Staff occupations

Staff Occupations are different positions/jobs for different member of the Nitrome staff.

Game artists
Game artists provide the artwork needed to make Nitrome games.

History
Mat Annal was the first game artist. Since then, Nitrome has had several other game artists.

List of Game Artists

 * Simon Hunter


 * Mat Annal


 * Jon Annal


 * Markus Heinel


 * Jay Smith


 * Martin Wörister


 * Stefan Ahlin

Job description
"As a pixel games artist you will work closely with the games programmers and web developers to provide pixel based artwork for the games and assets the site and anything Nitrome related.

''You will share duties within the games you develop such as level building and testing. Your duties will include'' work on both existing Nitrome i.p.'s as well as new game ideas that you will get oppertunity to contribute to."

Flash programmers
Flash programmers are staff members whose jobs are to program flash Nitrome games.

History Nitrome's first programmers was one of its founders, Heather Stancliffe. Since 2004, Nitrome has had several different programmers for flash games. It is the most frequently changed position on the Nitrome staff.

List of programmers

 * Heather Stancliffe


 * Chris Burt-Brown


 * Aaron Steed


 * Carl Trelfa


 * Andrew Gardner


 * Stuart Small


 * Ignat Zuk


 * John Kennedy


 * Luis Romero


 * Stuart Allen


 * Romain Macré

Job description
"As a flash programmer you will be required to program games in the flash environment collaborating with the primarily the artists but also sometimes the iphone programmers and web developers.

''You will be expected to share duties within the games you develop such as level building, testing and producing licensing builds of games. Your programming duties will include work on both existing Nitrome i.p.'s as well as new game ideas that you will get the opportunity to contribute to."''

Musicians
Musicians are members of the Nitrome staff that compose and usually record the music for Nitrome games.

History
Nitrome has had two previous musicians: Lee Nicklen and Dave Cowen. Lee Nicklen did the music from Hot Air to Worm Food, and Dave Cowen has done the music for Ribbit onward. Dave Cowen is the current Nitrome musician. Nitrome chooses their musicians for long periods of time. Lee Nicklen did all Nitrome music for 4 years, and Dave Cowen has been doing it for 4 years also.

List of musicians

 * Lee Nicklen
 * Dave Cowen