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Combat Designer [contract]

InXile Entertainment
remote California
1 year ago
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inXile entertainment is searching the globe for our next hyper-creative Combat Designer to work on our unannounced, next-gen project. You will collaborate and take direction from the Lead Combat Designer and Game Director to work with a multi-discipline team, designing and implementing exhilarating combat experiences.

Do you sit and watch the patterns of enemies in every game you play? Do you have the knowledge and design experience to lead a group of multi-disciplined developers to create best in class gameplay experiences? If so, then inXile has an amazing opportunity for you. This position requires a driven, pro-active person with excellent communication and creative problem-solving skills. You will be part of one of the most experienced, talented game teams ever assembled! If you are up for the challenge, our team would love to meet you.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Design Leads to design and implement the vision for combat
  • Design and implement enemy characters, including boss encounters, with unique behaviors
  • Design, implement, tune, and maintain combat abilities
  • Work closely with animation to implement, tune, and adjust timing of enemy moves/abilities
  • Collaborate with animation, art, audio, and visual effects to ensure enemy behaviors are readable to players
  • Work with the Combat Player team to make enemies take advantage of status effects, resistances, damage interactions, and unique enemy reaction states
  • Selflessly design experiences with accessibility in mind
  • Be an advocate for the player

Required Skills

  • Proficient with Unreal Blueprint and/or similar scripting environments
  • Proficient with Unreal behavior trees and/or similar experience
  • Knowledge of Unreal animation graphs and/or similar experience
  • Understand the moment-to-moment gameplay loops of first-person shooters and RPGs and what makes those genres fun
  • Understanding of basic animation principals and animation timing
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Motivated self-starter who asks for help when needed
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