Gaming Designer

Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Salary
£26000 - £30000 per annum
Posted
11 May 2017
Closes
08 Jun 2017
Ref
FT3018
Contact
FINTEC Team
Sectors
IT, Programming
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

FINTEC recruit is seeking a Games Designer for our Gaming sector client . This is a permanent role based in Manchester. We are looking for a mathematician or probability expert, creating the maths models . This position is an opportunity to develop into a game designer or producer of games. You will have experience with Python, C/C++, JAVA or Visual Basic programming languages

Responsibility of the Games Designer Role:

  • Create math models for the games targeted for gaming markets, delivering data to the game developers and support documentation to external test/approval laboratories.
  • Models are created in a variety of methods, including Excel and various sophisticated proprietary tools.
  • Work with the game producer and team to create the optimal game play profile to ensure player appeal.
  • Review games as they are implemented to ensure that they reflect the correct math model.
  • Critique games to select the most appropriate games for the gaming business markets

Qualification and Skill Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mathematics or Statistics (or equivalent experience);
  • A strong understanding and experience of probability theory.
  • An advanced user of MS Excel, comfortable creating and adapting large and complex spreadsheets
  • Typically has 2 - 5 years of commercial experience using maths and excel in a professional context.
  • Programming skills to create or adapt simulation programs in a variety of languages - Pyton, C, C++ etc
  • Knowledge of gaming products is not essential but clearly an advantage
  • Strong analytical skills and problem solving abilities
  • Must be able to travel as needed

Advantageous skills:

  • Experience with Python, C/C++, JAVA or Visual Basic programming languages to help develop simulations or more complicated math models.
  • Strong enthusiasm for games in general and gambling games in particular

Please click on apply or send your CV directly to our team and quote Ref: FT3018

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