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Looking for our Marketing Manager

Company: Sunshine Lab is a videogame studio specializing in casual games for mobile and touch platforms. To prepare the launch of our next game we are looking for a creative and passionate Marketing Manager to join our team. Job Description: You will join a team of seasoned developers and you will be responsible to define the marketing strategy for the studio’s next game, implement and monitor it. You will report directly to the COO and work with the creative teams. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Create and manage viral marketing presence across the industry leading web sites, blogs, forums… and maintain a press review book.
  • Build Sunshine Lab’s community, be the spokesperson, create events, engage the community on a regular basis
  • Develop relationship with the major mobile game/application web sites
  • Represent the studio and the game in major videogame shows and events
  • Brief and follow up of specialized marketing creative agency / PR for marketing strategy and key assets production
  • Manage the marketing budget, monitor marketing actions efficiency and adapt strategy accordingly
  • Prepare marketing materials including videos, description texts, screenshots and press summaries and distribute them to mobile game/application web sites and apps
  • Manage promotions, email marketing campaigns, online / in game advertising campaigns
  • Manage Sunshine Lab and its titles websites, social networks and blogs
  • Maintain competitive reviews and nurture the development team with market and consumer knowledge.

This position is a great opportunity to participate in the dynamic game industry, on a sector (mobile) that is particularly interesting and challenging marketing wise and growing exponentially today. Skills:

  • Experience and knowledgeable in online marketing, PR and social networking
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with writing game summaries, blogs, collecting screenshots and submitting marketing packages.
  • Knowledge of the main mobile games and applications sites
  • Video editing knowledge/experience preferred
  • Passion for games!

Contract: CDD, internship or freelance mission. The position could evolve to permanent contract. Mission duration: 5 to 12 months from May 2011 Location: The team is working remotely so you will be able to work from home, with the possibility to work part time in our offices in Paris or Montpellier. Rate: According to experience and qualification (+ bonus). If you are interested, please send a mail with your resume and a few lines about your motivation to audrey@sunshine-lab.com.

Sunshine Lab is looking for a senior 3d/2d animator

URGENT – Do you like crabs, shrimps, squids? Sunshine Lab is looking for a senior 3d/2d animator To make the squids and crustaceans of our 2D game come to life (and death). – Create the 3d characters animations in Maya (/Max) – export to sprite sheet – Notions of character set up / rigging / skinning – At ease with cute & kawaii animation style – Work as a freelance (from anywhere) Contact: Audrey at sunshinelab.com

Season’s greetings from Sunshine Lab

Wishing you happy holidays and the best for the year to come,
Audrey & Emeric
Sunshine Lab

 

 

Sunshine Lab is looking for a Marketing Internship

Company:Sunshine Lab is a videogame studio specializing in social games for mobile and touch platforms. To prepare the launch of our next game we are looking for a creative and passionate marketing intern to join our team.Job Description:You will join a team of seasoned developers and you will be responsible to define the marketing strategy for the studio’s games and apps, implement and monitor it. You will report directly to the COO and work with the creative teams. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Create and manage viral marketing presence across the industry leading web sites, blogs, forums… and maintain a press review book.
  • Build Sunshine Lab’s community, be the spokesperson, create events, engage the community on a regular basis
  • Develop relationship with the major mobile game/application web sites
  • Participate in the brief and follow up of specialized marketing creative agency and PR for marketing strategy and key assets production
  • Participate in the marketing budget decisions, monitor marketing actions efficiency and adapt strategy accordingly
  • Prepare marketing materials including videos, description texts, screenshots and press summaries and distribute them to mobile game/application web sites and apps
  • Manage promotions, email marketing campaigns, online / in game advertising campaigns
  • Manage Sunshine Lab and its titles websites, social networks and blogs
  • Maintain competitive reviews and nurture the development team with market and consumer knowledge.

This internship position is a great opportunity to get your start in the dynamic game industry, on a sector (mobile) that is particularly interesting and challenging marketing wise and growing exponentially today.Skills:

  • Knowledgeable in online marketing, PR and social networking
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with writing game summaries, blogs, collecting screenshots and submitting marketing packages.
  • Knowledge of the main mobile games and applications sites
  • Video editing knowledge/experience preferred
  • Passion for games!

