Senior Designer

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Game Design

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Job Description

KingsIsle Entertainment seeks a Senior Designer to lead the design and balancing of systems for their upcoming life sim/adventure game, Ravenwood Academy. Responsibilities encompass conceptualizing and designing game systems, developing immersive content (narratives, characters, puzzles, etc.), collaborating with a cross-functional team, communicating designs effectively, and mentoring other designers. The ideal candidate will possess 5+ years of game design experience, familiarity with Unity, and strong communication and leadership skills. The role involves analyzing competitor products, researching subject matter, and contributing to a data-driven approach to enhancing user experience.
Must have:
  • 5+ years game design experience
  • Unity & plugin experience
  • Technical implementation proficiency
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Excellent communication & leadership
Good to have:
  • Life sim/dating sim genre familiarity
  • Mystery game experience
  • Strong narrative design experience
  • Life sim/cozy game design experience
  • Excel proficiency

Description

KingsIsle Entertainment, established in 2005, is a proven MMO hit-maker with 50+ million registered users across both our MMOs with vibrant and strong communities.  Our award-winning game Wizard101 is currently in its 16th year and Pirate101 is in its 12th.  We attribute our success to great people, and we recognize the value of every team member. We work hard and have fun, whether it’s with lunchtime gaming sessions or office outings to the movies. The working environment, friendly teammates, and support for growing careers all contribute to the long tenures many people enjoy at KingsIsle. 


Position Overview


In this role you will take point on designing and balancing systems for our upcoming life sim/adventure game, Ravenwood Academy. The ideal candidate will have a broad knowledge of the genre’s gameplay conventions, as well as experience creating and integrating game systems that seamlessly advance narrative goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the conceptualization and design of game systems from initial ideation to final implementation, ensuring a captivating gaming experience

• Develop compelling and immersive game content, including narratives, characters, puzzles, minigames, and impactful player choices

• Collaborate with a cross-discipline team, utilizing your prior experience in hands-on development to effectively communicate and solve problems with teammates, both technical and non-technical

• Clearly and persuasively communicate designs via documents, presentations, diagrams, and prototypes

• Be an active member of the Design team, brainstorming and writing designs, and providing feedback to other designers

• Support your teammates through knowledge-sharing and documentation

• Analyze design features of competitive products in order to make data-driven decisions that enhance overall user experience and engagement

• Research subject matter relating to the design objective in an effort to ensure the authenticity of the experience.

• Mentor other designers and lead by example.

Qualification

·        5+ years of game design experience on a shipped or live product

·        Experience working with Unity and Unity plugins

·        Comfortable and proficient with technical implementation

·        Enjoy creative problem-solving as part of a team

·        Excellent communication, documentation, teamwork, and leadership skills.

·        Strong work ethic, initiative, attention to detail, critical thinking skills and ability to anticipate problems

·        Comfortable with MS suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.), Google Docs, Visio, JIRA, online collaboration suites such as Confluence.

·        Candidate must be willing to take a short Excel apptitude test

Preferred Skills

·        Familiarity with the life simulation and dating simulation game genres, including an understanding of their core mechanics, themes, and audience appeal.

·        Knowledge of mystery games, especially those with life sim elements

·        Experience designing games with strong narrative focus

·        Experience designing life sim and/or ‘cozy’ games

·        Experience working with Excel

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About The Company

We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 50 Million registered players to date.

Founded in 2005, with operations in the Dallas area and Austin, KingsIsle is creating MMO entertainment offerings that are innovative, compelling, uncommon and of high quality. We have brought together a team of highly creative, energetic, accomplished and skilled professionals to develop these projects. The team consists of individuals with unique and in-depth experience in the development of video games, online environments, communications and commercial software.

KingsIsle is currently hiring at all levels and areas. Please check out our openings at https://kingsisle.catsone.com/careers/.

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