Blizzard rimasterizza Diablo II e Warcraft III: in cerca di sviluppatori

Tramite un comunicato per la ricerca di un nuovo Senior Software Enginering, Blizzard conferma l’intenzione, come recentemente già fatto per StarCraft, di portare avanti il programma per attualizzare alcuni dei loro videogiochi più famosi ed apprezzati: parliamo di Diablo II e Warcraft III.

Nella nota, che riportiamo nel seguito per interno, è specificato: “Stiamo ripristinando la loro gloria, e abbiamo bisogno del tuo talento di ingegneria, della tua passione e della tua capacità di portare a termine lavori importanti”.

Quindi sicuramente non a breve vedremo una nuova versione di questi titoli, se siete del settore ed appassionati dei videogiochi marchiati Blizzard, dalla stessa pagina del comunicato è possibile inoltrare la propria candidatura per poter contrinuire alla rimasterizzazione di questi due capitoli. 

“Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

If you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, we would love to hear from you”

Responsibilities

• Implement server infrastructure changes to support new gameplay features.
• Improve architecture design to reduce operation cost
• Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
• Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
• Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc.
• Implement, maintain, and own infrastructure for the Diablo franchise

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of C / C++
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in development
• Experience with client / server architecture
• Experience debugging unfamiliar code
• A mind towards scalability and performance
• Passion for games
• Excite us

Pluses

• Linux development experience
• Database experience (e.g., MySQL, Oracle)
• Distributed systems experience
• Cloud technologies (AWS, VM’s, Openstack)
• Low level network knowledge and diagnosis including packet capture (e.g., tcpdump, wireshark), routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, and NAT busting

Autore: GAMEmag – Videogames