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Game Designer

Do you find delight in playing and making games such as Slime Rancher, Animal Crossing, Pikmin and Tamagotchi? Do you love iterating to discover the fun? Do you enjoy collaborating with different disciplines in a tight-knit team environment? If yes, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other disciplines to prove ideas through prototyping
• Graybox levels and/or gameplay mechanics in Unreal Engine 5
• Contribute to the overall game design though creating, iterating, balancing and polishing gameplay.
• Establish and document processes, design metrics and systems
• Gather feedback from other teammates and take actionable steps to improve the player experience based on that feedback
• Give concise and valuable feedback to others
• Always keep the player in mind and design around the players' experience

Requirements:

• Have an in-depth knowledge of Unreal Engine 4
• Ability to communicate ideas and design goals clearly to others
• Must have excellent documentation skills
• Being comfortable with iterative designing (not all your ideas will work all the time)
• Experience with game scripting (blueprints)
• An excellent understanding of current game trends
• Shipped at least one title in Unreal Engine on a major platform

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working in Unreal Engine 5
• Experience using Jira, Confluence and Miro
• Shipped one AAA Console game as a Game Designer

Why Zapper Games?

W e want you to enjoy cr afting amazing player experiences and have fun time s creating games you can be proud of . We also know that making games is hard work and that’s why we offer a generous benefits package to make sure our team members are properly taken care of. Here’s what you can expect from us.

• Top-tier health, dental and vision insurance (No Premiums!)

• Four weeks paid vacation.

• P aid time off the week between Christmas and New Year ’ s Day .

• Paid federal holidays

• 10 sick days

• 401k with matching

Zapper games is part of the Amplifier Game Investment group which is part of the Embracer Group. This group brings players some of the best games on the market and we are beyond excited to have their support.