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Game Designer - Balance
1 year ago
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
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Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
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What We Do
Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.
What You'll Do
Epic Games is looking for Balance Designers to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will tune and balance Fortnite items, limited time modes, and other gameplay systems. Balance Designers at Epic identify live issues and create hotfixes for game content in real time as well as author and maintain design documents. You will work in a hyper-collaborative environment, rapidly iterating on designs in order to find the best possible outcome in the least amount of time.
In This Role You Will
- Use data to inform design decisions and measure outcomes. Identify practical solutions to problems and help drive empathetic design to improve player experience.
- Adjust live balance in real time. Adjusting numbers, loot, and all knobs available to come up with the optimal solutions. Helping preemptively set features to be balanced/adjusted post launch.
- Work closely with Design to iterate and provide feedback and polish to the design process.
What We're Looking For
- First and foremost we are looking for an individual who is passionate about multiplayer balance and game health in Fortnite. No prior game development experience is required.
- Ability to react to changing project needs and directions extremely quickly.
- It's a plus if you have shipped a competitive multiplayer game OR participated in competitive tournaments at the highest levels of play.
- It's a plus if you have prior systems design knowledge (including data tables, tuning & balance).
- It's a plus if you have any experience with analytics tools/languages/processes (SQL, tableau, qubole, r, grafana, etc)
- It's a plus if you have some prior visual scripting experience.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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