Saturday 26 October 2013

Possible career positions which my DIssertations could lead to.

Job's found on Gamasautra:

Games Design:

All Levels:

Shiver Entertainment have an advertisement on Gamasutra for a game designer. The requirements for this position are, minimum of one professional title, to be motivated and passionate about a broad range of genres and platforms. This advertismen also details they will hire artists and game play programmers. This new start up company will produce freemium games for Windows, Android and iOS. This company is focused on immersive gaming experiences for the plat forms listed above. The idea is for the designers to bring AAA experiences to mobile and tablet devices. The CEO is John Schappert, the former COO if EA and Synga and former head of Microsoft.
http://jobs.gamasutra.com/job/game-designers-all-levels-miami-florida-25277

Since I will be creating my game in Unity, my project could be transferred to a mobile platform and the controls would have to be simple enough for players to use on a tablet device. The job type for this is 'Game Design' and the studio is located in Miami, Florida.

The experience level for this application is N/A and the educational requirement for it is a basic high school certificate.

Senior:

Interactive Selection
Location: Midlands, UK

Involves: Working on AAA title, taking on responsability for for large sections of game design, leading junior team members. Reporting to lead designer, one will ensuring quality of design in allocated area. Must be working with and developing design staff and will act as a champion of quality across game team. Must be flexible, approachable and motivated.

Requirements: At least 5 years industry experience. Experience working as a senior designer on at least one published title current generation console (PS3). Consistent high quality of work, excellent communication skills, can write in a stylish and persuasive manner, excellent working knowledge and passion for racing games.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs/interactive-selection/midlands/england/uk-and-europe/senior-games-designer-games-innovator-id62140


Programming:

Junior:

Hay Specialist Recruitment
Experience: Mobile games.
Education Bachelor's Degree

This role is mainly about coding the front-end client for games, yet you need to be involved with every stage of game development from beginning to the end.

Essential: Computer Science Degree with games technology module.

Desired: Enthusiasm (plus one or more of the following), experience with Unity, Unity3D, C#, SQL, JAVA, FLASH.

http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Junior-Games-Developer-Job-London-London-UK-126117353.aspx?from=indeed

Senior:

Linden Lab

Software Engineer, Unity

Education: Bachelor's Degree  Location: San Francisco

The job involves working on new and exiting game projects. One's has to deal with versatility and change
and as an engineer one will end up learning new skills. The task involves working on live code bases.

What's involved:

Building new systems and improve existing ones. Collcaborate with other engineers on live products in using agile development. Extending and optimizing large scale game systems, such as physics and game play mechanic. Aid mentor and help juniors, and work closely with other department such as artists and designers.

Required skills:

5+ years of software engineering.
High proficiency in C# or C++
Sharp focus on prioritization on user-experience and know where and when trade offs need to be made.
Collaborative and fast to adapt in a multi-tasking, fast paced distributed thinking environment.
Strong 3D maths skills

Bonus Skills:

Previous Experience with Unity
Previous game industry experience
Experience with physics systems development

Lead:

Rumble Entertainment Inc.
Experience: Mid-Senior

Direct a team of programmers for an online AAA game with a large scale deployment. The department also works with other disciplines of games design.

Desired Skills: Fluent in C#, C++ or Java, experience with other languages is a plus. BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Effective in directing and delivering production soft-ware for high quality games.
10+ years development experience with one shipped game product as a technical lead.
Direct experience with client/server typologies used in online games.

Bonus: iOS or Android experience, Unity 3D game engine experience, Experience with online game services.

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