if IIS
architecture and hosting - Understanding of Design Patterns concepts,
software architecture, UML - Experience working on web / online
games
In exchange, we offer:
- Massive amounts of creative freedom
- Insanely flexible
working environment - Great team of mad technologists, elitist
designers and prima-donna artists with healthy bent on world
domination
Send links to web sites you created, games you build, all social networks
you wrote by the age of five. Years of experience slaving away in brand name
cubicle farm are utterly irrelevant.
