Electronic Arts is looking to incubate new potential titles for the EA Lifestyle Group, focusing on games for imaginative creators that allow players to express their unique personality. The goal is to prototype new game concepts for web and social platforms, explore emerging technologies, and shape EA's exploration of new forms of play.
Requirements
- Strong experience building interactive prototypes or applications with JavaScript (or Python or Unity experience), with a willingness to learn new tools quickly
- Familiarity with one or more game engines such as Unity, Godot or Unreal with a shipped mobile or web game
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality prototypes under fast iteration cycles, from concept to testable product
- Excellent problem-solving skills: creates solutions that honor design intentions and make the game better for players
- Fearless with new technologies; curious, adaptable, and skilled at finding what works in practice
Responsibilities
- Rapidly prototype gameplay experiences using JavaScript, HMTL 5, Unity style environment or other scripting languages, delivering clear, playable results
- Work with design and art to capture the spirit and goals of each concept — and, where possible, elevate it
- Adapt and optimize legacy assets for new mediums, finding creative ways to make them shine in prototypes
- Connect prototypes with internal and external services (leaderboards, social hooks, multiplayer-lite features) to maximize engagement
- Provide technical feedback and always find creative ways forward
- Explore and adapt emerging technologies, finding ways to bring new capabilities into our prototyping process and, ultimately, to market.
Other
- Bring positive energy: support teammates, build on their ideas, and set a standard that raises the whole team’s performance
- Positive team presence — adds energy, inspires peers, encourages contributions, and motivates others to raise their game
- Clear communicator — explains tradeoffs and solutions in plain language to both technical and non-technical teammates
- Genuine enthusiasm for games, with a strong focus on players and a deep curiosity about how people play and express themselves
- We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity.
