Master Thesis – Text Readability in 3D Worlds i Stockholm

We entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning developer based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise.

This Master Thesis will be created in a talented multi-disciplinary team developing the tools and game runtime behind the amazing worlds you see in Frostbite games. This includes the workflows and systems for building levels and objects in Frostbite. In the team we collaborate closely on a day-to-day basis to make sure game teams around the world have great workflows and performance and flexible runtime for their games.

UI Engineering at DICE is looking for ways to increase readability of text in different scenarios. As the implementation is performance critical, we think this can be an interesting problem to solve.

We are offering one Master thesis position with one of two preliminary topics:

• Why: Our current solution uses a fixed size texture where we render our glyphs. This doesn’t look good when you want scaled text.
• Some previous research: 

• Why: In Battlefield V, we have issues with displaying text on white backgrounds.
• We tested some ideas like auto adjusting the contrast between the background and the foreground.
• We ended up using a full screen effect that applied a “drop shadow” where the brightness was a problem.

• 20 week / full semester Master Thesis
• Experience working in C++
• Experience in some hobby game development is useful but not required

The Master Thesis needs to be associated with a Swedish University education or any other type of education that has a Master Thesis in the education plan. Please consider this before applying and potentially move to Stockholm, Sweden. During this process you may be asked to perform a work assignment. Please apply online with a CV and Cover Letter in English.

We wish to get your application as soon as possible as we are looking for the thesis work to start during spring. Looking forward to hearing from you!