Senior Game Designer – Console F2P Games – South East, UK – Permanent

OPM’s client, a developer of multi-platform video games based in the UK is looking for a Senior Game Designer to work with them on an exciting new project.

You’ll be the standard bearer for the game vision, the one that others go to, to ask questions and challenge. This is an exciting opportunity to work with world class game developers on an original city-building strategy game for console, in a highly creative environment. You’ll be able to create scripts, balance economies, design compulsion loops, write back stories and tie it all together into a compelling social free-to-play experience. When the game goes live, you’ll iterating on designs based on feedback from the analytics team and the player community.

Responsibilities:

• Designing a new game from the ground floor and influencing the creative direction for the whole team
• Working effectively within a tiger team of other passionate developers striving to make the best game possible
• Delivering projects that can scale from soft launch conditions to global success and beyond
• Working with data analytics to optimise and iterate on game mechanics and balance throughout development phases and LiveOps

Requirements:

• Professional senior design experience in game development with a number of shipped titles
• Experience working with Unity
• Strong Excel skills and experience with data driven games
• Experience of strategy game play testing and design
• Extensive knowledge of the free-to-play games market
• A passion for playing games, particularly simulation and management genres
• Experience working on city-building or real-time strategy games is beneficial, as is experience working on console games

The successful candidates will receive a competitive salary dependant on their skills and experience.

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