Senior Game Designer

Requisition Number: 175825

Position Title: Sr Game Designer

External Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Game Designer to help build a Single-Player FPS in the Apex Universe. Our ideal candidate is well-versed in game design with an interest in AI and Combat Design. They should have strong technical and scripting abilities and an interest in getting involved early in a project and help drive it to success.

Why Respawn?

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they’ll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected.

This guiding principle is reflected in Respawn’s day-to-day development ethos of trust, autonomy, and freedom to experiment in “finding the fun” to make extraordinary and unforgettable experiences for our players. You can learn more about our studio and values at respawn.com/studio.

Our new single-player title is a designer’s dream playground with a freedom to innovate made possible by the unique universe it inhabits. Our critically acclaimed, multi-platform games have always established a “fun comes first” sensibility in a design process that allows creativity and new ideas to shine.

What You’ll Do…

• Have a direct hand in shaping a new game from the ground up. The project is in its early stages and you will take ownership of substantial ideas and features from blue-sky conceptualization to shipped game.
• Design and implement gameplay systems, AI designs, player abilities, mechanics, and other components.
• Realize these features utilizing your technical, scripting, and creative skills across multiple development tools.
• Validate your gameplay hypotheses through rapid prototyping and team feedback.
• Work with other departments to agree on vision and acquire assets for a cohesive experience.
• Support and grow your teammates through knowledge-sharing, debugging assistance, training, and technical documentation where necessary.
• Develop and advocate best practices to the content team and create long-term plans for content and system implementations.

Ideally, you will have...

• 5+ years professional experience as a Game Designer.
• Experience with AI and Combat Design
• Fluency in one or more text-based scripting or programming languages.
• Strong communication skills, ability to self-schedule and drive features with support from design and code leadership.
• Experience in rapid prototyping and iterative design.
• Ability to self-schedule and drive features with support from design and code leadership.

 

At Respawn we cater to individual strengths, and we are always looking for raw talent, regardless of specialization or breadth of expertise. Designers with broader interests in overall mission design, enemy and friendly design, combat, cinematics/narrative and other parts of the game are still strongly encouraged to apply.

In addition to opportunities for creative impact and professional growth which come with being a member of our team, working at Respawn has many other perks and benefits! Learn more at respawn.com/perks.

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Community / Marketing Title: Senior Game Designer

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: 21

Can this position be remote?: 0

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.