Description
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| Title: Lead Game Designer |
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| Reporting to: Producer |
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Job Summary:
Duties: |
- Assume the responsibility of managing and coaching the game design team.
- Participating in the conception period by directing the research period and directing the brain storming period.
- Responsible to define the story, emotions and mechanics of the game.
- Writing and updating the design documents that are going to be presented to the development team and the head office.
- Participating to the presentations and meetings for the project with the development team and the head office.
- Communicates the vision of the game design to the team in order to ensure the uniformity in the development of the game for the whole duration of the project.
- Collaborating with the level design to communicate the story, emotions and game mechanics in each level.
- Validates with the Level Design that the learning curve and the gameplay are interesting, for the whole duration of the project.
- Collaborating with the artistic director to ensure that the visual aspect of the game is matching the story and emotions that the design team wants to create.
- Setting up a plan system and a task sheet while keeping in mind the needs and duration of the production.
- Evaluate and address the tasks to the Game Design team keeping in mind the qualifications and skills of each individual.
- Participate in the interview process to recruit the Game Design team.
- Participates to the annual performance evaluations.
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Person Specification:
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| Profile |
Essential |
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| Experience and Qualifications |
- Diploma in Game Design or related experience
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in the videogame industry and at least one year in a Lead position
- Bilingual
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| Technical Skills |
- Connaissances des principes de Game Design : Camera, control, character
- Expérience en planification et gestion de projet
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| Interpersonal Skills |
- Capacité à communiquer sa vision, coacher et mobiliser une équipe de travail
- Excellente capacité de rédiger et de synthétiser ses idées
- Connaissances de contraintes technologiques reliées au jeu vidéo est considéré un atout
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| Motivation and Interests |
- Ambition and passion for video games are essential!
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