Game Designer (Mobile Game)

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About the job

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IGG Canada is seeking a passionate Game Designer to create captivating mobile games. Responsibilities include designing gameplay systems, developing storylines, creating documentation, collaborating with UX/UI designers, and building levels. Ideal candidates have strong game design knowledge, level design experience, and technical understanding.

Join Our Team as a Game Designer at IGG Canada!

Are you passionate about creating mobile games that captivate millions of players worldwide? IGG Canada, a premium mobile game and video production studio located in Vancouver, offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals to join our team of superheroes.

IGG Canada is a premium mobile game and video production studio located at 5 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC.

With spectacular views of the downtown skyline, coastal mountains, and English Bay, our new studio is spacious, high-tech, and inspiring. IGG Canada is a division of IGG (I Got Games), a global interactive digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and operation of Mobile Games. Established in 2006, IGG was founded with the aim of becoming a leading multiplayer game publisher and developer. The company has rapidly expanded its global operations, through strategic partnerships with popular gaming platforms such as Facebook, iOS, Amazon, Google Play, Kongregate, and many others. IGG currently operates studios in China, Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and Canada (opened in 2013).If you're passionate about creating mobile games that reach millions of players around the world and are interested in becoming an integral member of our Canadian team of superheroes, we want to hear from you!

Position: Game Designer
Report to: Lead Game Designer
Department: EAI Game
Hiring Level: Experienced
Contract length & Type: Permanent
Location: 5 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1R6 (fully on-site)

Game Style: Mobile Game 3D

Hiring Processes:
1. Resume & Showreel/Portfolio review;

2. Test(s) if any;
3. Interview(s);
4. Offer;

Responsibilities:

Conceptualize, implement, and maintain gameplay systems that achieve a fulfilling flow state, addictive game loops, and a risk/reward balance;
Developing the storyline, character back-stories, and dialogue, through scripts and storyboards, including any relevant research;
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (such as design outlines, diagrams, and visual mockups) that details the triggers, interactions, and subsequent events of specific features or aspects of gameplay;
Work closely with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) Designers to optimize the player interface;
Building levels and environments;
Take a core role in building the framework, designing gameplay experiences, system solutions, overseeing production, testing, adjustments, optimizations, and creating related documentation.
Design and develop fundamental game features and unique gameplay elements.
Other tasks assigned by the team.

Requirements:

Possess a great understanding of game levels, level layouts, drawing maps, architecture, and other design areas related to game-level design.
An ability to break things down into systems
Ability to use data to get qualitative information to affect your designs
Have a good understanding of technical implementation within games, scripting languages, syntax, and other basic programming concepts
An understanding of marketing and market research to understand what your target audience wants and how to sell it to them
Basic to advanced drawing skills to communicate ideas visually
Basic understanding of 3D art, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, and other areas of 3D art creation, use, and conversion
Basic to advanced knowledge of user interface (UI/UX) in games
Legally eligible to work in Canada without any sponsorship from the employer.

What We Offer:

Comprehensive benefits after 3 months including health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
18 days of accrued paid Vacation + Sick Days.
Reimbursement for Active Living Benefits and Training/Development fees after 3 months.
Dependent/Child Benefits.
Paid Holiday Closure between Christmas & New Year's week.
Paid Statutory holidays.
RRSP matching after 1 year.
Monthly Commuter Allowance after 3 months.
Monthly team lunches.

Perks:

On-site car and bike parking.
Work hours: 10 am to 6 pm with 1 hour paid lunch.
On-Site Foosball table, table tennis, basketball game machine & pool table.
On-Site Gym.
Casual Dress Code.
Gifts for employee's children.
Snacks and drinks provided.
Festival Bonus/Gifts.
Referral Bonuses.

Join us in shaping the future of mobile gaming! Apply now and unleash your creativity with IGG Canada.

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About The Company

IGG

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Established in 2006, IGG is a renowned developer and publisher of mobile games and applications with a strong global presence and an international customer base of over 1.6 billion users with over 38 million MAU. Leveraging its success in client and browser PC online games, the Group changed its strategy to target the mobile games market in 2013. After years of effort, the Group’s mobile games are now available in 23 different languages worldwide, and the APP Business has also hit its stride after a decade of perseverance. Embracing our corporate spirit of “Innovators at Work, Gamers at Heart”, the Group is dedicated to creating high-quality and enjoyable games and applications that will stand the test of time.

IGG is headquartered in Singapore with local offices in the United States, China, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Türkiye, Italy and Spain, and users from more than 200 countries and regions worldwide. Over the years, IGG has aggressively pursued a strategy of globalisation in R&D and operations, establishing long-term relationships with over 100 business partners, including global platforms, advertising channels, and vendors such as Apple, Google, and Meta. The Group’s international presence and partnerships have enhanced its competitive advantage in the industry.

We are in constant search of talents for our overseas studios, check out careers website ( http://jobs.igg.com/) to get to know about our openings in:

IGG Singapore

IGG USA

IGG Canada

IGG Brazil

IGG China

IGG Japan

IGG Korea

IGG Thailand

IGG Indonesia

IGG Philippines

IGG Spain

IGG Türkiye