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Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.

Location: Remote

Mountaintop is a new game studio creating multiplayer games for teams that crave a challenge. We’re an independent, remote-first studio primarily located in the US.

We’re creating the types of games that bring people together — and keep them together for “just one more round.” The types of games that inspired us as kids. The games that become our hobbies, and sometimes our obsessions.

Games are a reflection of the teams that make them. So to make the best games, we’re building a studio that puts the team first — one that’s collaborative, anti-crunch, diverse, and inclusive.

We’d love for you to join us.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Graphics Engineer who’s passionate about building extraordinary new experiences that inspire others. You’ll play a crucial role in bringing our first title to life.

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Developing, refining, and owning visual features and optimizations that deliver amazing player experiences
• Collaborating with design and art to achieve a shared vision within performance constraints
• Implementing custom shaders for in-game special effects
• Contributing to concept, direction, and gameplay for all Mountaintop projects
• Establishing engineering best practices that ensure high-quality results
• Creating a team culture that prides itself on excellence, innovation, trust, and respect

ABOUT YOU

• A love for playing and making amazing games
• A passion for graphics programming
• Fluent in C / C++ and HLSL
• A minimum of 4 years programming experience, including at least one shipped PC or console title
• Experience with cross-platform development
• Experience with GPU and CPU profiling tools
• Self-motivated and eager to contribute to many different areas of development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

PLUSES

• Experience working with Unreal Engine 4
• Computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related degree

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Remote-work friendly
• Commuter Pass

Interested? Apply now.

Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.

Gamasutra’s Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.

Looking for a new job? Get started here. Are you a recruiter looking for talent? Post jobs here.

The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!

Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.

Location: Austin, Texas

We’re currently working on an unannounced PC/console title featuring a new and original IP, and need a gameplay programmer to help bring it to life.

If you’ve got the experience and enjoy working with a focused group of talented and passionate game devs, then we’re the place for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gather requirements based on stakeholder input
• Provide reasonable time estimates, and communicate when adjustments are needed
• Collaborate iteratively with designers, artists and other team members to deliver polished gameplay
• Create internal tools as needed to improve and support workflow
• Deliver clean, efficient and well-documented code
• Fearlessly and relentlessly debug difficult problems

REQUIREMENTS:

• Solid knowledge and experience using C++
• Motivated self-starter; complete tasks without intense supervision
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Proof of eligibility to work in the United States

PLUSES:

• Experience working with Unreal 4
• Experience working on a live-service game
• Experience on at least one commercial game title
• Multiplayer programming experience in Unreal 4
• Latest generation console development experience
• Recent time travel

SKILLS:

• Travel
• Written Communication
• Estimates
• Game Development
• Console
• C++
• Gameplay
• Time Travel
• Programming
• No Unreal Engine 4

SOME OF THE BENEFITS WE OFFER:

• Full health benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Profit sharing
• Generous PTO
• Relocation packages

PLUS…

• Office movie lunches
• Snacks on snacks on snacks
• Ping Pong with a leaderboard
• One sick mame cabinet

Please note, due to a high volume of applicants we cannot reply to each individually. Only those in consideration for a position will receive a reply. Thank you!

Interested? Apply now.

Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.

Gamasutra’s Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.

Looking for a new job? Get started here. Are you a recruiter looking for talent? Post jobs here.

In just a couple of days’ time, we’ll all be jumping and hammering our way into Paper Mario: The Origami King on Switch. If you’ve already visited our homepage today, you’ll have spotted that reviews for the game have now gone live. So, what do the critics think?

Below, we’ve rounded up a selection of quotes and review scores from a number of different outlets. The response is mostly positive, although there are a fair few complaints that are pretty consistent across the board. Before we dive in, we’d naturally like to urge you to check out our very own review:

OK, now you’ve read that, let’s see just how well (or not) the game has gone down with other critics around the world:

GamesRadar noted a ‘wildly varying’ difficultly level among other little issues, but otherwise came away impressed, awarding the game 4.5 out of 5:

Gripes aside though, the latest Paper Mario title is a joy to exist in. An excellent story, charming characters, and the ability to team up with your oldest foes makes The Origami King a triumph. Yes, it may not be the new Thousand-Year Door RPG, but it’s something special that should be celebrated.

Godisageek awarded the game a 9/10, saying:

This is by far the best Paper Mario game in a great long while, and if you can accept it’s not quite an RPG by most people’s definitions, and instead appreciate a sprawling, beautiful action adventure with turn-based combat, a great script, and a sublime soundtrack, you’ll have a wonderful time.

Gamespot says that the battle system ‘revitalises the series’, while also noting that the game’s characters aren’t as charming as past games. It awarded the game an 8/10:

With a newfound combat system that steals the show and offers a novel take on turn-based combat, its winking, nodding, and adventuring shine all the brighter. Its world and characters might not be the series’ best, but it’s still able to consistently throw left turns, good gags, and smart surprises at you.

