N-iX Games

I am the CEO of a game development firm.

Game development

Referral

6-10 Employees

We are working on a complex PC competitive real-time live-service video game in Unity engine. N-iX team is a core part of our team, with several N-iX engineers and artists deeply embedded in our team. They are directly embedded in our workflow, involved in planning sprints and executing. They have been part of the team for 3 years. The main area of work is PC (and occasionally mobile) gameplay engineering in Unity, where they are tasked with the most complex, senior workloads we have. Secondarily they are part of our art team, participating in the whole game art workflow from concept art to 3D modeling

The game is still in development so we don't yet have truly measurable business outcomes yet. However, we are able to judge the speed and quality of their work which is truly outstanding.

N-iX team always delivers on time. They do not behave like contractors. They care deeply about our success and view themselves like a part of our team. On several occasions we unfortunately needed to work very late nights or weekends, or had to meet very tight deadlines. N-iX members were like part of the team and did not mind, and they were willing to push as hard as us. This is extremely rare to see, and though we don't believe this is healthy practice, we are very pleased that they have such high ownership of their work

High dedication, true partner mentality, flexibility, responsiveness. They have very talented people with very strong work ethic. They are very sincere to develop the best work. They make sure they understand the company's goals and vision when selecting people and managing the work. There is no artificial separation between their team and our team, it is like one combined team

N/A. Really amazing partners that we hope to continue working with for a long time

https://www.rapyuta-robotics.com I'm the lead developer for the Robot importer project in Unreal Engine

N-ix helps us accomplish our goals of building multiple types of robots in UE Skeletal Mesh components at runtime

N-ix has experience in various prior projects of simulation in UE https://www.n-ix.com/game-vr-studio/projects/category/unreal

They help us fix existing blocking bugs in the project, building BP robots for experimentation.

There are 2 UE developers.

They offer tremendous help, being extremely tenacious at fixing super-tricky bugs related to the integration of ROS into UE, also the constitution of robots based on skeletal mesh, both of which were thought to be very much infeasible. They are the first ones, as far as I know on the Internet, that could make a working Blueprint forklift in UE5, utilizing ChaosWheeledVehicleComponent.

They host a private common slack channel with us for important notifications/progress updates, together with weekly Google Meet remote meetings. We work in different time zones with us thus most of the communication is done asynchronously.

They succeeded in accomplishing our project's goals with awesome expertise and perseverance.

We generally don't really have big issues in communication, but their developers should truly deserve more of N-ix investment in their English skills (like with American/British colleagues coaching) to match their extremely competent technical expertise.

I’m the creative director of a game development studio that makes strategy and RPG titles. My responsibilities include the art, direction, animation, and stories for the company.

We’re creating our first 3D game and brought N-iX on to help develop our concept art. We don’t have any internal staff with 3D animation capabilities, so we went to Ni-OX to both develop our overall visual style for the game and translate our concept into a 3D world that our engineering team could put into action.

We went through a fairly in-depth estimation process and worked with their project managers and team leaders to process all our deliverables. N-iX was communicative and made sure both sides knew exactly what we were talking about and what we were getting. This reduced the ambiguities in the estimate and made our count very accurate.

Coming off of working on 2D games, this 3D game was a big jump for us. Our previous vendor was very skilled at 2D graphics, and we were happy with them, so we returned to the drawing board and did a full search for a new partner

We spent between $200,000–$1 million.

We worked together from August 2019–May 2021. They’ve also started a new project for the same game to fill in some of the gaps we found in our 3D artwork. That project is currently ongoing.

The visuals of the game are so impactful for their ability to be seen and recognized. Most recently, we submitted a video of our gameplay to a conference, and we were selected for a showcase at that conference — one of 12 games chosen for that distinction out of hundreds submitted. This got us a featured spot on the floor at the conference, which helped a lot of people come by, not to mention people who were watching from a distance.

They joined our Disocrd server and have lived there for a couple of years, joining us daily to chat, drop, and upload files. We also use Trello for project tracking. We’re a small team,

We were very happy that we were able to give them our entire project. Their team was very excited about it as well. N-iX was able to help us define our vision and style for the world. At a concept level, they worked on the look and the lighting of the game. It’s a cyberpunk world, which means it’s futuristic.

There are things I could mention here, but we are very happy with a lot of things, so I don’t want anything to be taken as a knock against them.

Look closely at their portfolio and what they’re especially good at. Also, spend extra time up front to discuss your requirements to figure out exactly how they can achieve your goals. This goes for any art studio you’re working with.

We are an autonomous checkout company that builds software to infer which products shoppers take inside a store in order to charge them without interacting with a cashier. I mange a machine learning team responsible for building models to predict which items are being taken based on image/video data.

We wanted to build a simulation tool for the purposes of rendering videos of simulated shoppers moving around the store and shopping naturally, in order to have data to train and evaluate our models. We wanted to be able to simulate a wide variety of random situations over a wide variety of scenarios.

We engaged with a few game development studios and n-ix came back to us with a very organized plan, asked great clarifying questions until it was clear they understood the intent of the project, provided us with a breakdown and time estimate, and the services were reasonably priced.

They implemented a project using the Unity game engine. They implemented a system to generate random trajectories for artificial agents, have them move around the virtual store, and take/place items according to a randomly generated script.

We worked with 2 developers and 1 project manager during the project.

The team has been making steady progress towards deliverables and has generally been very accurate with their time estimates when it comes to intermediate milestones. I've been happy with the results so far and am confident the team can keep delivering features as the project continues.

The team is very organized, tracking progress towards goals in Jira. Developers come ready with specific questions which are usually addressed in a batch, which is great from a time management perspective. Usually we only need one or 2 followup conversations because they generally understand the task clearly up front.

I've been impressed with the team's ability to infer additional features based on the high-level goals of the project. Sometimes they will demonstrate features I didn't explicitly ask for which are extremely useful for our goals of randomness and realism in the simulator.

When I took over this project from a coworker of mine I wasn't clear on exactly when we started this project, since our company has multiple projects with n-ix currently.

I'm the COO of a VR enterprise platform company that manages and distributes VR training content for large enterprise customers.

We hired N-iX Game & VR Studio to expand our content development capabilities so that we could scale the content our enterprise customers need for VR training without hiring incremental staff directly. Our goal was to imbed the N-iX team into our development process and pipeline for seamless growth and risk management.

We selected N-iX after reviewing previous project work, meeting with them directly and interviewing their developers and artists to ensure the skillsets and quality were up to our standards.

We started our engagement by imbedding their artists into our existing art pipeline and imbedding a developer into our internal team as a transitional solution. We added in additional roles - more devs, project management, design and QA - incrementally until the N-iX team could manage an entire project from kickoff to launch with very little support from our team. We worked up to over 8-10 projects concurrently in production with them at one time, across Unreal engine and Unity.

We currently have 14 dedicated resources (Unreal Developers, Unity Developers, Project Manager, Game Designer and QAs) and various artists as needed.

Our customers are happy with the training modules N-iX has delivered and we continue to close additional work based on the quality of our VR training content.

We meet weekly with the N-iX team to stay on top of project deliverables and any blockers. We also utilize slack for daily communication and email as needed. N-iX is very responsive to any issues we raise and answer us, even when it's off hours for them.

Their commitment to delivery quality work and make sure that we, and our end customers, are satisfied with the VR training modules. Regardless of any difficult situation, N-iX Game & VR Studio delivers when needed.

It took some time to build up the integration between the 2 companies and some coaching on our expectations around proactive communication as it would with any new team members internally or outsourced.