80 Level Job Digest: This Week's Featured Creative Roles
Check out this week's 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at Playground Games, Insomniac Games, Mob Entertainment, Respawn, and Naughty Dog.
Game Designer at Playground Games
Playground Games is looking for a Game Designer to join its Fable team on a permanent basis, based in the United Kingdom. Tools and scripting inside the studio's custom, proprietary engine are what you'll use to implement features and content to the highest standard and deliver on the project's vision. Implementing and maintaining high-quality feature and system designs is part of the day-to-day, and you'll work with a highly motivated, talented cross-discipline team to deliver content to expectations.
Requirements:
- Industry experience in game design positions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ability to design game systems and mechanics, and to align other disciplines around design intent.
- Passion for problem identification and solving.
- Demonstrable experience using scripting tools or similar.
- Interest in collaborating within a team of diverse perspectives.
- A flexible, highly motivated, and friendly approach to your work.
- A genuine passion for video games.
- Text-based scripting ability in C++, C#, or similar is desired but not essential.
Senior Gameplay Animator at Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games is looking for a new Senior Gameplay Animator responsible for creating gameplay animation at the highest quality level set by Lead Animators and Animation Directors. Developing high-quality animations for gameplay characters, in line with artistic direction and technical standards, is the core of the role.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop high-quality animations for gameplay characters, ensuring alignment with artistic direction and technical standards.
- Collaborate with Designers and Programmers to implement animations in the engine using expert skills in Maya and proprietary engine tools.
- Independently troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise.
- Ability to utilize motion capture data and hand key animation to create believable characters.
- Gameplay responsibilities can include hero traversal, combat, boss, gameplay camera cinematography, mission and open world animations at the highest level using advanced skills in game engine tools.
- Work with the Animation team to guarantee cohesive execution of the established animation direction across the game, providing constructive feedback as necessary.
- Communicate effectively with other disciplines, including Designers, Programmers, Writers, Project Managers, Art, Audio, Character and Rigging teams, to resolve issues and achieve project goals.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Contract Technical Cinematic Designer at Mob Entertainment
Mob Entertainment is seeking a highly skilled Technical Cinematic Designer to join the team and help bring its narrative-driven experiences to life. Designing, implementing, and polishing real-time cinematics using Unreal Sequencer – camera work and cinematic transitions included – is the heart of the job.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in cinematic or narrative design for games, preferably in AAA or high-quality indie projects.
- Expert proficiency with Unreal Engine and Level Sequences.
- Strong understanding of real-time narrative systems, including scripting, triggers, and state machines.
- Demonstrated ability to create visually compelling cinematic sequences in-engine.
- Familiarity with Blueprints and/or scripting for cinematic logic and tool creation.
- Excellent communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
- A strong portfolio or reel showcasing cinematic work in Unreal Engine.
Senior Game Designer at Respawn Entertainment
Apex Legends is looking for a Senior Game Designer who will help us create exciting and innovative new characters. You'll work on new Legends from early prototype through release. You have experience on a live service game in character design, and have strong enough technical and scripting abilities to work independently.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a game designer on a multiplayer game.
- Experience in rapid prototyping and iterative design.
- Understanding of game feel and polish.
- Solid technical understanding of scripting and 3D action game fundamentals.
- Strong track record in design and balance.
- Played and formed a lot of opinions about many live games.
- Strong opinions on how the team could do better, and a drive to accomplish them.
Game Designer, Level at Naughty Dog
For nearly 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of narrative, gameplay, and technology. Naughty Dog recently released The Last of Us Part II Remastered as well as a current-generation remake of The Last of Us Part I for the PS5. We're also proud to say that The Last of Us Part I is now available for the first time on PC.
What skills you will use:
- 3+ years of industry experience in Level Design for games.
- Experience blocking out environments for games using 3D software packages such as Maya, Unreal Editor, or otherwise, that exemplify understanding of level design fundamentals.
- Experience using a game editor such as Unreal Editor, and scripting/programming using a language such as C#, Lua, Python, or Visual Scripting.
- Excitement for learning and growing as a designer.
- Keen to develop new skills.
- Proficient and effective communication skills.
- Welcomes criticism and has experience collaborating as part of a team, innovating without losing sight of the gameplay vision.
- Understanding of the single-player gaming landscape.
- Maintains knowledge of the broader gaming landscape trends.
- Problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.
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