Alpha World is a new style of game download client. Instead of showing available games in a list like Steam does, we let gamers discover games in a big open game world. Your job will be to design the initial prototypes of this world with the potential of joining as a co-founder.

Your main task is to design and build the initial prototypes of Alpha World. The purpose is to uncover how Alpha World should look. Should there be quests? Storylines? How do gamers discover games? And plenty of more unanswered questions... Together we will decide what to test. You will design a short game experience around that test and build a simple prototype in Unity/Unreal Engine which a small army of game testers get to play. Based on feedback we may do a couple of iterations. When we have a broad picture of how Alpha World should look all the pieces will be put together into a more detailed Beta version.

The main components you will design are:

• A mockup of a small 3D game world
• A storyline/quests taking gamers through the prototype
• A simple user interface
• Main menu/settings screen

Other than a must have interest in game design it would be great if you can check off a couple of the points below:

• Participation in the design of a commercially successful game
• 2+ years of work experience in game design
• Ability to create simple playable prototypes in Unity or similar (using prefabs is fine)
• Experience with writing simple code in C# or similar

It is a plus if you have experience with the following:

• 3D graphics creation in Blender/Maya or similar
• Character animation
• Sound
• Creating interesting terrains
• Playing open world games like WoW or GTA (if those abbreviations mean nothing to you, you are most definitely in the wrong place :-))

If you have the necessary skills and would like to join a startup at a very early stage send your CV plus a sentence about your favorite game and why you love it. 

Looking forward to hearing from you :-)