Technical Designer

Playable Worlds, Inc.; San Marcos (CA); Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team of game industry professionals at a forward-thinking company that is redefining online gaming. As a Technical Designer, you will play a pivotal role in creating engaging gameplay systems for a sandbox MMO built for the cloud. This position offers the chance to work remotely while collaborating with diverse teams to ensure seamless integration of gameplay features. With competitive pay and benefits, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects in a collaborative environment. If you have a passion for gaming and possess the skills to bring new ideas to life, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience with MMO-like complexity.
• Experience in designing and documenting gameplay systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement gameplay systems, ensuring scalability.
• Collaborate with Art and Audio teams for feature requirements.

Skills

Scripting Languages

TypeScript

Game Design

Systems Coordination

Task Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Bachelor's in Gaming

Tools

Unity

C#

Job description

About Playable Worlds

Playable Worlds is a team of talented and creative game industry professionals working together on a sandbox MMO built for the cloud. Led by Raph Koster (Ultima Online; Star Wars Galaxies) Playable Worlds offers a collaborative and diverse work environment, competitive pay and benefits, and an opportunity to create new kinds of gameplay and experiences in online worlds that feel real and engaging.

All positions at Playable Worlds are currently remote. The salary range for this position is $70,000-$90,000 annually, & stock options.

Summary

This Technical Designer position is responsible for:

• Designing the technical implementation of gameplay systems, execute that implementation, and document it.
• Iterating on new and existing systems based on feedback from the team and players
• Coordinating with Engineering to ensure that design scripting efficiently meshes with other game systems and ensuring MMO-Level scalability of all systems
• Collaborating with the Art and Audio teams to determine the visual/auditory requirements of gameplay features and systems

The ideal candidate will have worked with these responsibilities on multiple other game projects, and ideally with games that have MMO-complexity and a similar set of systems.

Knowledge/Skill/Ability Requirements

• Experience level: Must have 7+ years of industry experience and have shipped 2 or more projects with MMO-like complexity of systems where they were a material systems contributor.
• Education level: Bachelors or greater. Computer science or gaming are useful.
• Must have extensive experience with at least 1-2 scripting languages. Knowledge of TypeScript is a requirement.
• Familiarity with Unity.
• Must be able to quickly learn new systems that were internally created and are specific to this project
• Ability to prioritize a variety of tasks in a manner that enables timely completion.

Bonus Points for Any of These

• You will often need to read source for the main game and familiarity with C# is a major plus.
• A passion for video games.
• Significant experience with competitive and cooperative multiplayer online games.

Job descriptions are not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee.

Playable Worlds Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants and providing a work environment free of illegal discrimination and harassment. More than this, we are committed to listening to as many diverse employee viewpoints as we can to make our products appealing to a wide variety of individuals. A diverse set of employees means better products that appeal to more customers and is good business sense.

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