Community Manager
Part time or Full time function at our office in Den Haag, the Netherlands

GamePoint
GamePoint has been on the cutting edge of online gaming for over a decade. Our Dutch, German and International platforms are a meeting place for millions of people and feature an extensive collection of realtime multiplayer games, aimed at keeping people entertained and engaged. Our platforms have been localized in over a dozen languages and are available via our own portals, partner websites and major social networks.

What we look for in a Community Manager
Do you live and breathe social media, communities and web care?
Are you creative, highly social and sensitive to the needs of other cultures?
Are you flexible, a team player and are you also able to work independently?

As Community Manager (CM) you are the link between players and GamePoint. You will support our German speaking community with any questions or comments they have and will have a leading role in developing online events for our German audience.

Community Manager is organized around the following five pillars:
• Support: Helpdesk, Testing and Development
• Organization: Teams, Volunteers
• Communication: Phone, Social Media, Chat, eMail and Blogs
• Events: Create, Develop, Activate
• Management: Plan, Evaluate, Report

What qualifications should you have 
The Community Manager has the following qualifications:

• Communicative, flexible, self-supportive and accessible
• Active in social networks and understanding of advanced functionalities within these networks
• A native German speaker and fluent in English. Any other European languages are a pré
• The personality to match the dynamic field of digital media and –entertainment
• The ability to manage incidental challenges during non-business hours
• Able to handle both stress and fun with the same professional behavior
• Affinity with (casual) games.
• A completed MBO, Bachelor or Master degree in an applicable field.

We offer:
• A fitting salary
• A fun and casual work environment
• Tons of growth opportunities
• Full support in relocating to The Netherlands

If you are interested send an email with your cv to : jobs@gamepoint.com

• Manage testcases in our TestRail system.
• Clarify co-workers’ bug reports and train them in writing better bug reports.
• Work with external contractors to keep our localization efforts up to date.
• Have an affinity for quality and feeling for what the end user needs.
• Be self supporting and flexible.
• Have an affinity with (casual) games.

We offer:

• A competitive salary
• A fun and casual work environment
• Tons of growth opportunities

mail jobs@gamepoint.net with your motivation + cv

Today GamePoint has taken over the cover of Metro newspaper with a nationwide full frontpage advertisement. The goal of our campaign is to inform people about Spelpunt’s prize giveaway later this month as well as job openings at our ever growing company in The Hague.To do this Metro is helping us get a message out to over a million people in the Netherlands.

The giveaway will take place from the 25th of April to the 1st of May and were giving away tons of prizes on our Dutch platform Spelpunt.nl. These prizes range from different electronic gadgets all the way to two sets of 8 concert tickets. So you can take all of your friends out to see the popular Dutch act ´de Toppers´. By publishing this on the front page of Metro we are giving everybody a chance to log in and win some of these amazing prizes!

It is no secret that our organization is growing at a rapid pace. This is why we are always on the lookout for new talent. Getting noticed by talented young professionals can be quite a challenge, that’s why we are going all out in April. On Thursday and Friday we are visiting Festival of Games Career Fair, where we will be present to tell (ex) students about our company and the career opportunities we have to offer.

And of course we have posted a few openings on the front page of Metro newspaper today for everyone to see.

Currently we are looking forward to the reactions from interesting new talent and to grow our team to be ready for exponential growth in the future!

Missed our cover of Metro today? Have a look over here!

GamePoint will be present at this year’s Festival of Games as a sponsor. The fesitval will be held on 19 and 20 April 2012 in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. We will be available to tell you what we do, to build on our network and to find talented new colleagues – Php Coders, Graphic Designers and Marketeers with a passion for gaming.

Festival of Games is an annual conference that covers a broad range of topics by “thought leaders” of the international gaming industry. It includes representatives from different colleges with game design courses and GOC, the competence centre for staff development in the creative industry, as well.

During the two-day conference, we will be showcasing in the GamePoint booth. Additionally, we will be present at Pitch & Match – the 30-minute meetings to network and meet potential business partners. We will also be attending the Career Fair to look for talented professionals and graduates to join us at our headquarters in The Hague. As you can tell, we have many things planned. We hope to see you there!

With increasing temperatures inspiring us, we decided that it would be nice to do something different to announce our Easter event to our community. With the sun added to our view at the beach, our inspiration led to the idea of trying something different to inform our community about an upcoming event. Not much later… The idea of the GamePoint Spring Newspaper was born!

Spring in the Netherlands can be a tricky season, the sun might decide to brace us with its rays, but it might rain, or even snow as well. As the first week of the official “springtime” brought some warmer temperatures, we decided we had to put our new energy to good use. With our Easter event coming up, we decided to announce the event by sending out a free newspaper to the areas where our community is best represented.

