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Associate Game Designer
3 years ago
Looking for an innovative, creative, passionate, and fun company in OC? Then, let us introduce ourselves. We are MobilityWare and we make fun for a living! Our mobile games have been rocking the app store since its inception and we regularly show up in top lists for most popular games. We recently reached over 350 million downloads across our portfolio of games!
We have been voted 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Best Places to Work in Orange County by the Orange County Business Journal and OC Register! Headquartered in Irvine, CA., our flagship game, Solitaire, was released on the day the App Store opened in 2008. Other titles include Blackjack, FreeCell, Jigsaw Puzzle and Spider Solitaire, to name a few. Our mission is to bring JOY to others one game at a time.
Position Summary
As an Associate Game Designer, reporting to the Game Designer, you will be responsible for providing feature ideas for a suite of card games. You’ll use your documentation knowledge to provide the team with clear and concise Game Design Documents. You will work with interdisciplinary teams to help create in-game content and experience for our players. You’ll grow into a strong advocate for players, understanding and creating engaging content that best suits their needs.
Responsibilities
- Produce high quality Game Design Documents for Engineers, Artists, and QA
- Be a relentless advocate for the players and share player empathy
- Foster a creative and collaborative environment
- Learn new design trends within the casual games market
- Work with other designers to create new games and features
- Openly share ideas for critique and iterate without attachment
- Learn to analyze and make decisions based on data
Qualifications
- Basic understanding of fundamental principles of game design
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with game design in a professional, indie, or academic environment
- Broad knowledge of, or passion for, the casual mobile games market
- Knowledge working with Excel, Confluence, and Jira
Why you should work for us:
- Awesome Perks: free lunch, free snacks, free drink, free Annual Company trip
- Casual workplace - yes, flip flops and shorts are pretty much an everyday thing
- Growth, growth, growth - we are growing and we would love for you to join us on the ride
- We also want to take care of our team so we've got profit sharing incentives, medical, dental (100% paid), vision (100% paid), Unlimited PTO/Vacation, life insurance (100% paid), and 401K
- Awesome office smack dab in the middle of OC and 2 minutes off the 5 freeway
- Amazing talent: We've got some heavy hitters from the industry who embody both brilliance AND humility
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