Senior Combat Designer

Cloud Chamber - English; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development studio is seeking a Senior Combat Designer to innovate AI characters and combat gameplay for their next BioShock title. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with teams, pushing creative boundaries and ensuring high-quality game experiences. This role requires strong communication skills and a passion for game design, with an emphasis on creativity and collaboration. Join a team dedicated to making unique and engaging games that resonate with players worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in video game design.
• Shipped at least one AAA title as a designer responsible for encounter design.

Responsibilities

• Craft immersive encounters throughout the game.
• Develop working prototypes of AI and combat scenarios.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams on design implementation.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Job description

Cloud Chamber is looking for an avid Senior Combat Designer to join our team to create innovative AI characters and combat gameplay. You are collaborative by nature and excited to share your design ethos, experience, and ideas freely with the team. At Cloud Chamber we encourage our developers to DARE TO BE ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE. We want you to be exhilarated by what you do. We want you to push boundaries and engage in visionary experiments to create the novel, ground-breaking gameplay experiences that make a BioShock game truly a BioShock game.

Job Duties

• Work with Leads, the Design Director, and the design team to craft immersive encounters throughout the game.
• Act as the primary owner of combat and AI implementation in cross-disciplinary pods.
• Develop working prototypes of AI and combat scenarios.
• Communicate progress, workflows and availability of AI and combat standards to content developers.
• Maintain and tune assigned combat AI behavior and parameters through to project completion.
• Create detailed and easy to follow design documentation.
• Expand and build on the ideas of player expression and emergent design experiences.
• Use your creativity to execute on design goals and solve design challenges that push our games forward.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions, refine and execute on ideas within a schedule.
• Collaborate with cross disciplinary teams to execute on design implementation and problem solving.
• Work with a team of designers entrusted with implementing combat gameplay content in an immersive sandbox world.
• Help solidify best practices and workflows conducive to consistency and deliverability of game content within your team.
• Participate in the cross-pollination of ideas and sharing of knowledge amongst content creators.
• Collaborate with other developers to build an FPS combat paradigm that is accessible, satisfying, and allows for a high degree of player expression and experimentation within a highly reactive world.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Shipped at least one AAA title as a designer responsible for encounter design. OR, Shipped at least one AAA title as a combat designer.
• 5+ years professional experience in video game design.
• Proven experience in executing an idea from concept to ship.
• Knowledge of current game trends in technology.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with a variety of established game toolsets.
• Deep understanding of game mechanics, combat systems, and AI NPC design.
• Fluent with game development tools, and experience with pipelines, standards and workflows.
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with cross disciplinary groups.
• Current knowledge of gaming industry development landscape, technology and tools.
• Understanding of how AI, tactical space, and player verbs combine to create magic in both scripted and unscripted settings.
• Extensive knowledge of behavior trees in Unreal Engine 5.
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard AI, progression systems, and player mechanics features.
• A desire to work in a closely collaborative environment, a positive force multiplier with a great team-player attitude.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions oriented.
• Ability to partner with a diverse group of personalities effectively and constructively.
• Flexible and collaborative mindset and attitude.
• Uncompromising ethics and unwavering integrity.
• Willing to uphold the values of Cloud Chamber.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews. When emailing prospective employees we only use 2K.com accounts.
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For candidates located in Quebec:

• Proficiency in French is required.
• Proficiency in English is required to effectively collaborate with teams based in the United States.
  
  

We are Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world.

We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking. Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives.

We’re currently making the next BioShock. Our passion and love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.

If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us we’d love to meet you! Join us in creating worlds that move people.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews. When emailing prospective employees we only use 2K.com email accounts.

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