Intern - Gameplay Designer

Job Description

GAMEPLAY DESIGN INTERN

Epic Games is on the lookout for dynamic interns to join our dev teams in 2024. Whether you work on Fortnite, Unreal Engine, or any of our other games, products, and services, you'll join a team that's pushing the limits of interactive entertainment.
Our Interns re given challenging projects throughout the work term and are provided with a meaningful experience with high expectations for performance. If you want to build something Epic, this is the opportunity for you!

DESIGN

What We Do

Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.

What You'll Do

In this role, you'll contribute to the design and implementation of exciting new Fortnite Battle Royale experiences. Whether creating new weapons, prototyping new gameplay abilities, tuning vehicles, implementing new game systems, or standing up entirely new game modes, you'll be helping to shape the future of Fortnite and interactive entertainment at Epic.

In this role, you will
• Participate in the ideation and brainstorming of new items for upcoming seasons of Fortnite Battle Royale.
• Investigate and fix bugs with features in a way that grows your overall knowledge of Fortnite design and technical implementation.
• Learn how to own items and features as a vision holder, creating documentation and owning the outcome.
• Work in the Unreal Engine to implement your designs in Blueprint in close collaboration with other designers, engineers, QA analysts, animators, VFX artists, sound artists, UI designers, and others.
• Attend playtests, provide feedback, and help identify practical solutions to problems.

What we're looking for
• Passion for games with a basic breadth of game knowledge.
• Basic familiarity with scripting or programming in any context (i.e. Unreal/Blueprint projects, Unity/C#, Python, or any kind of visual node-based programming).
• Familiarity with Fortnite Battle Royale
• Solid communication skills and the ability to express ideas in a variety of ways (verbal, documents, diagrams, etc.).
• Someone who is passionate, solution-oriented and embodies the ''get things done''.

A portfolio/reel/website is required with application. Please hyperlink it to your resume, or submit it as an attachment with your application.

This internship has a flexible start date in 2024. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic's Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv206w-18-118-19-89-42 in your application.