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General Information

Playdead is a studio of 15 people, located on Pilestræde 43 in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. We are currently working on our next title, following the release of LIMBO.

You will become part of a production, which has a flat leadership structure in an artistic, creative and highly ambitious environment. We expect you to, like the rest of the team, to perform pro-actively and on your own initiative. It would be considered positive if you speak and understand Danish.

To apply for any of these positions, go to http://www.limbogame.org/apply with your CV and personalized cover letter. Since we’re a small company please allow a good measure of time for your application to be processed.

Platform Programmer

We are looking for a programmer to port our games for new platforms.

We have already released a game on X360, PS3, Windows, OSX and OnLive and we are continuously investigating other possible platforms. Your job is primarily porting to new platforms and secondarily maintaining current platforms. Our engine is written in C++, with an architecture made for multiple platforms.

We are currently investigating following new platforms; iOS, Win8, Android, NACL and other platforms could become relevant as well.

We are expecting the following from you:

We prefer that you’re able to work from our office in the center of Copenhagen to feel part of the team and for better day to day communication.

Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced project manager to help organize our day to day business.

Responsibilities cover everything a young game studio needs, including:

Gameplay Designers

Playdead is expanding. We are looking for talented gameplay designers to work on the ambitious follow-up project to Limbo – our highly successful debut title.

As a gameplay designer at Playdead, your main responsibility is to design and build challenging levels as well as prototype new intriguing game mechanics. Our approach to level design is artistic, iterative, and based on rapid prototyping in favor of design manuals. You will be expected to prototype your own ideas, and should therefore be experienced in using game editors and visual scripting languages.

Responsibilities include

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Game Programmers

Playdead is expanding. We are looking for talented game programmers to work on the ambitious follow-up project to Limbo – our highly successful debut title.

As a game programmer at Playdead, your main responsibility is to assist the gameplay designers in prototyping game mechanics, such as new enemies or puzzle mechanisms. Also, you will be expected to implement features for more advanced game systems such as camera and path-finding systems. Finally, you need to be passionate about games and interested in what qualities ultimately make the game fun.

Responsibilities include

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