Senior Level Designer

19 Hours ago • 2-8 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Level Designer at Vertigo Games, you will be instrumental in crafting immersive VR experiences. Your primary responsibility will be to create spatial designs that guide player attention and stage game and narrative events. You will model 3D meshes for environment blocking, design and implement gameplay and narrative events using visual scripting tools, and place game entities to balance level difficulty. Collaboration with art and feature design teams is crucial, involving rapid iteration, playtesting, and puzzle implementation. The role demands creativity, passion for design, knowledge of industry trends, and experience with Unreal Engine. This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of VR gaming, contributing to titles like Metro Awakening.
Must have:
  • 2 full development cycles of experience on major PC/Console titles
  • Independently implement level blueprints or scripting language
  • Experience with puzzle, platforming, and combat scenarios
  • Highly organized with good time management and planning skills
  • Knowledge of games industry trends and development practices
  • Experience in Agile development and cross-disciplinary teams
  • Strong knowledge of working with the Unreal Engine
Good to have:
  • Experience of designing for VR
  • Dialogue or creative writing experience
  • Game mechanics design experience
Perks:
  • Healthy work-life balance
  • Hybrid working model with three office days per week
  • 26 standard vacation days with an option to buy 5 more
  • Free commuting with public transport
  • Free pension plan
  • Healthy lunch in our canteen
  • Group activities and Thursday afternoon drinks
  • The latest VR hardware and titles which you can borrow and take home
  • Hardware, desk, chair, and energy costs contribution while working from home

Job Details

Your mission
We are Vertigo Games, developers and publishers of top-end VR titles like Metro Awakening, Arizona Sunshine, After the Fall and The 7th Guest. Our Amsterdam studio has started development of our next VR game, following Metro Awakening, and we are looking to recruit a Senior Level Designer who can aid us in our mission.

Are you looking for a studio that celebrates creativity and sets the bar in immersive entertainment? Then we should meet!


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Create spatial designs that consider movement through a space, guiding the player’s attention and staging game and narrative events.
  • Model simple 3D meshes for blocking out environments.
  • Design and implement the level’s game play and narrative events using blueprints or similar visual scripting tools.
  • Implement the placement of game entities e.g.: characters, enemies cover, pickups etc. and balances the level’s difficultly.
  • Collaborate closely with art throughout the level creation process from paper design, through block out and rapid iteration to polish.
  • Collect and analyze play test data and use it to validate the level design or improve the player experience.
  • Collaborate closely with feature design to plan out and implement puzzles into the level designs.
Your profile
  • At least 2 full development cycles of experience on a major PC/Console title in a level design role on an action-adventure title.
  • Can independently implement level blueprints (or other scripting language).
  • Experience with level design centered around puzzle, platforming and combat scenarios. 
  • Highly organized with good time management and planning skills.
  • Creatively minded and passionate about design as a discipline.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of games industry trends and contemporary development practices.
  • Experienced in Agile development and working in cross disciplinary teams.
  • Strong knowledge of working with the Unreal Engine.
Bonus points for
  • Experience of designing for VR.
  • Dialogue or creative writing experience.
  • Game mechanics design experience at feature level for at least 1 console/PC action-adventure title.
We offer
  • A company culture that values a healthy work-life balance.
  • A hybrid working model with three office days per week.
  • 26 standard vacation days with an option to buy 5 more.
  • Free commuting with public transport to and from the office.
  • Free pension plan.
  • A healthy lunch in our canteen.
  • Group activities and Thursday afternoon drinks.
  • The latest VR hardware and titles which you can borrow and take home.
  • Whilst working from home we provide all the relevant hardware, budget for a desk and chair and a contribution toward your energy costs.

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Vertigo is the mobile game development & publishing studio of midcore real-time social multiplayer games, located in Istanbul, Turkey. Our goal is to develop and self-publish social multiplayer games with the best gaming experience and high quality production values. We're focusing on making the best games with polished graphics and addictive game-play. We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, where creativity, agility, and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will develop your skills, drive your career forward and delight millions of players around the world. As a fast-growing team of game development enthusiasts, we create a challenging work environment open to anybody truly passionate about mobile games. jobs@vertigogames.co https://www.vertigogames.co

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