Full time - Helsinki or Berlin
Would you like to make your mark on a slick, modern Shooter? We have an opening for a Gameplay Designer to join an exciting mobile shooter project currently in development.
As a Gameplay Designer on a cutting edge mobile shooter you’ll devise the actions, abilities and mechanics of the combat gameplay, from camera and controls to AI behaviours and create a suite of opportunities for our level and meta designs to build upon.
We offer the opportunity to join a rapidly growing international team of passionate and talented game makers - just like you. We’re a young company and as an early employee you will contribute to the look of our first Savage game and Savage culture as a whole.
Responsibilities
- Create a compelling experience for character combat that includes player input, player character movement, in and out of combat behaviours, cover movement and combat behaviour and player feedback
- Add gameplay opportunities with character attributes and abilities that enhance the base gameplay experience
- Devise the behaviours that our AI will use to provide challenging and diverse gameplay moments for players to master
- Define the characteristics of our game weapons and ranged combat encounters
- Creating design documentation and content requirements as a method of sharing all the essential information and required support with the rest of the team
- Working with multiple disciplines, ensuring the correct people are involved in agreeing and building what design requests
Requirements
- Proven experience shipping shooters / cover shooters and delivering the combat design for those titles
- Understands applicable design for mobile platforms and the constraints therein
- Player centric design approach, actively seeking validation and data from players to make a game for the target audience
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and align design vision with internal partners and the target audience
- Ability to collaborate with others and also work independently as needed
- A passionate gamer
The ideal candidate will also have:
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 having shipped one 3rd Person shooter using UE4
- Experience with user design tools
- Experience running playtests for game feedback