.50 FTE Game Design Graduate Assistant Position

This .50FTE graduate assistant position will pay $12.18 – $18.68 an hour (pending experience), with tuition waiver being available starting Spring 2014, and has the potential of continuing for another two years.

A major part of this position is to help design a learning game and define the way the game is played and the ‘game experience,’ including

• the rules of the game
• the setting, story, and characters
• different ways the game may be played

Part of this position is to turn original vision and design into a functional game prototype.

Required competencies:

• be creative, imaginative and original
• enjoy IT and playing computer games
• have problem-solving skills
• have design skills
• be fluent in simple behavior scripts: JavaScript or C#
• capable of doing design-based user testing and research

Preferred skills:

• be fluent in scripting with Unity
• be fluent in a number of 3D computer graphics software packages (e.g., Blender and/or Google SketchUp)

If you are interested, please send your resume, brief description of your educational and work experience, classification and major via email to Dr. Fengfeng Ke (fke@fsu.edu), by September 30, 2013. We intend to interview starting October 1^st, and the intended hire date is October 14^th. More details about work will be discussed with candidates after initial screening.