CodeDev (Unreal Engine Experts)

🚨 Latest Vacancies! 🚨 We have some brilliant projects in the pipeline and need to add some more amazing people to our growing team! Some of our latest open roles are below, if you would like to be considered, please email us at careers@theunrealguys.com or you can reach out to Myke Parrott , Ryan Woodland or Rik Alexander ! All of these roles are fully remote, and working alongside some of the best and brightest in the industry. Come and join the rocket ship! 🚀

The first of 2025 - it's Manuel Gomis! A highly skilled unreal engine multiplayer specialist, in his spare time Manuel will probably be found on a glorious Mallorcan beach - or more likely in the water. Manuel joined CodeDev in December. Feliz ano neuvo!

We would like to wish all of our wonderful team, friends, customers and the wider industry a healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year 🥳 Here’s to making a 2025 an amazing year!!!

🎅 Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas! 🎅

🚨 MEET THE TEAM! 🚨 Today's Christmas cracker of a coder is the brilliant Alex Woodcock! Alex comes with years of industry experience and the passion to carry him on the journey through many more. Alex will be hopefully be cosying up with his loved ones and Mochi the cat this Christmas eating mince pies and carb loading ready for a post Christmas blast through forests on his mountain bike. 🚵

🚨 MEET THE TEAM! 🚨 Ryan Woodland - Our man from over the pond; Seattle based Ryan is an industry legend. A lover of life, Ryan has been there and done it all. His vigor (Americanised just for U!) and vitality are as limitless as his stories. Hit him up if you have any projects to discuss; it will be time well spent! CodeDev (Unreal Engine Experts)

We are still hiring! In addition to the roles we posted last week, we do now also need Canada-based Senior/Lead Technical Designers with Unreal expertise and also some more Senior Networking Engineers, with strong C++ and Unreal Engine. We have a very well-stocked pipeline of projects with some awesome clients and need some more superstars to add to the team! Please email us at careers@theunrealguys.com to register your interest with a resume :) Recruitment agencies- we love you, but we use GameLogic exclusively for our staffing needs...thanks!

🚨 🚨 We are hiring!!! 🚨 🚨 Here at The Unreal Guys, we are continuing our strong growth for the year, and have several urgent positions we are looking to fill! As well as the roles below, we are also always interested in speaking with great Unreal Engineers with expertise in Performance Optimisation and/or Networking. Please contact us at careers@theunrealguys.com to apply! #unreal #unrealengine #codedev #codev #hiring #theunrealguys

🚨 Meet the Team! 🚨 Tuesday's man of the week is the inimitable Myke Parrot 🦜 A real 'people person' and a gent of a man, Myke is a loving father of two girls and a frustrated Portsmouth FC supporter. Something he keeps to himself : CodeDev is Myke's brain-child.

Our awesome team have been thoroughly enjoying the latest and greatest, courtesy of the legends at Epic Games in their latest Unreal upgrade... WE LOVE MEGALIGHTS!!! Here are some of the headlines- Unreal Engine 5.5 introduces significant enhancements across various domains, including animation authoring, rendering, virtual production, and mobile game development. A standout feature in this release is MegaLights, an experimental lighting system that enables the use of numerous dynamic, shadow-casting lights with minimal performance impact. Key Features of Unreal Engine 5.5:    •       Animation Authoring Enhancements: The Sequencer tool now offers a more customizable interface, non-destructive animation layers, and the capability to author animatable deformers within Control Rig, which can be applied to characters in Sequencer with a single click.     •       Rendering Improvements: The Lumen global illumination system has been optimized to achieve 60 Hz performance on supported hardware. Additionally, the Path Tracer is now production-ready, providing high-quality rendering for final pixels in nonlinear applications and serving as a ground-truth reference.     •       Virtual Production Advancements: The in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) toolset has reached full production readiness, featuring support for SMPTE 2110, a production-ready Camera Calibration solver, and Virtual Scouting capabilities.     •       Mobile Game Development Enhancements: The Mobile Forward Renderer now supports features such as D-buffer decals, rectangular area lights, capsule shadows, movable IES textures, volumetric fog, and Niagara particle lights, all aimed at improving visual fidelity on mobile platforms. MegaLights in Unreal Engine 5.5: MegaLights is an experimental feature designed to allow developers to incorporate a vast number of dynamic, shadow-casting lights into their scenes without significant performance drawbacks. This system replaces traditional shadow maps and ray-traced shadows with a new direct lighting path, enabling the use of textured area lights with soft shadows, Light Functions, media texture playback, and volumetric shadows on both consoles and PC. A notable demonstration showcased a scene illuminated by over 1,000 shadow-casting lights running in real-time on a PlayStation 5, highlighting MegaLights’ capability to handle complex lighting scenarios efficiently. This tutorial is a good starting point...let us know how you get on! https://lnkd.in/ecNgxEUt