Lead Level Designer

Lead Level Designer

Unreal Engine open-world map making

You have an outstanding experience in video game-level design, and you are a productive team leader who excels at daily progress. You engage your team with tasks that all feed into our mutual production pipeline. Taking maps, 3D models, and level layouts and turning them into unique, and beautiful terrain experiences, designed for attraction and playability.

Together we are making a fresh, breathtaking, open-world hero shooter game experience made on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. You plan, understand, and apply texture and level streaming, Mip-Map distance bias, particle LODs, proper LOD use, and texture tiling by distance (as basic examples). You understand the use of Unreal Engine Material Instances.

You have a love and passion for working on level design and creating environments the player can experience in awe. You are experienced in working with Photoshop, Speedtree, audio, 3D, and Substance keeping highly organized assets properly stored and backed up. Skilled in Unreal Engine level design, sculpting terrain, following map layouts and designs, including the use of height and splat maps. You are a patient teacher of these skills to your team to help make each of them more productive.

Our design allows for wide-open 3D gameplay that is truly thrilling to experience. Like a rollercoaster ride off the rails, we put the players in charge, so that they control and create the ‘ride’. You will build out an expansive high-fantasy world where players win arenas to acquire more territory.

Responsibilities:

Plan out world, routes, puzzles, and level-dressing

Show regular weekly progress

Key Duties

Planning, and presenting open-world-level flow

Creating plans, paths, and blockages with various solutions

Developing our open-world gameplay as designed

Milestones:

3-playable maps for Pre-Alpha

4-additional playable maps for our Alpha stage

Underground-level development for each of our Pit/banishing system

Qualifications:

Experience with Subversion (version control software)

Experience with Unreal Engine-level development

Unreal Engine, World Creator and/or World Builder, and/or Gaia experience.

Key Traits:

Honest and accurate assumptions

Ability to block out and test designs

Ability to polish and produce triple-A content

About the Position above

You embody a love and passion for working in entertainment that is truly good for gamers. You work remotely. You track your own time. You will begin part-time. After a 3-month trial period, you may go full-time, continually paid up to 40-to-50 hours a week at any time as proven and required at the company’s discretion. IMU Studios Inc. is in a growth phase, seeking various roles for contract work.

About the Game

Our cinematic open-world hero shooter video game takes place on Nebulous Prime, a small planet in the beautiful Stellar Jewel Box nebula. Filled with playable stories, meaningful quests, arenas, and game challenges. Allowing players to freely explore and discover all of the beautiful details as revealed. TEAM IMU creates environments that players can experience in awe, all built on the visual power and performance of the Unreal Engine.

About the Company

IMU Studios creates refreshing experiences for gamers. Thrilling, fun adventures that shake the foundations of the industries we enter. We have assembled a team of video game underdogs, all hungry to be the next heroes. Together we are pushing everything to be more exciting!

IMU Studios was founded when game developer Robert Strutin’s market research revealed fresh opportunities in the video game industry, crossing market lines of gameplay and revenue models. Our home studio is nestled in the beautiful, inspiring mountains of British Columbia, Canada, with active Team Members contributing worldwide. Our expert team of game developers and artists are truly passionate about their craft and producing profound entertainment experiences. We create exhilarating video games that enrich your life and empower you as a player.

Tell us who you are, what you do, and why you would like to join.

Apply

Email: derickmungahu@imustudios.com