Video Game Design Tutor
Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
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Job Description
About The Role of a Video Game Design Tutor
Varsity Tutors' Live Learning Platform seeks online Video Game Design Tutors to connect with thousands of students nationally. As a tutor, you'll benefit from the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a significant impact on students' academic success and understanding, all from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Varsity Tutors' Platform?
- Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
- Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for your tutoring sessions.
- Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
- Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform; no commuting is required.
- Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
- Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
- Varsity Tutors handles all logistics; you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we manage payments.
What Varsity Tutors Looks For In a Video Game Design Tutor
Successful Video Game Design Tutors possess a blend of advanced subject mastery, conceptual teaching abilities, curriculum awareness, and effective instructional methods.
- Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of game design principles, game mechanics, level design, narrative design, user interface design, game engines including Unity and Unreal, basic programming for games, art asset creation, and playtesting methodology is essential. You should be able to explain game loop architecture, player psychology, balancing mechanics, and iterative design while preparing students for game development careers and interactive media programs.
- Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching game concept development, engine-based implementation, and iterative design refinement. This includes guiding students through designing game mechanics documents, building levels in game engines, programming player interactions, creating or integrating art assets, and conducting playtesting sessions. Emphasize the iterative design process and connect game design to computer science, visual arts, storytelling, and user experience design disciplines.
- Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiarity with game design curricula and common challenges such as scope management for game projects, learning game engine interfaces, and balancing game mechanics. Adapt instruction using game engine tutorials, design document templates, and progressive project milestones to support students from aspiring designers exploring concepts through advanced developers building playable game prototypes and portfolio pieces.
- Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles. Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style are crucial.
Ways To Connect With Students
- 1-on-1 Online Tutoring: Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
- Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.
About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring
Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.
Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.
Key skills/competency
- Game Design Principles
- Unity Engine
- Unreal Engine
- Game Mechanics
- Level Design
- Basic Programming
- Iterative Design
- Teaching Methods
- Curriculum Development
- Problem Solving
How to Get Hired at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
- Research Varsity Tutors' culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Highlight game design expertise: Customize your resume to showcase advanced knowledge in game design principles, engines like Unity/Unreal, and programming fundamentals.
- Emphasize teaching experience: Detail your ability to explain complex concepts, adapt teaching styles, and foster student understanding in interactive media and game development.
- Prepare for conceptual interviews: Be ready to discuss how you would guide students through game concept development, iterative design, and problem-solving scenarios.
- Showcase technical proficiency: Be prepared to demonstrate your understanding of game engines, asset creation, and playtesting methodologies relevant to the Video Game Design Tutor role.
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