Defective Studios is an independent game development studio based in Boston. As we work on our debut title, we are developing a pipeline of tools (third-party and in-house) for creating platformer-style games, our current focus. As we continue work on our rapid world-building tool "Platformer," we are looking for artists to help us fill in the aesthetic gaps, and web developers to help us implement a highly automated Quality Assurance system. We aim to build our team as we wrap our debut game, Needlemouse: The Emerald Hills, this summer. With our team and tools built through Needlemouse, we will begin production of our next title in the fall. Though we are based in Boston, we operate entirely remotely using online communication and version control software: Google Wave, Skype, and git; we have team members in San Francisco, South Carolina, Vancouver, and the UK.