Virtual Reality and Interactive Simulation Computer Game Developer

Are you looking for a way to let your creative juices flow...Here is your chance!

•Create the core features of an online virtual reality game 
•Avatar Design
•Design role-plays mechanics and landscapes
•Create prototypes for staff and management?
•Create Mobile App version of the game 

We are an educational institution, looking for an individual who can create a virtual reality and interactive simulation online computer game. This video game intended to help college students of all ages understand how to better manage their finances through the use of simulated reality.

Desired Skills

C++, Game Development, HTML, Javascript, iOS 7

Contact

Yesima D. Williams

Financial Coach

The Community College of Baltimore County-Dundalk

7200 Sollers Point Road

Baltimore, MD 21222

ywilliams@ccbcmd.edu

Make plans to come to the 2013 UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) on Saturday, April 27th, starting at 10am in the Engineering Building lecture hall on the UMBC campus. This day long event is organized by the UMBC Game Developers Club, and sponsored this year by Mindgrub.

The DEC is free, open to anyone, and features speakers from Firaxis Games, Zenimax, Pure Bang Games, Bioware Mythic, and Mindgrub. Whether you are a High School student, go to UMBC or another University, or are already working in a different industry, you are sure find interesting information about how the games industry works, how some current developers got started, and what they do. If you are a game developer, you are sure to find High School students, UMBC students and students from other Universities who are interested in jobs in the games industry.

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The Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day is a great tradition at UMBC. It celebrates creative work done by UMBC undergraduates through posters and presentations. This year's is Wednesday April 25th.

The game developers club has long presented their creative works at URCAD. This year, we've got an extra dose of game. The featured alumni speaker is Joshua Barczak. Josh is currently a Senior Graphics Engineer at Firaxis Games. He got his BS (CMSC 2003) and MS (CMSC 2006) at UMBC. His talk is during the general session, 12-1 in UC 312. Be sure to check it out if you can!

UMBC has earned an Honorable Mention on The Princeton Review's third annual list of undergraduate schools to study game design, placing it in the top 32 undergraduate schools for game design and development in the U.S. and Canada.

The list, "Top Schools To Study Video Game Design For 2012," salutes 50 institutions (32 undergraduate and 18 graduate) for their outstanding game design and development programs.

Compiled by The Princeton Review, one of America’s best-known education services companies, the 2012 list names 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate schools in ranked order and 22 undergraduate and 8 graduate schools as Honorable Mentions. The list is published on The Princeton Review’s website at www.princetonreview.com/game-design.aspx.

The Princeton Review chose the schools based on a survey it conducted in the 2011-12 academic year of administrators at 150 institutions offering video game design coursework and/or degrees in the United States and Canada. The survey, which included more than 50 questions, covered a wide range of topics from academics, curriculum, and faculty credentials to graduates’ employment and career achievements. School selections were based on a comprehensive analysis of data that analyzed the quality of the curriculum, faculty, facilities, and infrastructure, plus the school's scholarships, financial aid and career services.

Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior VP/Publisher, “It has long been our mission to help students find – and get into – the schools best for them to purse their interests and develop their talents. For the burgeoning number of students aspiring to become game designers, we highly recommend UMBC as one of the best and most innovate institutions to study and succeed in this exciting field. We also salute the faculty and administrators at UMBC and the other schools on our 2012 list for their extraordinary programs and commitment to students. "

Microsoft is offering a great incentive for Global Game Jam teams at UMBC who make a Windows Phone game this weekend: a Windows Phone. Come early Friday (at 4pm) to UMBC ENG 005 to see a pre-jam demo on developing Windows Phone games. There will be a Microsoft representative on site this weekend to help you out if you have problems, and any team that makes a Windows Phone game gets a free phone!

Or come at 5pm for any of the other ways of developing game jam games: Microsoft XNA Game Studio, Flash, Unity (free Pro trial available for game jammers), GameMaker (free HTML 5 version for game jammers), or any other freely available game development tools.

The Global Game Jam at UMBC is free and open to anyone college age or up with advance sign-up at www.globalgamejam.org. You don't need to be a UMBC student. Be sure to choose UMBC as your site. We can only take the first 40, so don't miss out!