Principal Game Designer
Foxnext
Playa Vista, CAThis was removed by the employer on 5/21/2018 4:05:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Principal Game Designer
FoxNext Games is looking for an experienced principal game designer to join our Marvel Strike Force team! The ideal candidate has experience designing major game systems and understands how gameplay and economy interact to create a compelling experience. Additionally, the candidate will be an avid player of RPG's, strategy, and action games across multiple platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Work across disciplines to craft and evangelize game systems, and guide associated content creation.
• Coordinate with analysts to understand the impact of game design decisions on key performance indicators, and use that information to guide the direction of new systems.
• Maintain a deep understanding of game modes, economic systems, and upcoming features.
• Maintain a deep understanding of a wide variety of player motivations based on player type and game factors.
• Mentor junior design team members.
Skills:
• Strong UI and control design skills, and understanding of resource systems.
• Strong sensitivity to gameplay and social game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game.
• Strong analytical and formal thinking, able to break problems down in their key variables and identify the relations between them.
Requirements:
• Previous experience as a senior game designer for action, strategy, or RPG games.
• Experience with game engines and tools, such as Unity or Unreal.
• 5 years of experience shipping AAA console, PC, or mobile titles in design roles.
• Ability to direct, collaborate, and speak critically on game systems, story, art, and content development.
• A deep passion for strategy, action, and RPG games.
• A strong understanding of modern mobile game development.
• Experience using spreadsheet tools such as Excel and Google Docs.
Pluses:
• Previous experience leading a design team or large feature group.
• A passion for Marvel comics and movies.
• Experience with scripting, C#, object-oriented programming, and/or javascript.
• Shipped or supported live ops for 1 games targeted for mobile platforms or built on the Unity engine.
• Experience working with databases, Perforce source control, and .json files.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.