Internship duration: 2 to 9 months from January 2011Location: The team is working remotely so you will be able to work from home, with the possibility to work part time in our offices in Paris or Montpellier.Rate: 500 – 1000 € / months + bonus, according to experience and qualification. The position could evolve to permanent contract or freelance mission.If you are interested, please send a mail with your resume and a few lines about your motivation to audrey at sunshine-lab.com.

Sunshine Lab is looking for a Developer (internship)

Details below – pass the word around.

Société : 
Sunshine Lab est un jeune studio de jeu video spécialisé dans les jeux sociaux pour plateformes tactiles et mobiles. Dans le cadre du développement de son prochain jeu sur iOS et Android, nous recherchons un Développeur créatif et sympathique pour rejoindre notre équipe. 
 
Description du poste : 
Dans un environnement dynamique et stimulant d’une jeune start-up de jeu video, vous intégrez une petite équipe constituée de seniors du jeu video, et vous serez responsable d’une partie du développement du jeu (à définir avec vous selon vos envies et vos compétences). Vous serez rattaché au Directeur technique et au Producer et travaillerez en collaboration avec le directeur créatif, les autres ingénieurs et le directeur artistique.  Profil recherché : 
Ingénieur Bac+5 en stage de fin d’études.
Possibilites d’embauche à la fin du stage. 
Une première expérience en tant que développeur mobile serait apprécié. 

Compétences et expériences appréciées : 
• Maîtrise de la programmation orienté Objet (Objective-C, Java, C++) 
• Bonnes connaissances du framework Cocoa et de l’IDE Xcode 
• Autonome, Sens du travail en équipe, Curieux(se), Envie d’apprendre, Envie de faire un jeu de qualité
• Idéalement vous avez déjà développé une application ou un jeu publié sur l’AppStore ou pour Android
• Passionné par le jeu vidéo

  

Durée du stage: 2 à 9 mois 
Disponibilité : à partir de janvier 2011
Localisation: l’équipe est délocalisée et travaille à domicile mais il y a possibilité de faire du temps partiel dans des bureaux à Paris ou Montpellier.
Rémunération :  de 500€ à 800€ / mois + bonus, en fonction de la formation et de l’expérience. 

Merci d’envoyez un petit mot de motivation, des liens vers vos projets et votre CV à audrey@sunshine-lab.com

Squids, the first week!

That’s it, we have started the work on our first game project, code name Squids…
So many things to say: the design is exciting, the engine team is awesome and really strong in game play, and we have met with a few artists and they are sending us some research this week so we should have very soon the complete team…
We actually already have a very rough prototype. There is nothing in the prototype, just a character and the move controls, even though, I actually enjoy just playing with the character and moving it around. For me this means we have gold in our hands! And wait till you see the first character designs… Well we should be able to cover our websites with squids and reveal a little bit more pretty soon. Stay posted.

(a squid plush from one of the great artists we are talking to)

Looking for Art Director/Character designer&Polyvalent Artist who love SQUIDS!

We are looking for an Art Director/Character designer to design kick-arse cute SQUIDS and their universe for our next game and for a talented polyvalent artist to make them exist in the game. It can be the same person! The positions are freelance, to start mid November, for a 3 months contract first, from wherever you want in the world. The rest of the team is ready. Contact me to know more or send your book! 

illustration courtesy of team Oktapodi

iPokerChips a virtual case of poker chips

So that’s it our first app is available on the AppStore. We are very happy because for us iPokerChips is not only a great app (very handy to play poker everywhere, nice features like players profile and stats, ease of use, …) but it was also our first project on iOS. It was a test project to build a small team with collaborators from around the world, design, develop and debug the best quality app on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as efficiently as possible, localize it in 7 languages, submit it to Apple and – very important – try a few techniques to gain visibility on the App Store (I will write a longer post about that because it’s really interesting). We are pretty happy with the results so far and everything we learned. Check the website and get on the list to win an iPad: http://ipoker-chips.com/ or even better try it yourself on the AppStore  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipokerchips-ipad/id393761263

And EA bought Chillingo

And EA bought Chillingo
Interestingly EA bought the publisher Chillingo (Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, …) to « increase market leadership on the Apple(R) platform and strengthen its position as the world’s leading wireless entertainment publisher. The acquisition combines Chillingo’s expertise in cultivating the ideas of independent developers with EA’s global reach in mobile publishing. Chillingo is widely recognized for publishing highly original and successful games from the developer community. EA is committed to preserving Chillingo’s independence enabling them to manage and cultivate their great network of relationships to deliver the optimal gaming experience for consumers. »

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