Products, Holidays, Job Opening, GGE Winners!

It's .plan time again. Hope everyone had a great new year!

First off, I'd like to announce the winners of the GGE Contest:







In addition, each user has their choice of a free copy of either TGE 1.5, Minigolf Mania, TGB, or Tim Aste CP #2 (your choice) to the 1st place winners of each contest.

Congrats to the winners of the GGE contest. We are shipping you a box of goodies. We changed the contest a bit due to unforeseen overlap in the winners(a few people winning all categories multiple times) so we ended up just awarding a blanket grand prize to everyone who had an awesome profile, or submitted the most quality games in a category. Therefore many of the following won for their profile, the games submitted and general awesomeness.

Thanks and congrats!

Secondly, we should keep seeing a ton of new games, content packs, and other tools into 2007, with several product launches lined up for the Winter. Keep and eye out for Constructor and TGEA, the gnomes tell me they may be almost upon us.

Next up, I'd like to announce some job openings here at GarageGames. This job description maybe updated, so please check for the latest information on our Jobs Page.

PHP Web Developer

Based in Eugene, OR GarageGames is a 7 year old established bootstrap video game developer in the process of building a video game oriented community site (www.greatgamesexperiment.com), and are looking to expand the team of maintaining our company website (www.garagegames.com).

GarageGames is composed of extremely talented and creative people who make video games, video game related products, and video game middle-ware with no outside pressure, corporate shallowness, or grind-house motivation techniques. We make the games we want to play, develop the technology we would want to use and we work on our own terms. We are very close-knit and unique culture of hard working, creative and highly motivated people.

Unlike other companies, at GarageGames you are part of a team, a partner in development. At GarageGames, in addition to a base-salary and benefits we give all developers a royalty-like bonus and an internal royalty on projects they work on. Our mission is to provide independent developers with tools, knowledge, co-conspirators; everything needed to make great games.

We give game makers the opportunity to publish their games, find their audiences, and perhaps make their fortunes.

Job Description

LAMP Web Developer - PHP, Object Oriented, MySQL, Apache, Linux

Are you passionate about gaming and the communities that grow around it? If you are an expert at developing high-performance interactive web applications using Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, we want to talk to you!

We are now actively looking to hire some really motivated LAMP Web Developers that are passionate about developing community driven websites. We are looking for candidates that want to work for a medium sized video game and technology oriented company. Multiple positions available.

Skills Required

LAMP Web Developer, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX, XHTML, Javascript who is aware of scalability and optimization of web applications.

Must Have Skills:

1.) 3+ years of hand on professional experience developing PHP web applications. Candidates must have PHP4 (we work with 4) and MySQL 5 experience.

2.) Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems a plus.

3.) Applicants with vast, professional portfolio will be given top consideration. Show us your past projects.

4.) JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS skills are a must

Nice to have skills:

1.) Apache

2.) System Administration on Linux

3.) XML, RSS, AJAX.

This is an exciting, creative and uniquely intense environment! For your hard work, you will be rewarded with an offer that will include a solid base salary, a comprehensive benefits package, paid time off, a great and fun working environment, and other cool perks! Interviews are starting this week and will be continuing until a proper candidate is found.

Please send a resume and portfolio with cover letter to:

Timothy Aste
GarageGames, Inc.
245 West 5th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
FAX: 541-484-7476
tima@garagegames.com

Lastly, GG is back in action after the holidays, but we had some good times at our Christmas party. In case you don't check the employee page that often, we've had some new faces join the Garage in the past six months. Anyhow, GG welcomes Michael Blenden, Thomas Buscaglia, Joshua Dallman, Jacob Fike, Channa Langley, Trevor Lanz, Dylan Romero, and James Wiley to the team. These guys are kicking butt. Here's some quick photos from the Christmas party (no this isn't IGC, but might of been just as big).



Joe's daughter Anya.


She knows how to break it down.


Josh manages to look angry in every photo somehow (this is probably costing him money).


Brian Ramage was one of the DJs that entertained.


Quite a big crowd gathered! Eric Hartman in the foreground.


People are starting to show up and lose the programmer daze.


Not quite sure what is happening on the right, but I know it involves a Nintendo Wii.


Davey Jackson Allison Tunnell battle it out in Guitar Hero II.


Part of the musical setup for entertaining.


Pat Wilson also provided entertainment for the masses as a DJ.


Everytime I came back this seemed tobe refilled!


Dylan Romero practices his Zombie for motion capture.


The food was rotating and full of awesome.


Eric Fritz, Michael Blenden and Jonathon Tunnell enjoy the Wii.


Michael, Channa and Jonathon did a great job on the building entrance.


Gifts!!


Good times and Good company.


Heidi Tunnell catering, awesome food.


Jeff & Allison Tunnell


Nate Feyma enjoying sandwich, grooving, and Wii dangeously all at once.


Pat Wilson


Paul Scott and his arch nemesis in an epic battle.


Top Down View


Top Down View


Jeff & Josh being secretive.


Cool shirts!


Skylight room decorations, I don't see these going away.


Amazingly, 3 people fit where 1 Tim Aste does. They are chatting about how I have too much stuff probably.


These were quite loud.


Jeff giving someone the business.


Pre-destruction