Studio: Ludeon Studios
Job Opening: Senior Game Design
Location: Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Use a variety of tools, including spreadsheets, bug trackers, task queues, and messaging apps to organize designers, developers, artists, audio experts, and testers, and keep a project on track.
- Efficiently communicate the state of the project to other stakeholders. Create an understanding of opportunities, risks, needs, and problems.
- Understand the high-level goals of game design and orchestrate a game development process to satisfy those goals.
- Help hire new designers, developers, artists, and so on.
- Help designers, developers, artists, and others grow by giving useful feedback.
- Write game system specifications for implementation by developers.
- Work with structured data formats like XML to implement and tune gameplay data like weapons, player tools, constructibles, animals, and so on.
- Use analytical tools including spreadsheets, Monte Carlo simulation, debug tools, tester requests, and others to analyze game designs.
- Review implemented features and specify improvements, cuts, and feature replacements.
- Prioritize tasks to find the most valuable work.
- Organize the project’s polish phase before release. Ensure that the details are handled, everything is high-quality, and nothing slips through the cracks.
- Engage with the community to understand player desires. Adapt designs to service them while also retaining your own design intent.
Qualifications & Skills:
- You can read and write C# code enough to understand implementation details and talk to developers about them.
- You’re skilled enough with image editing to make useful UI mockups.
- You’re a good enough writer to write player-facing texts like quest descriptions, object descriptions, tutorials, and so on.
- You can create pretty good art, or at least understand the elements of an aesthetically pleasing image.
- You can use data to implement visual effects like explosions, interaction particle effects, and so on.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, send your CV to apply@ludeon.com