Game Informer gave the game a quirky 7.75/10:

As a series, Paper Mario constantly explores new concepts and mechanics, which is exciting, but that comes with plenty of risks. Origami King’s biggest chances don’t pay off in a satisfying way. I enjoyed Mario’s hijinks and all the misfits he encounters, but the new ring-based action needs refinement.

Eurogamer called it ‘a heartfelt creation that doesn’t quite stand up’:

There’s plenty I’d recommend about The Origami King, a journey generous with its humour, its spread of locations, its continual sense of adventure in Mario’s bid to defeat the evil Origami King… But each time the game changed settings, every time it swapped in a new party member, whenever I cleared another boss, I expected it to grow the shoots it had begun to set out and dig in a little deeper. For all of the game’s sense of personality and place, it never grows into anything weightier.

VGC wasn’t fully impressed either, awarding the game a 3/5:

The Origami King contains some of the series’ absolute standout moments – almost all of them related to its enjoyable script and wonderful, varied environments – but it also frustrates with some disappointing new features and all-too-familiar missteps.

Finally, IGN gave the game a 7/10, describing it as ‘truly likeable’ despite feeling that the combat is ‘largely unfulfilling’:

The Origami King is a truly likeable game despite the shallowness of its new spin on gameplay. Its characters are winsome, its visual design is gorgeous, its world is fun to explore, and its storytelling is outside the box and playful. At the same time, however, it could be so much more. Combat is largely unfulfilling, and your journey as a whole lacks meaningful choices. For a series with RPG roots, that’s a real shame.

Paper Mario: The Origami King launches on 17th July and is available to buy either digitally from the Switch eShop, or physically at retail. Are you looking forward to playing the game this Friday? Let us know in the comments.

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Summary: To use an elif branch in the ternary operator, use another ternary operator as the result of the else branch (nested ternary operator). The nested ternary operator x if c0 else y if c1 else z returns x if condition c0 is met, else if (elif) condition c1 is met, it returns y, else it returns z.

Problem: You may have seen the ternary operator x if c else y. Is there a similar ternary operator with an additional elif statement? In pseudocode, you want something like:

# Pseudocode

x if c elif y0 else y1

In other words: What’s the best way of extending the ternary operator to what you may call a “quaternary” operator?

Background: The most basic ternary operator x if c else y consists of three operands x, c, and y. It is an expression with a return value. The ternary operator returns x if the Boolean expression c evaluates to True. Otherwise, if the expression c evaluates to False, the ternary operator returns the alternative y.

Learn more about the ternary operator in our detailed blog article!

Example: Say, you want to write the following if-then-else condition in a single line of code:

>>> x = 42

>>> if x > 42:

>>> print("no")

>>> elif x == 42:

>>> print("yes")

>>> else:

>>> print("maybe")

yes

The elif branch wins: you print the output "yes" to the shell.

But how to do it in a single line of code? Just use the ternary operator with an elif statement won’t work (it’ll throw a syntax error):

Method: Nested Ternary Operator

The answer is simple: nest two ternary operators like so:

>>> print("no") if x > 42 else print("yes") if x == 42 else print("maybe")

yes

If the value x is larger than 42, we print “no” to the shell. Otherwise, we execute the remainder of the code (which is a ternary operator by itself). If the value x is equal to 42, we print “yes”, otherwise “maybe”.

So by nesting multiple ternary operators, we can greatly increase our Python one-liner power!

Try it yourself:

Exercise: Which method is more concise? Count the number of characters (or write a small script that does it for you ;))!

Python Ternary Multiple Elif

In the previous example, you’ve seen how a nested ternary operator semantically adds an elif branch. In theory, you can add an arbitrary number of elif branches by nesting more and more ternary operators:

# Method 1: If ... Elif ... Else

x = 42

if x > 42: y = 1

elif x == 42: y = 2

elif x == 12: y = 3

else: y = 4

print(y)

# 2 # Method 2: Nested Ternary Operator

y = 1 if x > 42 else 2 if x == 42 else 3 if x == 12 else 4

print(y)

# 2

However, readability suffers badly and you shouldn’t do anything of the sort. A simple mult-line if ... elif ... elif ... else statement is better!

Discussion

However, even if the nested ternary operator is more concise than an if-elif-else statement, it’s not recommended because of readability of your code. Most programmers don’t have any trouble understanding a simple if-elif-else statement. But a nested ternary operator is an advanced-level piece of Python code and especially beginners will struggle understanding it.

So, it’s great that you’ve expanded your One-Liner Superpower. But you should use it wisely!

Related Video: If-Then-Else in One Line of Python Code

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