Games Blockchain Unity Developer (Intern/Dub)

Job title: Games Blockchain Unity Developer
Term: Paid 3 month internship

Location: The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, Ireland

 

Bitcoin Marketing Team is a successful and Irish owned cryptocurrency marketing agency. We will be putting together a series of events over the coming year, and we have a once in a lifetime opportunity for a video game development student with an interest in blockchain to join the team on a paid 3 month internship in our Dublin 8 offices.

The quest, if you choose to accept it, is to help us build out some underlying functions between Unity and a number of blockchain API’s, and using them as some of the trigger points in unity. This will require a knowledge of Unity, and API’s, and connecting the two via Javascript and JSON, API’s etc.

Once complete, the role will then include building out some rudimentary game prototypes as a proof of concept, which can then be used as a basis for a series of Games Blockchain Hackajam’s to be hosted in Dublin in June or July.

You can register your interest by emailing blockchaingameshackajam@bitcoinmarketingteam.com and there will be approximately €1,000 worth of bitcoin in prizes split three ways.

An example of our starting point can be seen here – https://dailyblockchain.github.io (open the page, zoom out with ctrl+ your mousewheel, change to another tab for about 2 minutes, and then come back to the screen).

So if you’ve an interest in blockchain, can work your way through API documentation and code it to work, and then feed the information into Unity, and build some basic gameplay with leaderboards around them, get in touch today with a CV and cover letter/audio message/video message at collegeplacements@bitcoinmarketingteam.com

GameDevelopers.ie Community Announcement

This is a message for all users of the site.

As you may have seen for the last number of months we have had a site notification on the homepage, while we reviewed a number of issues. This email is to share information about a security compromise, and explain what we have done to address it.

Firstly, we detected in September of last year that the site had been caught spamming by our webhost (heanet). Using an obsolete theme, a bad actor had gotten access to the fileserver and was able to spin up around 40 different files in different locations, and a rather aggressive anti-deletion. Having spent a number of weeks investigating the problem, we can announce that it looks like no personal information was compromised, and this affected the site, not our users. The malware that was installed was hijacking via a out of date plugin a lot of backlinks for pharmacies.

As a result of this, we have implemented a number of changes.

Firstly, all users that were a legacy of our time as a forum have been deleted to be on the safe side. The only users left are active admins of the site. Also, we have had to remove the option to submit news via a registered account, instead you’ll need to email us.

We have done a full folder by folder check of the site to clean it up, multiple malware scans, and the cleaned version of the site was ported to brand new hosting, which had a full set of password setups, plus additional security measures to further lock down the server.

We have installed SSL on the site to secure everything going forward, although there was little by way of information that would be a concern on the site to begin with.

The new site has been launched, last week, and we are currently getting it reindexed with search engines which should resolve the issue that Google search results says the site has been hacked.

We would like to thank those of you in our community who flagged the issues, Aphra and Jamie for working through the security upgrades, and Jason in Maynooth University as well as the team in HEANet for assisting us through this time.

Just to reiterate, there didn’t seem to be a compromise to the user database from our investigation into the logs, and while it was a pain to fix, we’re fairly confident to say that no personally identifiable information was compromised.

The GameDevelopers.ie admin team

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