Game Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Playground Games seeks a Game Designer for their Fable team. Responsibilities include using proprietary tools and visual scripting to implement features and content, maintaining high-quality designs, collaborating with a cross-discipline team, and meeting project expectations. The ideal candidate is technically proficient, passionate about game design, hands-on, and has a proven track record. Experience with visual scripting tools and a passion for problem-solving are essential. C++, C#, or similar text-based scripting experience is desired but not mandatory.
Must have:
  • Visual scripting experience
  • Collaboration skills
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • High-quality design implementation
  • Passion for game design
Good to have:
  • C++, C# scripting experience
Perks:
  • Relocation assistance
  • Hybrid work model

Job Details

Description

Playground Games is looking for a Game Designer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis.  

About us: 

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.   

About the role: 

As a Game Designer you will act as a champion of quality across the team, working with various disciplines to implement key systems and features, and using visual scripting and proprietary tools to build content in Fable. 

Our ideal candidate is a technically proficient Designer who is passionate about their craft, skilled in all aspects of Game Design, demonstrates a willingness to be hands on and has the track record to prove it.  

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.    

What you’ll do: 

  • Use tools and scripting within our custom, proprietary engine to implement features and content to the highest standard and deliver on the project’s vision. 
  • Implement and maintain high-quality feature and system designs. 
  • Work with a highly motivated, talented cross-discipline team to deliver content to expectations. 

What you’ll bring: 

  • Demonstrable experience using visual scripting tools 
  • Interest in collaborating with a team of diverse perspectives to derive great solutions 
  • Passion for problem identification and solving 
  • A flexible, highly motivated and friendly approach to your work 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
  • A genuine passion for video games 
  • Text-based scripting experience in C++, C# or similar is desired but not essential 

This is a fantastic opportunity to make world-class games with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios. 

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity.  We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.    

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members.  It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players.  We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.   

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com  

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About The Company

Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans. 


Today, Playground has two world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studio on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

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