Level Designer - Specialmove

Join the

Network now...

Recent game news
Find industry game jobs
Create an Edge blog
Game industry network

JOB

March 17, 2009

Level Designer - Specialmove

Germany

JOB TITLE: Level Designer

LOCATION: Frankfurt

SALARY: Excellent package – Details on request

BENEFITS: TBC

REF NO: SM/LJ/96/1066

TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE PLEASE CONTACT andy@specialmove.com OR CALL +44 (0)141 585 6491

YOUR DETAILS REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL NOT BE SUBMITTED TO OUR CLIENT WITHOUT YOUR AGREEMENT

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Founded in 1999, our Client is a hugely successful development company responsible for several critically acclaimed games. With an English speaking Head Office in Germany, they also have a number of additional development studios throughout Europe.

Their in-house development team is a truly international one with game professionals from many different countries. They all have the same goal in mind; making great games with intuitive user interfaces, innovative exciting gameplay, and revolutionary atmospheric visuals. To achieve this they have developed a highly advanced in-house 3D Engine, to surpass both today's and tomorrow's expectations for blockbuster games. This is a tremendous opportunity to get involved with one of the worlds leading development and game technology companies

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Work with lead designer on level design and game play ideas

· Work on game concepts, gameplay mechanics, entity mechanics, and enemy design

· Use the internal level editor tool to implement designs, layout levels, entity creation, gameplay lightning, script events and manipulate AI behaviors

· Assist in design documentation and in-game dialogue writing

· Coordinate with other studio groups including art and production to achieve project objectives.

· Assist in design documentation and in-game dialogue writing

· Provides guidance and assistance where required, and is willing to accept guidance and assistance when required.

· Shows a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games

· Contributes innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development

· Actively participate in team working on project by making recommendations on how to improve product quality as well as group productivity.

· Provide input to department project status meetings.

· Report to: Lead Level Designer

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Essential

· Experienced and working knowledge of design tools and techniques, systemic designs.

· Expert in systemic, sensory based AI Systems in Action Games.

· Expert in advanced challenge designs including advanced physics, sound and graphics technologies.

· Expert in emergent gameplay design, sandbox designs and simulation designs.

· Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills are must.

· Must be passionate, a motivator, an inspirer.

· Works well under pressure and is capable of multi-task tracking.

· Good level of spoken and written English

· Willing to relocate to Germany

· Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon

· Willing to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks.

· Complete all tasks in a timely manner and to a consistent high quality standard.

· Remains focused, motivated and effective on all tasks through completion.

· Good communication and writing skills and create documentation where required.

· Demonstrates a desire to learn and grow professionally.

TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE PLEASE CONTACT john@specialmove.com OR CALL +44 (0)141 585 6491

YOUR DETAILS REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL NOT BE SUBMITTED TO OUR CLIENT WITHOUT YOUR AGREEMENT

Apply for this job