According to the latest job listing, Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2, seems to be struggling to develop its own mobile game engine.
The Game Post found that Bungie's job listing is looking for a new "Senior Mobile Platform Engineer." The company appears to be looking for candidates that can help "scale the technology that Bungie games rely on" to appeal to players on iOS and Android mobile platforms.
The preferred candidate for the position will be responsible for "excitedly developing Bungie's in-house game engine to support mobile platforms" and "solving interesting problems supporting mobile platforms, including player control, UI, performance optimization, and downsizing." " and so on.
Experience as a mobile game or iOS/Android application engineer is preferred. It does sound like a hiring for the perfect guy to join and officially start developing a mobile game engine, but Bungie didn't respond to the issue.
This isn't the first time Bungie has hired for a mobile-game-centric position. Previously, Bungie sought an artistic director, executive producer and senior test manager. All positions require previous experience in the mobile gaming space, which further hints that it is developing games on the mobile platform.
However, there are currently no rumors that Destiny 2 will land on mobile devices. In fact, Bungie is working on a new third-person action game. It looks like this apparent mobile recruitment could involve this new game.
Speaking of which, the new game is also hinted at in the job listings for recruitment, known as the "brand new" game, which will include elements like PvP from Destiny 2. Candidates are required to have "experience in character-focused third-person action games (platformers, isometric games, etc.)."
While these are just speculations taken from the positions That Bungie has been hiring for, we've also seen some interesting leaps forward for Bungie in its genre of games.