Looking for a strong UE5 developer / gameplay systems developer for the indie project Paleolith on a part-time and revenue share basis.

Paleolith is a realistic single-player survival game set in the Stone Age. We are creating survival without the usual genre abstractions: no conventional inventory or crafting menu, with physical interactions, manual crafting, weather, humidity, smells, hunting, and interconnected survival systems.

The game has been in development since 2024. There is a large existing UE5 project, a working build, and an already implemented set of related gameplay systems. The game already has initial confirmed audience interest — Steam wishlists, playtest applications, organic interest from the survival community, and publications in gaming media. We are currently working on a public demo.

We are looking for a strong developer who can:

• quickly understand a large existing UE5 project and interconnected systems;
• find the root causes of regressions and systemic issues, not just fix symptoms;
• carefully improve existing architecture without striving to rewrite everything from scratch;
• independently bring tasks to a working and testable state;
• take large gameplay systems under their technical responsibility;
• consider the impact of technical solutions on future development speed.

Experience with the following is particularly relevant:

• UE5 Blueprints;
• gameplay and player interaction systems;
• physical interactions and physics in gameplay;
• character logic and states.

Experience with save/load, AI, profiling, and optimization is useful. Experience with technical and procedural character animation in UE5: AnimBP, IK, Control Rig, ALS, or similar systems will be an additional plus.

The project already has a senior generalist/tech lead, a UE developer, QA, game design, sound, and PR. We are looking for an independent, strong developer who can take on major gameplay areas and develop them together with the team.

What might be interesting:

• a technically unusual survival game with many non-standard mechanics;
• a lot of physical interaction and related systems;
• the opportunity to significantly influence the project's technical decisions;
• an existing project and working build, not just an idea on paper.

Format:

• remote;
• part-time;
• no fixed payment currently, format is revenue share;
• revenue share income depends on the commercial success of the game and is not guaranteed;
• workload, terms, and share percentage are negotiable;
• agreements are fixed in writing.

Project: Steam — Paleolith

To apply: recruiter contact In your application, briefly state:

• experience with Unreal Engine;
• what gameplay systems you have worked on;
• whether you have had to delve into large existing UE projects;
• what work you can show;
• what part-time workload is of interest.