Senior Systems Designer
Orange County, CA
Our client is seeking Senior Systems Designer candidates with strong design sense and a demonstrated ability on the creation, implementation, and tuning of compelling game systems for an upcoming MMO
Key Responsibilities:
- Participates in planning the design of all game systems, authoring and maintaining design documents, gathering reference and working with team leads to establish priorities for systems development.
- Works with the Lead Creative Designer to understand and provide feedback on the creative vision for all features and systems in the game.
- Ensures that all system designs are maintained and updated on a regular basis to reflect ongoing changes.
- Reviews and provides feedback on systems and balance game.
Job Qualifications:
- Experience shipping games in a system design capacity.
- Familiarity fantasy and science fiction literature, pen and paper role-playing, CRPGs and MMOs is a must.
- Passion for and broad knowledge of various genres and games and an ability to critically analyze them.
- Ability to create innovative game systems and mechanics.
- Ability to understand and balance complex game systems.
- Ability to clearly and concisely define game areas and feature sets.
- Willingness to take the initiative to learn new skills, and contribute wherever needed in the product development process
- Ability to work closely with artists and other designers and be responsive to feedback
- Excellent math skills
- 3 years professional design experience
Preferred:
- Previous experience doing system design work for computer or paper RPGs
- Has a passion for playing / creating quality video games particularly MMO and RPGs
- At least 1 shipped AAA title
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