[GAMBIT-UROPS-summon] GAMBIT Fall UROP Open House - Friday, 4:30pm at the Lab (NE25) PLEASE RSVP

[Rik Eberhardt]

The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab has 18 positions open this Fall for MIT undergraduates!

Come by the lab on Friday, September 10th at 4:30pm for a presentation about the projects we are working on and to meet our researchers. This is a mandatory event if you wish to be hired for one of these positions.

Pizza will be provided at 4:30pm in the GAMBIT TV Lounge. The presentations start at 5pm sharp. We are located in the third floor of 5 Cambridge Center (NE25):
http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=NE25

Please RSVP by emailing reberhar at mit.edu that you will be attending. If you have never worked for GAMBIT before, please email me the information I ask for at this page (resume, letter, etc...):
http://gambit.mit.edu/urops

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We are currently hiring for these positions.

7 Programmers (both junior and senior)
- looking for people skilled in basic object-oriented programming (experience with Java, Python, C#, and ActionScript is useful)

2 Designers
- we are looking for game designers who can demonstrate creativity while working within constraints
- experience in designing board, card, RPD, live action, or video games is required

4 Quality Assurance Testers
- if you have no prior experience in developing games, but an interest in learning how, this is the position for you
- for our lab, QA helps us make sure our games reach a standard of quality through technical and focus testing
- these are 6 hour/week positions that are designed for Freshmen and beginners

2 Technical Writers
- we have some documentation duties regarding manuals and a wiki of our development process

1 Game Studies Research Assistant
- one of our researchers is looking for assistance in playing and writing reports on social video games for her research

1 Marketing Intern
- we would like an intern to manage our social media presence and to assist in posting content to our website

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The projects we are working on this Fall will be described in length at this event. Here is a short version of the type of work that you could work on:

Antigone: we've created 2 games based on Sophocles' Theban plays (Seer and Yet One Word) and will be working on paper prototypes for a third game in the series

Click-to-Speak: we created a game engine for creating one-button audio-centric games in Flash and will be creating a sample game with this engine

Clockwork: a game that we've been working on for the past year that needs a final polish pass on programming, UI, and audio integration

Flixel Library: many of our games use the Flixel library for ActionScript. There are some problems we've come across that we'd like to explore and solve (one of which is creating a generic Sound Manager for our future games)

Symon: one of the games we created this past summer is a point-and-click adventure game that currently only supports a few types of puzzles. We have the basic code for more puzzle types that we'd like to bug-fix and implement this Fall

QA Team: our QA team will be working with the developers on these projects to stress- and bug-test them, as well as arrange focus testing during the semester

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Most of our hiring is done via the MIT UROP program, more info about which is here: http://web.mit.edu/urop

After the Open House, I will arrange interviews as necessary for the following Monday and Tuesday. Final decision will be made by Wednesday morning. UROP Proposals (sent to the UROP office) are then due at 4pm on Thursday, September 16th.


Rik Eberhardt
Studio Manager
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab