Capture Specialist

Title: Capture Specialist (Hybrid)

Location: Farnborough England GB

Workplace: Hybrid remote

Job Description:

We are looking for a talented Capture Specialist to join our Creative team, to create amazing and impactful marketing assets, across both nDreams' own titles and those of our sister publisher Megabit.

 

The rundown:

• 6 month fixed term contract

• Full time (37.5 hours per week)

• Hybrid

• Salary is competitive and dependent on experience

 

This is a technical creative role supporting our marketing video team in capturing VR gameplay footage from our first and third-party videogames. This will include:

• Capturing in-game video footage from in-progress or live game builds.

• Utilising gameplay capture tools and in engine cameras.

• Editing and versioning trailers, or other video media for various marketing platforms, such as digital stores and social media.

• Physically performing within VR environments to capture emotive gameplay.

• Assisting in guiding players during large group capture sessions.

• Identify and report build problems.

• Helping to maintain VR hardware and ensuring game build versioning is up to date.

Requirements

The skills you'll need:

• Experience capturing engaging VR and flat-screen gameplay footage for use in trailers and social media assets.

• Good working knowledge of Premiere Pro and video post production workflows including framerates and professional codecs.

• Experience capturing gameplay from Meta Quest, PlayStation and PC platforms.

• An understanding of debug / in-engine cameras and capture terminology.

• Experience in a professional marketing/publishing/agency role in/around the games industry

• An understanding how asset versioning works across various channels.

• Ability to work in engine such as Unreal Editor or Unity would be advantageous.

• Great organisational skills.

• File naming and storage best-practices.

• Able to work efficiently across multiple projects.

• An ability to work to deadlines.

Your experience:

• Experienced within VR headsets, able to spend multiple hours in capture.

• Highly collaborative, comfortable iterating through feedback from both commercial and creative stakeholders.

• Efficient working to deadlines, managing multiple tasks and projects simultaneously

• An effective and personable communicator across different disciplines and seniorities

• Knowledgeable and passionate about video games and the video game industry.

Benefits

We are nDreams - we develop and publish the world's most immersive VR games. You may know us as the developer behind Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and Frenzies. As a publisher, we have also supported the release of other studio's titles including Little Cities, PowerWash Simulator VR, and Vendetta Forever. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects with a personal, caring touch. We've got more incredible titles to be announced soon!

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing interviewing@ndreams.com or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.

We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there's an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.