Studio: Darkpaw Games
Job Opening: Creative Director
Location: San Diego, California
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Provide visionary oversight and creative direction for an unannounced title within Darkpaw Games.
- Establish and refine the high-level core gameplay loops.
- Advise on and develop supplementary systems that reinforce gameplay loops that focus on core pillars of the game:
- Community and Teamwork – Working together and building social bonds to achieve things that you can’t do (or it’s very hard to do) on your own.
- Fairness – You perform certain gameplay actions, put the time in, “work” hard, and you get rewarded; your accomplishments and achievements are never taken away.
- Escape and Exploration – We build alternative worlds where players can take a break from real life or want to get a feeling of exploring something new with a sense of danger (high fantasy exploration).
- Maintain knowledge of the global game market and use it to influence and add value to our product offerings.
- Assist with the recruitment of key talent and grow and mentor the Design team.
- Lead creative teams to establish and meet key milestones with expected quality, budget, and time standards.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years of direct game development experience.
- Proven success from previously released titles.
- Relevant experience in achieving results via strong leadership.
- Ability to motivate teams and build consensus.
- Ability to design and elaborate on core gameplay loops and design systems that reinforce the loop from end-to-end.
- Effective and positive interpersonal skills.
- Proven problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience developing MMO games.
- Strong portfolio of work in current game engines UE4/5.
- Ability to assist with systems, level, and narrative design when the situation arises.
- Experience working on PC and console games.
- Experience developing procedurally generated content.
- Experience developing games on pre-existing IP.
- Previous experience with building a game from concept to release.
