Role

Senior Game Designer

Reports To

Lead Game Designer

Description

Duties

Take charge of specific gameplay systems from conception to delivery;

Write and maintain the game design documentation;

Create prototypes in order to validate concepts before implementation;

Present the design to the team once game systems have been conceptualized;

Follow the game systems as they go through the implementation process and provide corrections where necessary;

Balance the systems once they’ve been implemented;

Work with the level designers in the application of the systems within the game;

Act as mentor to junior members of the team.

Experience and Qualifications

At least 5 years experience in the game industry as a game designer;

Working knowledge of both French and English, written and spoken or willingness to learn;

Knowledge of (or desire to learn about) psychology as applied to games;

Flexibility in learning new concepts or game systems;

Ability to deal with more than one issue at a time (multi-tasking);

Ability to work under the direction of someone else (either the lead game designer or the creative director);

Ability to deal with the pressure of working on a AAA title and a multi-year production cycle.

Technical Skills

Ability to use (or learn to use) a level editor;

Knowledge of (or desire to learn about) scripting.

Interpersonal Skills

Good sense of responsibility: to be able to own up to one’s mistakes and do what’s needed to repair them;

Professional: to carefully follow and be up-to-date about one’s areas of responsibilities;

Structured: to write in a way that highlights important information while helping retention on the part of the reader;

Punctual: to be on time for milestone deliveries and meetings;

Ability to speak in public in order to present one’s work;

Ability to work with other departments (programming, animation, art);

Enough maturity to receive and give out constructive criticism.

Motivations and Interests

Ambition to create a GOTY;

The desire to push quality and focus on details;

The passion to take responsibility for a part of the game and do what it takes to bring it to fruition.