Your role within our Kingdom

You will join one of our teams and create amazing visual effects for a broad variety of live games, games under development and prototypes with different styles and genres. You will work with our studios across the Kingdom - London, Barcelona, Berlin, Stockholm, Malmö - as an extension of their teams to develop and deliver the next generation of King games. If you like constant challenge and variety this is the team for you!

Skills to create thrills

• You have experience in the game industry as an expert in VFX creation.
• You’ll have the skills and passion to mentor and help VFX Artists across our company to set new benchmark VFX in our games.
• You have knowledge of a wide and varied range of physical effects and a passion for interpreting them in a digital medium
• You have the ability to innovate, share and promote techniques in 2D and 3D across the company.
• Adaptive in conceptualising, creating and animating various styles and genres of VFX
• Used to working with Photoshop, 3D applications (Maya or 3D Studios Max) and particle editors, as well as After Effect or similar programs for pre-visualising VFX
• Experience in utilising and adapting real time shaders and post processing effects
• Strong knowledge in environmental effects, lighting and dynamics
• You can create original texture sprites and sprite sheets to create particle effects
• Technical expertise and familiarity with game engines and their performance requirements, experience of optimising VFX to run effectively on target hardware
• Knowledge in building VFX libraries, as well as establishing and maintaining a VFX asset pipeline
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Proactive in learning and developing your skills and mentoring others.

Bonus Points

• Ability to write scripts and actions to create VFX
• Experience working in an agile project environment
• Previous experience from creating casual and/or mobile games
• Experience using Unity
• 2D/3D animation

Making the world playful
When it comes to interactive mobile entertainment, we're pretty proud to be number one. We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions everyday through games like Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Make your mark
We're fuelled by a determination to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's an exciting time to join King. As we dream bigger, you'll play an important role in redefining the world of games. Through our creativity and innovation, we'll make the world playful and delight billions of people across the world.

Join & talk to us!