Open-World Gameplay Environment Designer

Sunblink; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunblink is seeking a mid-to-lead level designer for a ~30 hour/week contract in Boulder to design and prototype open-world environments from blockout to playable spaces.

You will balance visual spectacle with tight playability, define flow of large spaces, and build traversal systems and POIs that drive the player's journey. Collaboration across art, design, and engineering is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience designing large-scale, non-linear spaces with a portfolio showing layout and gameplay work.
• Ability to balance visual spectacle with playability and pacing in open-world environments.
• Prototyping in-engine using scripting or visual scripting to test ideas early.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype open-world environments end to end from blockout to gameplay-ready spaces.
• Define layout, sightlines, traversal routes, choke points, and pacing between areas of differing intensity.
• Design and implement traversal systems, POIs, encounters, and interactive environmental gameplay.

Skills

Open-world design

Prototyping

Unreal/Unity

Blueprints/scripting

Navigation & guidance

POIs and encounters

Art/design collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Scripting (C#, C++, Lua, Python)

Job description

Sunblink is seeking a mid-to-lead level designer for a ~30 hour/week contract in Boulder to design and prototype open-world environments from blockout to playable spaces.

You will balance visual spectacle with tight playability, define flow of large spaces, and build traversal systems and POIs that drive the player's journey. Collaboration across art, design, and engineering is essential.