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Dark Forest is hiring. We are looking for an experienced full-stack engineer. If interested, email [email protected] with your resume and your Github, personal website, and/or LinkedIn page, along with a short description of why you are interested in the role.
This is a full-time contracted role.
Compensation: $9-12k/mo
Location: ****Remote-friendly, but US timezones are preferred
Start Date: As soon as possible
Ethereum development experience is a plus but not required. Notably, this may also be an ideal role if you are an experienced software engineer interested in breaking into crypto and onboarding onto the bleeding edge of Ethereum application development.
Dark Forest is a massively-multiplayer online strategy game inspired by Liu Cixin's Three-Body trilogy. It is the world's first fully-decentralized RTS game. Players explore an infinite, procedurally-generated universe: expanding their empires, engaging in diplomacy and war with other players, and trading planets, artifacts, map data, and even CPU hashpower. Development of the game has been 100% funded by donations and grants from the crypto community.
Dark Forest is a unique project; it started two years ago as an experiment in using zero-knowledge cryptography to build a “infinitely hackable” and fully-decentralized MMO strategy game. As such, Dark Forest is open-source, client-agnostic, and extremely extensible. Many players play with the aid of complex automations and bots; a substantial part of the game experience lives in composable third-party tools (plugins, community-maintained clients, and even smart contracts) built and maintained by an enthusiastic third-party developer community of various individuals and teams.
The game is currently in whitelisted beta. For the last several months, we've run massive battle-royale-style FFA competitions for thousands of players at a time, chosen out of a waitlist of several tens of thousands crypto enthusiasts and developers. For those who are familiar with blockchain terminology—during these rounds, Dark Forest singlehandedly consumes more gas than the entire Ethereum mainnet.
The game is built by a small team of two core developers, who work closely with third-party developers and community members. Our goal is to build decentralized, persistent, and crypto-economic digital worlds.
Dark Forest's core logic is written for the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). In the past, we ran the game on Ethereum's Ropsten test network; currently, beta rounds are run on the EVM-compatible xDAI blockchain. Our tech stack includes: