Hybrid Multiplayer Game Designer | Unreal & Missions Lead

Apex Systems; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 59,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex seeks an inspiring Multiplayer Game Designer to help craft compelling missions, modes, and combat systems for action games. You will collaborate with the Lead Multiplayer Designer, the Design team, Level Art, programmers, and other disciplines to realize the design vision.

You will own mission design quality, use Unreal and proprietary tools for development, and work in a hybrid Vancouver environment with cross-team feedback driving iteration.

Qualifications

• Experience with visual scripting/scripting languages, ideally in Unreal Engine.
• Strong understanding of game design fundamentals, constraints and narrative.
• Demonstrated knowledge of gameplay systems in levels.
• Experience working collaboratively in a cross-discipline development environment.
• Experience with current scripting languages and level editors.
• Experience with game consoles and tools.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and steward the design of missions, modes and gameplay to the final stages of polish.
• Use Unreal as well as proprietary tools to create and debug missions and gameplay.
• Own the design and quality of your missions and gameplay systems.
• Regularly collaborate with other designers, technical designers, and artists.
• Become a contact point for other departments (Cinematics, VFX, Sound, Programmers, etc.)
• Use the Unreal tools to implement memorable challenges, combat, objectives, and scripted events.
• Participate in critique sessions to provide input to personal and peers’ work.
• Regularly present your work to your leads and adjust quickly to feedback.
• Create and maintain design documentation.

Skills

Gameplay design

Scripting languages

Collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Level editors

Scripting tools

Job description

Everforth Apex seeks an inspiring Multiplayer Game Designer to help craft compelling missions, modes, and combat systems for action games. You will collaborate with the Lead Multiplayer Designer, the Design team, Level Art, programmers, and other disciplines to realize the design vision.

You will own mission design quality, use Unreal and proprietary tools for development, and work in a hybrid Vancouver environment with cross-team feedback driving iteration.