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Game Design Intern
2 years ago
Job Description
As a Game Designer Intern, you will add content to the game, create and improve game features. You will be part of a game development team and work together with the game designers of the project. You will also be exposed to the daily production and process of a free-to-play mobile title.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of the Design team to design, redesign new and existing features of the game.
- Design the assigned content in line with the project’s vision and quality standards.
- Work closely with the team to ensure that the design specifications meet the quality expectations of the project.
- Prototype and implement the designs in game while understanding quality metrics to assess their impact.
- Facilitate communication between designers, artists and programmers to ensure that the quality and implementation matches the intended direction / vision.
- Quickly iterate designs to continuously improve the game’s quality
- Focus on the player experience as the ultimate metric for the quality of features and content.
- Evaluate player feedback, data and community sentiment to improve features.
Qualifications
- Any workshop or school project representative of industry experience appreciated
- Any degree in game design appreciated
- Understanding of psychological mechanisms that keep players engaged
- A strong sense of what makes gameplay experience compelling and fun
- Solid theoretical and practical Game Design knowledge
- Intense creativity, a passion to innovate, and the drive to go beyond what is directly asked of you
- Self-motivated and fast learning
- Good communication skills
- Be a team player
- Fluent in English, both verbally and written
Additional Information
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Company Description
Opened in October 2011, Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is one of the first major video game studios based in the UAE capital and is focusing on developing and bringing to market successful mobile games for a worldwide audience.
This position is based in the vibrant expat city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi is multi-cultural city, based on an island in the Persian Gulf and 1-hour drive from Dubai. Abu Dhabi offers vibrant social and forward-thinking cultural lifestyle. It has an array of experiences and events including pristine beaches, Formula 1, Theme Parks, Louvre Museum, vibrant nightlife and year-round sunshine. Having ranked number 1 for the past 4 years in a row as the safest city in the world (Numbeo), providing a great home and standard of living.
Ubisoft Abu Dhabi successfully released two hidden-object / investigation free-to-play mobile titles: CSI: Hidden Crimes™ and NCIS: Hidden Crimes™. With the acquisition in February 2017 of the massive multiplayer free-to-play game Growtopia, the studio works on the title’s live operations. The team keeps focusing its efforts on creating further content for its live games and strengthening its player’s engagement in addition to work on other unannounced projects.
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