Smart toy startup seeking a creative and talented game design intern with Unity experience to help develop our mobile gaming app.

UDU is a danish toy-startup from DTU who develop interactive smart toys that make it more fun for kids to play and be physically active. In doing so, we help solve the major health problems inactivity causes for the next generations.

We are a rapidly growing startup and are currently working on finalizing the details on our first revolutionary product, getting it ready for production and patenting the technical solutions. To make it as fun as possible, the toy will connect with a gaming platform on the user’s smartphone. We are currently at the stage where this mobile gaming platform is ready to be developed. Here we want to design and program fun and cool games that kids will play with for hours, and this is where you come into the picture.

🏄‍♂️ The job 

• In collaboration with us, ideate on and develop an awesome game experience

• Co-design the game layout, storyline, UX and style

• Co-design the core-game, challenges and quests

• Collaborate with our external electronics suppliers on data input and output

• Make apps mockups

• Test on target group (kids 8+) and get instant feedback on your work.

🛠 Skills 

You need to...

• Have a playful and open mindset and a passion for game design!

• Have the skills to design funny, cool and innovative games for kids in the age 8+

• Have an eye for modern mobile app design that is intuitive and visually appealing.

• Have some experience with Unity development so you understand what has to be programmed

• Have experiences with mockups, iterative prototyping, and user tests

• (Graphics and game-art experience is a plus)

💎 You get

• An awesome time in one of Denmark's most fun and cool tech-startups where you for sure will learn a lot

• The power to shape the future of play experiences (lightsaber included 😉)

• The opportunity to play and work at the same time every day

• Exciting, meaningful and value-creating works tasks every day with all the responsibility you can handle

• The opportunity to test yourself and your skills in a real-life startup environment

• Access to professional prototype facilities at DTU

• Possibility of employment, co-ownership or freelance work after the internship

We think that the most important thing about an internship at UDU is that you learn something valuable. As a part of the intern period, we will, therefore, have a weekly evaluation meeting to secure that you reach your personal targets, gain the new skills you are interested in and work with something that you are passionate about. 

Expected start: ASAP

For more information about UDU see: www.udu.dk

We hope to see you for an interview,

Marius and Asbjørn - UDU