Systems Designer - Star Wars: The Old Republic

Requisition Number: 172135

Position Title: Game Designer II

External Description:

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story. Our teams inspire creativity using tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and work with thousands of developers across EA’s network of studios. We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling. If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

What's in it for you? Glad you asked!

What the Systems Designer will do at BioWare Austin:

• Report to department leads and develop and implement gameplay, economy, combat, and progression elements into exciting and fun game experiences.
• Create design documents based on high-level game vision and player metrics.
• Implement documentation into useable systems and features.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to ensure features maintain high quality in gameplay, art, sound, visual effects, and animation.
• Implement leadership and peer-based feedback, bug fixing, and polish.

Who You Are:

• 2 or more years of experience in systems design and game design
• Familiarity with Star Wars: The Old Republic gameplay, combat, and systems
• Familiarity with game economies and economy balance
• Familiarity with MMO and RPG itemization, reward systems, and combat systems
• Familiarity with the fantasy genre and role-playing games
• Proven ability to create and implement performant game systems
• Experience working with data and analytics
• Excellent documentation skills, particularly Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We love to celebrate our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, of course, free video games and more!

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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Days Open: 51

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.