Adknown Hiring for Junior Unity Game Developer at Guelph, ON Full Time

Our Game Development department develops small mobile apps using Unity Engine with small development cycles. We build all our games from the ground up, with over 300+ games released in the last 3 years on Google Play and the App Store.

We are looking for an exceptional person to work with us as a Unity Game Developer. Here at Adknown, you will be working individually to create 15+ mobile games beside other skilled developers.

Here we focus on how to make the game unique instead of being mechanically distinct, game mechanics are a low priority. We will teach you how to make games unique through innovative processes. If following innovative processes excite you to make games this is the place for you!

Duties

All aspects of the Game Development Process (Game Idea, paper prototype, art, coding, game design, UI design, MVP, game testing, receive feedback, publish game) in 8 day development cycle

Working in an agile-friendly environment, where you will test other peoples games, collect feedback on your game and implement the feedback

Fix bugs on existing games as well as adding new features

Use existing art assets, create your own, or work with third party assets

Publish games to Google Play and App Store

You will also be trained here at Adknown on all the above tasks

Essentials

1+ years of Unity professional game development experience or a strong portfolio of equivalent Unity work

Art skills (Pencil + paper drawing, some 2D art skills, understand color theory)

Education: Graduate with a degree or diploma program in game development or equivalent field of study (Computer Science / Software Engineer)

Able to create 15+ unique and creative Game Ideas following all requirements ( keeping in mind we have 300+ published games)

Must embrace and be comfortable to receive feedback from your Manager and peers on your games

Must be able to adapt your Game Idea / Game to the received feedback, and still get it to a publishable state from that feedback

Strong understanding of Unity Engine, Game Design, and UI Design

Time Management skills

Bonus Points

Able to create art and use drawing tablets

An eye for understanding mobile game trends on Google Play and App Store and being able to translate that into your games

Unity Shader skills

Perks

Competitive Salary

We offer the industry standard perks such as a fully stocked fridge, a giant staff room complete with pool table, foosball, dart board, bar, lounge area with TV and video games that you are welcome to everyday

Weekly company paid team lunches downtown Guelph

Free parking

Regular social events ranging from board games, pizza parties, social games, and “field trips” that occur every quarter

Work in a friendly, open, creative, fun and innovative work environment

Some perks are unavailable due to Covid-19