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Technical Game Designer
1 year ago
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Technical Game Designer
San Mateo, CA or Remote (USA or Canada)
Are you a game developer with an appetite for high quality, 3rd person, Action/Adventure games? Sony PlayStation Studios Creative Arts Development Team provides world-class content, development and services to PlayStation Studios. We offer a full-service production studio with an emphasis in art and animation, as well as previsualization, cinematics, character creation, motion capture, software development, and face/body scanning, tracking and solving.
Our game development team in partnership with PlayStation Studios Visual Arts (PSSVA), an award-winning, full-production studio that specializes in Animation, Motion Capture, Cinematics, Art and Scanning. This is the same extraordinary team known for its contributions to beloved franchises like Uncharted, Death Stranding, God of War, The Last of Us II, and more. We continue to partner with PlayStation Studio’s best minds at Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Santa Monica Studio, Sucker Punch Productions, Bend Studio, Japan Studio, Insomniac Games and more.
Responsibilities:
- Support the vision of the Sr. Design staff.
- Partner with the designers and artists to bring gameplay to life.
- Implement existing gameplay systems into a new framework.
- Gameplay scripting using text-based scripting tools.
- Improving existing level scripts for interaction and engagement.
- Ownership and maintenance on gameplay systems such as: Melee combat, ranged combat, gameplay cameras, player navigation, etc.
- General troubleshooting with technical aspects of the Design pipeline.
- Contribute to the design process of gameplay features.
- Prototyping and refining gameplay features.
Qualifications:
- B.S. in computer science, and 1-2+ year’s professional experience.
- Strong C++ programming ability.
- Thorough understanding of 3D math.
- Working experience with additional programming and scripting languages such as Python, LUA, C#, etc.
- Strong and effective communication skills.
- Self-motivated with an ability to take initiative.
- Strong problem-solving ability, and a keen eye for details.
- A passion for playing and developing outstanding games.
Desired qualifications:
- Previous experience shipping a 3rd person action game.
- Console programming experience
- Familiarity with Lisp programming language
- Maya experience
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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$40 — $59 USD
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