Responsibilities
- Owning player character systems, mechanics and features. You are expected to continuously shepherd, develop, progress and iterate the gameplay topics that you are responsible for.
- Pitching, prototyping, implementing and polishing moment-to-moment and minute-to-minute gameplay mechanics
- Continuously collaborating with stakeholders to ensure feature direction and development is aligned and on-track, and dependencies consistently accounted for.
- Proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues or risks with your features before they impact the team.
- Continually ensuring the effective utilization of your features in the game through proactive evangelism and skillful communication with studio team members
- Thoughtfully analysing, validating and incorporating feedback from the team and external user testing
- Authoring and maintaining well-written, quality design documentation
Requirements
- Passion for owning and iterating on mechanics that meet the project vision and deliver the highest quality gameplay experience.
- Possesses a first-principles approach to design, with the ability to break down complex problems and prioritize requirements to achieve the desired gameplay feel within the project’s vision and scope.
- Self-sufficient and a proactive problem-solver who persistently and consistently resolves blockers and finds solutions independently - but not at the expense of collaboration
- Highly capable of communicating with and being mindful of the needs of and effects to other stakeholders (e.g. programming, animation, tech anim, AI) across multiple locations
- Strong understanding of balancing and tuning systems to achieve the target feel of a feature
- High level of technical expertise with strong provable scripting ability
- Shipped one or more AAA game titles in a Gameplay / 3Cs Design role or similar
Nice to Have
- Experience working with Unreal Engine
- Previous programming experience or familiarity with text-based scripting
- Strong documentation skills, proficiency with Wiki systems or Confluence is a plus
