Alex Seropian wants YOU on his team

Alex Seropian is the president of Wideload Games, founder of Halo developer Bungie Studios, and DePaul’s new Game Designer in Residence. This summer and fall he’s leading a student game development project here at DePaul with the intention of creating a game from concept to completion that will enter the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase (and hopefully win) and be released commercially. In addition to Alex, the team will also be mentored by Joe Linhoff (programming), Patrick Curry (design), Scott Roberts (art) and Bill Muehl (production). The team will be comprised of 10-12 of the best game programmers, producers, designers, modelers and animators at DePaul. Is that you? You’ll need to commit to a 24 week production schedule from June through November, and be willing to work hard.

This development project is open to graduate and undergraduate students, and will fulfill the Junior Year Experiential Learning requirement in Liberal Studies.

To apply you need to email the following materials by May 1 to sroberts@cim.depaul.edu State in your email why we need you on our team, and what role(s) you’d like to perform.

What to submit:

All applicants must submit a resume. You should also submit the materials below, depending on the position(s) you’re applying for. Applications that don’t include all the materials will still be looked at, so apply with what you’ve got.

Producers:

a hypothetical or real-world example of a one month schedule including task lists w/ estimates for each discipline (art, audio, design, programming, QA)
an outline of how you would break down the 24 weeks of this project into development phases
a one page proposal of how you would promote the finished game

Designers:

descriptions and images of games/levels you’ve designed
an original written game design (for either a card/board/tabletop game or video game)

Artists: a portfolio that includes 6 samples of your best work (drawings, images of 3D models, images of design work, and/or links to QuickTime movies showing your work)

Programmers:

a short programming portfolio of your latest or best work including a description of that work and screenshots if available.
write C/C+ pseudo-code to solve the following problem: You are passed a pointer, char *board, to array of 256 characters arranged as a 16×16 Scrabble-like board. Each entry contains an ASCII character ’tile’ or a zero. Tiles are considered ‘neighbors’ if they share a vertical or horizontal edge. A ‘neighborhood’ is a set of tiles with neighbor in common. Find and return the size of the largest neighborhood on the board. Where tradeoffs are possible, optimize the algorithm for speed of execution.
write a Haiku with the word pointer (or pointers) in it.

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