We've been in a weird predicament at work. How often are you working on a game and the publisher decides, "You know what, our original strategy probably isn't going to work out, so we've decided you guys should switch platforms, we'll give you another year of development time, and we're going to give you a boat load of more money"? Well, that is what has happened with us.

This is a boon, blessing, terrifying, and crappy all at the same time. On one hand, I was going to be the head honcho designer on a cool game and now I'm going to have to step back a bit and hand the reigns so to speak over to someone else with more experience, on the other hand I'm getting to work on a MUCH bigger budget project and I'm going to have a much more senior designer to learn from now, which will realistically result in a better game.

For the past couple of days I've been interviewing potential senior designers along with my current boss, the senior producer. It is kind of weird screening for someone who is going to more or less be taking my spot and is going to be my boss. I'm having to evaluate these people on who is going to be a great mentor for me AND who is going to give us the best bang for the buck for this project.

So anyways, we're hiring [wink] Anyone who happens to be a senior level designer or senior level producer who is looking for a job or just plain a new job on a cool project, go ahead and apply! These two positions are for our Austin studio. Job listings are on our website at blacklanternstudios.com.