Systems & World Designer | New Games

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Job Summary

Job Description

Join King's New Games Studio as a Systems & World Designer to craft engaging content for an ambitious new mobile game. You will collaborate closely with the Creative Director and Design Leads to define and develop the game's meta systems, features, and content. This role involves developing the 3D world, characters, and content, upholding high design quality, documenting features, and supporting production. You will also champion best practices and stay current with industry trends, contributing to a tight-knit team passionate about casual games.
Must have:
  • Work with a key team to create a new casual mobile game at King
  • Collaborate with the Creative Director and Design Leads to define and develop the game's meta, features, and content
  • Develop the 3D world of our game, its characters and content, in collaboration with a crossfunctional team
  • Uphold high standards of design quality while balancing technical and performance constraints
  • Document features and systems, communicate progress, and incorporate feedback throughout development
  • Help define and champion best practices in game design across the project
  • Support production by breaking down tasks and contributing to scheduling
  • Track and communicate key design risks to the production team
  • Stay current with industry design techniques, workflows, and emerging technologies and games
  • Seek and provide feedback with the wider design discipline
  • Work collaboratively with humility and openness and a strong willingness to learn from your peers
  • Comfortable with Unity, scripting and node graphs (Light technical Design)
  • Experience fast grey boxing scenes and building design pre-visualizations or scripted story sequences
  • Experience in game and systems design, particularly in the mobile space
  • Ability to self-manage and stay motivated in a fast-paced environment
  • Understanding of free to play economies and meta game mechanics
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Good to have:
  • Understanding of storytelling, background in film, machinima or casual mobile narrative

Job Details

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Games Design & Production

Job Description:

Join our New Games Studio at King and help build our next big title!

If you're passionate about casual games and thrive on crafting engaging content, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We’re looking for a highly motivated Systems & World Designer to join a tight knit team working on an ambitious new mobile game. You’ll collaborate closely in the design and implementation of the game’s meta systems, features, and content.

Your Role Within the Kingdom

  • Work with a key team to create a new casual mobile game at King
  • Collaborate with the Creative Director and Design Leads to define and develop the game's meta, features, and content.
  • Develop the 3D world of our game, its characters and content, in collaboration with a crossfunctional team.
  • Uphold high standards of design quality while balancing technical and performance constraints.
  • Document features and systems, communicate progress, and incorporate feedback throughout development
  • Help define and champion best practices in game design across the project.
  • Support production by breaking down tasks and contributing to scheduling.
  • Track and communicate key design risks to the production team.
  • Stay current with industry design techniques, workflows, and emerging technologies and games.
  • Seek and provide feedback with the wider design discipline.
  • Work collaboratively with humility and openness and a strong willingness to learn from your peers.

Skills to Create Thrills

  • Comfortable with Unity, scripting and node graphs (Light technical Design)
  • Understanding of storytelling, background in film, machinima or casual mobile narrative is a big bonus.
  • Experience fast grey boxing scenes and building design pre-visualizations or scripted story sequences.
  • Experience in game and systems design, particularly in the mobile space.
  • Ability to self-manage and stay motivated in a fast-paced environment.
  • Understanding of free to play economies and meta game mechanics.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Game Experience

We’re looking for someone with a background in creating video games. Working in mobile game development is uniquely challenging, balancing creativity with tight technical constraints, and we want someone who embraces that challenge with energy and passion.

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Ready to join the Kingdom? You’ll find everything you need to apply and learn more about our culture, values, and benefits at jobs.king.com

Please submit all applications in English.

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About The Company

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players. Who we areKing is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company. Our passionMaking great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead.

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