Game Designer
Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a talented Game Designer to join our motivated team working on new projects within the Total War universe in Sofia, Bulgaria. You will be part of a world-class development team, contributing insights that shape projects and influence player experiences. Your role will involve developing and championing game features to create immersive and engaging gameplay, applying expertise to design game systems and content. Strong game design intuition, understanding of gameplay aesthetics, and iteration skills are essential. You will take ownership of multiple features, ensuring high quality through research, documentation, creation, implementation, and balancing. Collaboration with the design team and other disciplines is key for developing features from concept to release. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining fun, balanced features, and communicating progress and solutions proactively.
Must have:
- Games industry knowledge and experience
- Analyze gameplay features and recommend improvements
- Experience using Excel for balancing
- Excellent English communication skills
- Play a variety of video games and understand mechanics
- Open to feedback and integrate it into work
Good to have:
- Shipped titles or personal projects
- Deep understanding of Total War games
- Deep understanding of Strategy game genres
- Modding experience
- Experience scripting in LUA
- Knowledge of history
- Experience using metrics to improve design
- Great attention to detail and strong visual sense
Perks:
- Additional medical and dental health insurance
- Life insurance
- Free health care screening
- Additional holiday allowance
- Full studio closure over Christmas and New Year
- Annual discretionary studio bonus
- Career development pathways and training support
- Public transportation card
- Monthly food vouchers
- Hybrid working
- Wellbeing support with employee assistance program
- Free games and merchandise
- Access to extensive games library
- Free breakfast
- Options for additional health, wellness, and sports services
- Office massages
- Studio parties for family
5 skills required
Job Details
Description
We are looking for a Game Designer to join our talented and motivated professionals working on exciting new projects in the Total War universe at our studio in Sofia, Bulgaria.
You'll become part of a world-class development team working on a title in the award-winning Total War series. And you will be able to offer insights that drive the way our projects are shaped and directly influence our players’ gaming experience.
You will develop and champion game features that provide immersive and engaging gameplay experiences, applying your expertise to designing both game systems and the content that leverages these systems to the greatest effect.
Beyond conceptual and technical skills, you must have a strong game design intuition, the capacity to understand and iterate upon gameplay aesthetics and “feel”.
Please note that a cover letter is required for this position and applications without such will not be considered.
Key Responsibilities
As a Game Designer, you will take full ownership and responsibility for multiple features and ensure they are delivered to the highest quality. This is to include researching, documenting, creating, implementation, balancing and more.
You will collaborate with the design team to create detailed feature designs and will work closely alongside developers from other disciplines in order to ensure that the features you are responsible for are developed to the highest standard, from initial concept to final release.
Responsible for creating and maintaining fun and balanced features, you will also clearly communicate regular updates to the relevant discipline teams – especially where your work directly impacts them - and must be proactive in communicating progress and solving problems.
Responsible for creating and maintaining fun and balanced features, you will also clearly communicate regular updates to the relevant discipline teams – especially where your work directly impacts them - and must be proactive in communicating progress and solving problems.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience
Essential
- Some Games industry knowledge and experience - understanding the process of developing and delivering a game
- Demonstrable ability to analyze gameplay features, identify strengths and weaknesses, and to recommend improvements
- Experience using Excel and ability to balance large sets of numbers, for unit balance, progression systems etc.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; can communicate clearly and concisely in English and Bulgarian
- Wide-ranging experience playing a variety of video games, interested in why things work
- Ability to listen and be open to feedback and integrating that into your work
Desirable
- Shipped titles or personal projects, board game designs etc.
- Deep understanding of Total War games
- Deep understanding of games in the Strategy genres (Grand, RTS, 4X etc.)
- Modding experience
- Experience scripting in LUA
- Knowledge of and interest in history
- Experience in using metrics to improve design
- Great attention for detail and strong visual sense
About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.
We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:
- Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life insurance, and free health care screening
- Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
- Annual discretionary studio bonus
- Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
- Public transportation card
- Monthly food vouchers
- Hybrid working
- Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
- Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
- Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
- Options for subscribing to additional health, wellness and sports services
- Office massages
- Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases
- Our studio sites have disabled access.
- We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.
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