Game Designer

2 Months ago • 3 Years + • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

The Game Designer will be responsible for creating fun gameplay experiences for mobile games in Unity. This includes designing game mechanics, storylines, and collaborating with artists and engineers. The role involves brainstorming, iterating on ideas, creating design documents, prototyping gameplay, and ensuring high-quality releases through bug fixing and balancing. The designer will also contribute to character animation, game audio features, and project schedules.
Must have:
  • 3 years of game design experience focusing on end-game content.
  • Ability to think creatively and develop engaging gameplay experiences.
  • Strong understanding of analytics and project management.
  • Desire to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment.
  • Skilled with Unity game development technologies.
  • C# Knowledge
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Strong knowledge of Art and Design
  • Strong Knowledge of UX
  • Passion for crafting gameplay systems, mechanics and gamemodes.
Good to have:
  • A degree in game design or a related field.
  • Strong proven portfolio

Job Details

Viziverse is creating a whole new genre of camera-based casual mobile 3D video games. We're an exciting new startup founded by an experienced tech entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School.

Game Designers create fun for everyone, from hardcore competitors to casual weekend gamers. We are looking for a highly skilled Game Designer to help us create fun gameplay for our upcoming games in Unity. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating game mechanics, applying game design techniques, creating storylines that are optimized for mobile devices, working with Game Artists and Engineers, brainstorming for new ideas, iterate upon those ideas to meet our development needs. The candidate must be familiar with Unity and have a strong understanding of game design pipelines.

What You'll Do:
 

  • Design, develop, and implement engaging end-game activities, challenges, and experiences that offer long-lasting entertainment, ensuring they are challenging, rewarding, and not overly frustrating. This includes conceptualizing a wide range of activities, events, and challenges to provide diverse gameplay experiences.

  • Work collaboratively with designers, engineers, and other creatives to innovate on compelling gameplay systems. This involves aligning with multiple disciplines to effectively communicate and drive the gameplay vision from concept to ship quality, ensuring alignment with the company and product strategy.

  • Participate in all creative aspects of the game that impact the end-user, including gameplay, interface, animation, sound, and art style. This includes owning the design vision of your content and driving iteration based on feedback from the team, leadership, and broader team contributions.

  • Create and maintain detailed design documents and scripting for activities, ensuring clear communication with cross-functional teams. This also includes producing prototypes of gameplay ideas and features.

  • Analyze, design, and develop new games while maintaining and enhancing existing ones. This encompasses animating characters and objects in code, contributing to the design and audio features of the game, and participating in the development of project schedules and milestones.

  • Ensure high-quality releases through rigorous bug fixing, balancing, and enhancing the overall fun gameplay experience. This includes testing and debugging work for accuracy and functionality before submission to QA, evaluating code for efficiency, fixing bugs, and future-proofing products.

  • "Polish" the game by continually refining gameplay elements and ensuring the final product meets the highest quality standards.

Must-Haves:

  • 3 years of professional experience in game design, with a strong focus on end-game content design and activities.
  • Proven track record to think creatively and develop unique, engaging, and fun gameplay experiences.
  • Strong understanding of analytics, project management, video game development, and problem-solving skills
  • Desire to contribute to a positive, creatively driven, highly collaborative, and inclusive work environment.
  • Skilled with Unity game development technologies
  • C# Knowledge
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Strong knowledge of Art and Design
  • Strong Knowledge of UX
  • Passion for crafting gameplay systems, mechanics and gamemodes.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A degree in game design, or a related field.
  • Strong proven portfolio

When:

  • Full-time
  • Open to part-time consulting (if desired by candidate)

Why join the Viziverse team?

  • Make a novel platform that is the first to implement live action gaming
  • Work with an accomplished startup founder to directly impact the industry
  • Join startup and get an early seat on a rocket ship to something potentially huge!

Ready?

If working on something fun, entrepreneurial, innovative, and industry-changing sounds appealing to you, then let’s talk. (And we’ll of course keep it confidential.) 

(Keywords: 3D Gaming, Game Designer, Game Design, Extended Reality, XR, Virtual Reality, VR, Augmented Reality, AR, Mixed Reality, MR, Human Computer Interaction, HCI)

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