According to a Job Application from the Call Of Duty developer Treyarch, “Treyarch is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a position on the team bringing our hugely successful game to a new console.”
Although the Call Of Duty franchise was not directly mentioned in the application, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, designed by Treyarch, sold just over 25 million copies last August.
The studio has not created a product outside of the Call Of Duty franchise since their 2008 James Bond: Quantum Of Solace and Spider-Man: Webs Of Shadows.
The full job application is shown below.
Description
Treyarch is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a position on the team bringing our hugely successful game to a new console. This engineer will work in graphics, the content pipeline, optimization, and tools. He or she will bring breadth and depth in programming to solve a variety of problems and ship a high quality game.
The ideal candidate:
· Communicates effectively within a large team
· Is effective working with high and low level code
· Writes clean code, avoids hacks
· Knows when to be conservative, when to be ambitious
· Gets stuff done
Responsibilities:
· Adapt graphics and other major systems in our engine to a new platform
· Extend and optimize the content pipeline and tools
· Review work from other engineers
· Solve problems by writing scripts in python or perl
· Contribute ideas and best practices to our technology, development process, and culture
Requirements:
· Expert in C/C++
· Thorough understanding of modern graphics techniques
· Experience with CPU and GPU optimization
· Strong 3D Math
· Shipped 2 or more console titles
· More than 2 years experience working on Xbox360 or PS3
They could simply be porting Call Of Duty to a console that previously did not have it, or they may be creating an entirely new Call Of Duty title for an upcoming console, such as the PlayStation 4, the next Xbox or the Wii U.
Either way, I can’t wait to see what they do.
And the console is, of course, the wii u, a nintendo console that will finally have decent graphics, which I guess lost after the super nintendo.