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What’s It All About

You can’t get enough of playing and designing multiplayer, competitive shooters. You are almost always at the top of the ranks and have a deep understanding of what makes for fun and competitive gameplay. But you also are able to identify with the needs of casual gamers, recognizing the activities, hooks and helpful UI and feedback elements that will draw more players into your game.

A Typical Day

After enjoying a nice cup of coffee, you jump into a meeting with your feature team: a cross-disciplinary group of artists, designers and programmers that is responsible for weapons design. You realize that a good weapon has to function, feel, look and sound great, so you and the team brainstorm the look and feel of a new weapon you’ve been planning with the designers before dividing up the tasks. You agree to meet back in a day or two to see how things are coming along. Meanwhile, you jump into your second feature team in charge of a particular map for the game. You describe the new weapon that you’ve been planning with the other team, and you quickly sketch out a few ways that it could be useful in the new map. The whole team gets excited about the possibilities, and working together with the weapons team, sets a goal to get weapon and map into next week’s playtest.

Who You Work With the Most

You work closely with the Lead Designer and Class Lead to help set up overall goals for the gameplay and co-ordinate with the team to rally around a common vision. On your feature teams, you are often working with artists and programmers, and together directly implementing the feature your team is responsible for.

What You’ve Done Before

• Experience designing combat systems, levels or other key design elements for multiplayer online shooters.
• Excellent Communication and Organizational skills
• Passion for playing online shooters at a competitive level
• Great people skills, able to work in multi-disciplinary, team oriented environments.
• A sense of fun.