Want to join the Skywind team?
If you are interested in working on Skywind, you’ve come to the right place! We are always looking for dedicated members to help bring the world of Skywind to life.
Check out the various departments that comprise the Skywind team below, and click through to find out more about the job roles available.
After you’ve applied, be sure to pop into our Discord and drop us a message on #recruitment_questions to tell us why you want to join and a little bit about yourself, your skills, or whatever you feel would be appropriate. We’ll already have your application for reference.
Additionally, if you want to improve your skills before applying, consider joining The Arcane University, the primary location for learning or enhancing existing skills for the wider modding community. There, the developers of Skyrim’s major modding projects (Skywind, Beyond Skyrim, Skyblivion, and more) will help teach you the needed skills to contribute to the modding community.
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Voice Acting • 3D Art • Animation • Concept Art • Scripting • Level Design • Sound & FX • Quality Assurance • Writing • Music • Translation • Filecutting • Misc • Learn
Voice Acting
In order to make the world be heard, Skywind has hundreds of NPCs who need to be voiced. The team focuses on the accomplishment of this goal with the help of studio professionals and talented amateurs alike. Auditions to be a voice actor are done through Skywind’s Casting Call Club audition page, not the ordinary submission form.
To join the VA reviewer (“filecutting”) team, enquire on our Discord “recruitment questions” channel.
For mixing, mastering, and otherwise editing voice over audio, see the SFX department.
3D Art
The Skywind 3D art team focuses on the asset creation of the game’s scope and story. We bring the concept art to life, creating highly detailed models from concepts and then preparing them to be implemented in-game.
We are currently looking for 3D artists to make new assets, especially those with experience in clothing creation and texture/material designing.
Animation
The Animation Department’s primary focus is re-implementing Morrowind’s diverse cast of creatures. Occasionally they will take on other tasks as well, such as animations for NPCs and props.
Concept Art
The Skywind Concept Art team focuses on the look and mood of the game’s scope and story. We craft the ideas needed for the game ranging from large land areas down to the smallest detail of story assets. What we create in 2D then goes on to be modeled by our 3D art team.
The 2D team is not currently looking for additional artists. Thank you for your interest!
Coding/Scripting/Mechanics
The Coding department is a catch-all department for work in both inside and outside the Creation Kit. Most of the work we do is not traditional coding tasks, but rather work with the various Creation Engine systems and involves tasks such as implementing quests, developing an all-new perk system, NPC AI scheduling, and unique effects for artifacts. The department also includes some work outside of the Creation Kit, like UI design for custom menus and HUD elements and developing tools for handling custom behaviors and animations.
The biggest need for the Coding department at the moment is for quest implementation. Such applications should show that you can set up a quest from start to finish and that you are familiar with writing custom Papyrus scripts. Some good things to include would be (for example), complex branching dialogue/unlocking topics, scenes between NPCs, setting up NPC packages for before/during/after the quest, using the story manager to start quests, or random encounters/world interactions. The Coding department is not currently recruiting for Mechanics, UI, or SKSE work, although exceptionally strong applicants may be considered.
Level Design and Landscaping
The Level Design department is recreating the gameworld of Vvardenfell, both the overworld and the dark, dangerous depths beneath Morrowind’s volcanic soil. We are looking to detail the world by taking advantage of Skyrim’s updated engine capabilities that allow for higher object count and detailed assets. The primary objective is to revise the core design of locations, often changing the outdated layout and flow to encourage exploration.
Navmesh and Optimization
Navmeshing involves crafting navigation paths, or navmeshes, which guide game characters through the world. This system helps characters calculate efficient routes while avoiding obstacles, preventing them from getting stuck. In essence, it defines where non-player characters (including creatures) can move.
Optimization sets “room boundaries” or occlusion planes, instructing the computer on rendering in-game content. This prevents the need to render entire environments, enhancing performance by rendering only necessary portions at a time.
Sound & FX
The sound team’s chief goal is to bring the world of Morrowind to life with modern sound design techniques, including the creation, editing, and implementation of sound cues – all with at least a basic understanding of the challenges feedback loops and interactive immersion presents.
Quality Assurance
The Skywind Quality Assurance (QA) team tests all aspects of the game, from quests and NPCs to spells and game mechanics. As other departments finish pieces of work, we verify everything works as intended and functions well in-game. QA members hunt down bugs, test game systems such as combat and leveling, and offer feedback to developers, with the goal of producing the highest-quality game we can.
Note: QA receives a deluge of applicants after developer videos, many of them very skilled and experienced. As such, please be patient after submitting any QA application.
Music
Music has always been a very important factor in the Elder Scrolls series, and is separated into two sections: exploration and combat. We strongly encourage that you give Morrowind’s original soundtrack a listen to understand our starting point with the music. We want to give Skywind very tribal and eastern undertones to represent the alien life on Vvardenfell as well as the ashlander roots of the Dunmer.
Writing
The writing team has been addressing inconsistencies between the original Morrowind and Skywind, adding new flavor dialogue to NPCs to enrich the environment, and adding in a few new quests to enhance the roleplay experience.
Skywind’s writing department is in its final stages, with all writing projects defined, but we’re still onboarding talented and enthusiastic writers to help polish and complete these projects, so please submit an application!
Miscellaneous Jobs
Skywind’s team members don’t always fit the mold, and plenty of our core contributors float between teams. Sometimes we identify areas that don’t fit neatly into one of the above teams, but where the right person could be a huge asset.
This includes filecutting (review of voice acting lines), translation (localizing the text in-game to your language), or even learning a skill (via the Arcane University). Click below for more information on available roles.
