Studio: Reflector
Job Opening: Level Designer
Location: Montreal, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Share and understand the creative direction and the game design’s documentation.
- Understand how the global experience of the game is impacted by their level.
- Work on prototypes to validate the game’s concepts and extract rules from them.
- Responsible, in collaboration with the art and the narrative teams, for the conception of the layout of the game’s level as well as the mission it must support.
- Build the block mesh version of the layout conceived and do the follow-up with the art team.
- Integrate all game elements required, based on the targeted difficulty, to support the game’s intention, and do the follow-up regularly with the Arts, Narratives, and Game Design teams.
- In charge of the required scripting in the game’s mission/level.
- Ensure the intention feasibility in collaboration with the Technical Directors and the Programmers.
- Present your intentions and the progress of your work to Directors.
- Keep up-to-date with the appropriate documentation to ease collaborative works with other departments.
- Participate in the game’s quality by fixing issues found by the Quality Assurance team.
- Collaborate with the Programmers team to track and eliminate the most critical issues.
- Iterate work, based on your own feedback, the team’s feedback, or the player’s feedback, in order to achieve the highest possible quality.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience as a Level Designer.
- Worked through all production stages of a minimum of one (1) video game, preferably a ‘AAA’ console video game.
- Good 3D layout creation skills and technical constraints.
- Good scripting ability (Blueprint, LUA, …).
- Good knowledge of Rational Level Design theory is essential (Player’s progression, pacing, difficulty, variety, …).
- Interest in narrative and realization is a plus.
- Experience with the Unreal game engine is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills in English and French (both oral and written).
- Good general knowledge of video games.
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