Senior Combat Designer – AAA Games – UK – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: AAA Games

OPM’s client is currently seeking an experienced and talented Senior Combat Designer to join their passionate team for development their upcoming title based on a world-famous IP.

The successful candidate will be responsible for creating a high quality, exciting, and accessible combat system that will provide players with countless hours of enjoyment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design & implement the game’s melee + ranged combat system, in collaboration with your Lead Designer, Head of Game and other disciplines such as code, art, animation, sound and visual effects
• Create an exciting and tactically interesting range of combat abilities for the game’s roster of characters
• Design interesting and fun to fight against enemy types and enemy behaviours
• Design enemy AI group behaviours to deliver exciting but manageable encounters
• Make sure the combat design delivers on the vision of the game and is accessible to the target audiences
• Continuously iterate on the combat design, balancing and implementation, taking on board feedback from other designers, other disciplines, management, external stakeholders, and user testing; ensuring the combat reaches the highest levels of quality and fun

REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven background in developing real-time melee & ranged combat systems for shipped console or PC titles
• Experience designing & producing high quality, accessible combat systems, with a focus on melee combat
• Excellent understanding of what makes melee and ranged combat feel really satisfying and an ability to create compelling systems that exploit this knowledge
• Outstanding rapid prototyping skills
• Cooperative approach with great communication skills, able to clearly communicate the rationale behind design decisions
• Background in online combat design & understanding of networked considerations within combat systems an advantage
• Unreal Engine 4 experience an advantage

BENEFITS:

• Paid time off to volunteer for eligible employees
• Access to well-being tools and resources
• In-house learning and development resources

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 415!