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Summary

This proposal is to hire Larko to work full-time on the Dope Wars MMORPG game.

Background

Larko joined the discord a few days ago and started contributing to the game development discussion. He put together a prototype game using the Phaser game engine as a demonstration. The Phaser game engine supports the sorts of interactions we are interested in developing with a particularly good story around development since it is Typescript based and easily for the rest of the team to contribute.

From Larko:

I wasnt always into game dev but instead got in when I started going into more low level stuff. When I started learning about compilers, cpu, gpu, memory and low level languages like c/c++ and assembly, and that is why I write most of my games and project in low level languages and by directly interacting with the graphics API. I’m more of a “from scratch” guy than someone who will just be using an engine like unity and that won’t care about the intrinsics. Most of the games I made were in C/C++ and using OpenGL, ranging from 2d simple games, 2.5d (world in 2d but graphics in ~3d) to 3d. For eg. some of the projects I made include a raycaster, in the style of the wolfenstein one back in the day, simulators (gsim for eg.) and a voxel minecraft clone (which is nice because tile based games are pretty similar to voxel games in way, we just deal with squares instead of cubes, and in tile based games, we obviously dont need to care about the complex culling stuff). Something also great about the fact that I learned game dev using opengl is that I obviously know shaders and how the pipeline works so we can do pretty neat stuff with webgl by using GLSL shaders. In this case we will be using phaser so we can embed glsl if the context supports webgl. Outside of “concrete game dev”, I also have a background in game modding, I learned a ton of things thanks to it and by reverse engineering games, I learned some code and game dev architecture best practices (or bad, we dont know). I also have been dealing with networking and know how to use some of the available technologies. As for the front end and software engineering side of things, I’m not that rusty and have some good knowledge of the latest technologies out here. I use typescript and THREE.js for my prototyping and have already written code with next and react js.

github: https://github.com/Larkooo

Rate: $69.420 / hr. paid in eth at the end of each month

Commitment: 40hr / week until end jan, 20hr / week after