In total, we will be distributing 300,000 newspapers to our community members and their neighbours. The newspaper will cover several articles, including one about our Easter event and the prizes that we will be giving away. To get an inside scoop on the life as a GamePoint employee, we also added two columns from our colleagues about a day at the office. Additionally, the newspaper contains testimonials from our GamePoint community about the experiences they gained from playing on the GamePoint platform. This includes a special story about a Dutch and a Canadian GamePoint player who met on GamePoint and are getting married this year.

And so, a lot of interesting and entertaining news about GamePoint will be spread around the Netherlands this week. We hope to make a lot of these people happy by distributing prizes to them when they come online during our Easter event from April 2^nd  until April 8^th.

Due to GamePoint’s extensive growth, our previous datacenter could no longer handle our server park. This meant we had to go on a quest to find a new partner that could cater to our needs, both for our increasing server size and our commercial requirements. After some extensive research, we found our partner in The Datacenter Group.

GamePoint has been growing extensively. Due to this growth, our previous datacenter could no longer provide the necessary support and accommodation for our server park. This led to the conclusion that we had to find a new partner to relocate our server park to. Consequently, GamePoint started looking for a reliable partner that could tackle our server issues due to our growth, while providing support to our other needs as well.

After some comprehensive research of several datacenter suppliers, we decided that The Datacenter Group (TDCG) would be our partner of preference for several reasons. Among others, these reasons include safeguarding our continuing growth, a reliable environment in which quick turn-around times can be dealt with efficiently and the capability to deliver satisfying maintenance and upgrade facilities while at the same time meeting our commercial requirements.

As a gaming platform, our servers are of utmost importance to maintain the reliability of our website. Not only is our website a crucial tool to create a satisfying user experience for our users, but it is also an essential component of our business to retain our identity as a reliable platform. And, a reliable platform needs a reliable datacenter. The Datacenter Group share this view, as said by Clyde Tdlohreg, Sales Director The Datacenter Group: “Through focus, Gamepoint excels in online gaming. The Datacenter Group translates this focus in excellence in trustworthiness, security and availability”. This compatibility, between GamePoint and TDCG, provides us with the possibility to advance our skillful performances at GamePoint.

We look forward to a pleasant partnership and to continue to serve our GamePoint users to our best extend.

After introducing Timeline for its user profiles in September 2011, Facebook has now announced that companies can adopt Timeline to their brand pages as well. Although many businesses are still unsure of how to employ this new feature, GamePoint recognized Timeline’s potential and has now implemented it to its game pages.

As one of the very few invitees to Facebook’s Marketers Conference in New York on 29 February 2012, GamePoint was present for the official introduction of Timeline for Facebook pages. Here, we received first-hand industry knowledge on how to best incorporate Timeline for our game pages on Facebook. Upon return, we immediately put our newfound knowledge to use and updated our game pages to the new Timeline layout.

Timeline has some useful advantages: it allows us to create a more personalized profile, highlight important events and connect more with our fans and friends by highlighting content that deserves more attention. The latter can be done by determining the size of photos and images we post on our Timeline.

We are very excited about our new and improved brand pages and we hope you are too. We have put up some screenshots of our Bingo, Card Party and Royal Dice pages to present you with our new Timelines, but to get the full experience, please visit some of the pages yourself:

Bingo – http://www.facebook.com/GPBingoFans
Card Party – http://www.facebook.com/GPCardPartyFans
Royal Dice – http://www.facebook.com/pages/RoyalDice/250115925076649

After a successful week at the GDC, GamePoint would like to thank everyone who expressed interest and made time to meet with us. With numerous game specialists present at the conference, we look back at a successful GDC 2012 edition with many inspiring professionals and industry-experts.

It was great seeing everyone and having high-level conversations about the games industry and potential business collaborations. We look forward to an even more successful future!

GamePoint is proud to present our first TV commercial, which will be airing on digital TV-channels RTL Lounge and RTL Crime throughout the month of March.

RTL Lounge and RTL Crime are part of RTL Group, Europe’s largest television-, radio- and production company. With these two channels, RTL has expanded into digital broadcasting, adding to its large free-to-air position in the Netherlands.

GamePoint’s new commercial aims to increase top-of-mind awareness amongst our existing users as well as our potential users. We give a preview of the games we provide and point out that playing these interactive games is a fun way to spend time and a great opportunity to meet new people and increase a circle of online friends. We hope you and the RTL Lounge and RTL Crime viewers will enjoy our brand new commercial. Watch the commercial here: