Serious Games Interactive seeks game designer

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Serious Games seeks a fulltime game designer to be part of our growing company with several new projects in the pipeline - both internal ones and external ones for major clients. You will we be responsible for the game design of our titles all the way from making the concept and dynamics over ensuring it is implemented to tweaking the final game.

We have a number of client projects, where we have smaller and quicker design iterations in collaboration with the clients and where the scope is often pretty locked, although the variation between projects is huge. An important quality is therefore also communication both internally and externally to ensure that you get the best design result.

You must be able to grow with the tasks as our company and productions expand. We have currently finished two internal titles and numerous client projects, so you will be part of a well established and growing team. The computer games we make must both work on the commercial entertainment market and tap into the current educational systems’ growing interest in learning games.

Who are you?
You thrive with handling a number of different tasks across the game design area. You prefer to get your hands dirty but can still manage and outsource parts of the task within budget & time.

• A relevant educational background
  Preferable knowledge about game development and learning
  Good communication skills
  Ambitious, mature and can work independently
  You have +2 years relevant work experience with game design

Why work for us?

• The opportunity to make your mark on a new type of computer games
  Be part of a solid development team
  Much responsibility and influence on the development
  Work with computer games that make a difference

About Serious Games Interactive
We develop computer games with an agenda that goes beyond entertainment. We believe that computer games can be engaging and enlightening on an endless number of issues. Our first production is Global Conflicts: Palestine won several award and nominations. We has been featured in international media worldwide including BBC and CNN. Our second production Global Conflicts: Latin America has been released a few month ago, and have also been received positively.

Team: Currently we are 15 people.

Place: Copenhagen, Nørrebro near Skt. Hans Square.

Practical information
Closing date for applications: 15. January 2009
Start date: 1. March 2009

Wage: After qualifications

Applications can be sent to jobs@seriousgames.dk


Contact information
Serious Games Interactive
Griffenfeldsgade 7A, 4. floor
2200 Copenhagen N

For more information contact CEO Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen at e-mail sen@seriousgames.dk or phone + 45 40 10 79 69.