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Web Designer

Job Description

In this volunteer position you will be redesigning Epoch Games Wordpress websites. These include:

• Epoch Games Home Page: https://www.epochgames.co.uk/
• Epoch Games Developer Portal

Depending on your abilities, you may also be asked to:

• Create a Skin for our MediaWiki: https://epochgames.co.uk/wiki/
• Improve the design of our Discourse Forum: https://discourse.epochgames.co.uk/
• Improve the design of our IndieDb page: https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-lays-of-althas-sundered-order

Communication is key to this job title: you must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with other team members. You also should not be afraid to ask any questions should any problems arise. We are an English-speaking team, so English fluency is an absolute must. We are looking for a Web Designer who will be communicating with us Weekly.

This is a volunteer position, so no monetary compensation is being offered.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• WordPress Web Design experience

Optional Requirements:

• MediaWiki experience, particularly in creating a MediaWiki Skin (generally done with CSS)
• Discourse Forum Design experience
• IndieDb Page Design experience (generally done with HTML and CSS)

Additional Information

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Company Description

Epoch Games is a volunteer-based, all-online, global game development team. We have no centrally-located headquarters and are unincorporated at this time. The founding members were modders developing the total conversion Middle Earth Roleplaying Project (MERP) mod for the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/merp-middle-earth-roleplaying-project

Currently Epoch Games is developing The Lays of Althas: Sundered Order (LoA:SO). LoA:SO is an in-development indie open-world RPG set in an original fantasy world. The game is being developed using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 (UE4):
https://www.unrealengine.com/

For more information about the game, please check out our IndieDb page:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-lays-of-althas-sundered-order

NOTE: Although Epoch Games does have a formal office at the listed address, we have a fully-online team at this time. Communication is mostly done via Slack (an instant messaging application) and Trello (an online project collaboration tool).