Senior Game Designer – AAA Console / PC Games – South East UK ( Hybrid ) – Permanent

With a passion to deliver high-end cinematic games, our client is carving a unique and exciting path in the games industry.

The successful candidate will take on a key role within the design team and be part of both setting the quality bar and the hands-on creation of exciting action orientated moment to moment gameplay.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven ability with Unreal and experience in the various Unreal tools, including those for level building, creation of cinematic sequences and blueprints
• Demonstrate experience of Game Design at a senior level on more than one published game.
• Enjoy a collaborative approach to game making, showing how you worked together with the other disciplines/team members to realize the best possible game play experience
• The ability to balance and adjust game content based on feedback and direction
• An eye for quality, be able to set a quality bar that the game design team can aspire to
• A logical approach and solid problem-solving skills
• Quick to adapt to proprietary software, workflows, pipelines, and tools

BENEFICIAL:

• A great portfolio of game design and game play work that speaks to our key requirements
• Several years of design experience in teams, working on several published games
• A passion for making games driven by stories, dark stories…
• Experience creating compelling puzzles and challenges
• The desire and knowledge to push for quality in collaboration with your team

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Establish the quality bar across the game, in all areas of gameplay and environmental story telling
• Guiding, mentoring, and developing a team of designers
• Block out game play in white-box levels that define compelling gameplay spaces and locations to investigate and explore and then bring them to final quality
• Translate prototypes into game ready logic and iterate them to quality
• Script cinematic sequences, integrate animation data, instantiate cameras and other game elements and interactions

BENEFITS:

• Challenging and rewarding projects as standard
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension
• 6 x life assurance
• Social events – including large summer party

And many more!

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