Studio: Digital Extremes
Job Opening: Junior Game Designer
Location: London, ON, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work to help deliver the creative vision for the game
- Fully understand the product goals and creative vision for the game
- Own individual areas of the game design to document and communicate them
- Build relationships on the development team to facilitate idea generation and feature implementation
- Be an expert on gaming trends and have your finger on the pulse of the audience
- Transition to a hands-on testing and tuning role late in the project to deliver the best possible game
Qualifications & Skills:
- 1+ years of game industry experience in a Designer-level capacity
- Shipped a minimum of 1 title in a gameplay designer capacity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Proven ability to document and communicate design ideas
- Excellent knowledge of the video game industry
- Be a driven individual who has a proven track record of delivering projects on time
- A background in art, design, or engineering is a plus
- Very comfortable working in Maya to block out levels to playable quality
- A portfolio that’s idiosyncratic enough to show us who you are and what you care about
- Familiarity with Lua or other scripting languages would be helpful
- The more titles you’ve shipped, the better
- 1+ years of experience in design or related roles would be great
- Sample Work a Bonus: Exhibiting your design and communication skills with examples of written or visual design documentation will help us assess candidates.
