One of 17 openings currently available at the studio is for a senior writer who will be charged with helping “bring the world of BioShock to life once again”.
The job advert (spotted by PCGamesN) adds: “We’re hoping to find someone who can weave impactful, character-driven stories in an open world setting.”
While the first two games in the series took place in the underwater city of Rapture and the third in the floating city of Columbia, a job advert spotted in August 2020 suggested BioShock 4 will take place in “a new and fantastical world”.
Another current opening, for a senior technical audio designer, describes the game as a “AAA narratively-driven FPS project full of character and personality”.
Cloud Chamber is also seeking an AI Programmer “to flesh out the designs and finalize the implementations for an urban crowd system and the systemic tribal ecology of a sometimes hostile AI”.
And it’s on the lookout for a senior world designer to “combine hand-crafted set-pieces with emerging AI behavior to create a ‘living’ world that offers players variety at every step of the game”.
Publisher 2K announced in December 2019 that work had begun on a new entry in the BioShock franchise and that it would be in development “for the next several years”.
Scott Sinclair, the art director of the original BioShock and BioShock Infinite, is working on the new game.
According to Cloud Chamber’s global studio head, Kelley Gilmore, the game’s development team also includes veterans of other franchises including Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Battlefield.
“As part of our recruiting efforts, we’re looking for people from many different backgrounds and experiences,” she said in 2019. “I’m confident that the depth and variety of game development experience at Cloud Chamber will lead to another unforgettable BioShock experience.”
BioShock’s original director, Ken Levine, will not be involved in the new project.
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