Level Design Internship (Summer 2020)
Epic Games Design Team is looking for a smart, creative Level Design Intern to join them for summer 2020. Our Interns are given challenging projects over the work term, and are provided with a meaningful experience with high expectations for performance. If you want to build something Epic, this is the opportunity for you!
This team is responsible for the design of the mobile game, SpyJinx. This includes creating and maintaining daily player challenges and campaign story content, creating features through UI and Blueprint scripting support, running playtests including collecting and acting on player feedback, game balancing and economies, and the onboarding of new players. Join this team at an exciting time to help create content in a live game production environment.
Responsibilities:
- Creating level content for SpyJinx including populating level assets, aligning the level design of content with the overall game economy, playtesting and fixing issues, participating in story brainstorms, and scripting unique story moments.
- Participating in daily internal playtests, providing feedback, and monitoring feedback from external players.
- Working with Jira to triage issues, organize daily tasks, and enter and fix bugs within a live production environment.
- Working with UMG to help stand up new features with first pass UI, fix existing UI issues, and debug why sections of the UI and new player Onboarding may be misbehaving.
Qualifications:
- You will not be considered without an online portfolio showing examples of your design work and a playable module is required - we want to see a short encapsulated gameplay experience so show us what you can do!
- Visual Scripting and Blueprints experience required.
- Exposure to UMG, PHP, Python, C++
- Unreal 4.0 experience
- Blueprint, UMG experience
- A passion for games and game design
This is a paid internship, running May 26 through August 14. All candidates must be eligible to work 40 hours per week on site in South Jordan, UT. Intern recruitment for summer 2020 roles will run through February 2020, or until teams find an ideal match.
This is going to be Epic!