Senior Game Designer (9-month contract)

Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.

Our studio operates as a remote-first workplace, offering flexible work arrangements.

At this time, we are only able to hire candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada and reside within Canada.

Blackbird Interactive is looking for a Senior Game Designer to join our studio for an unannounced project.

This project is a sci-fi, first-person action game built in Unreal 5. The game is heavily systems-driven, and uses a blend of hand-authored and procedural content, with deep immersion and an emphasis on narrative.

As a Senior Game Designer, you will be responsible for developing both features and content, including brainstorming, documentation, implementation, and gameplay tuning/balancing. You should be comfortable working both in and out of the engine. You will enable and support the achievement of objectives assigned by the Design Designer and Game Director. You will communicate ideas, solicit feedback from key owners, and act on feedback given by others.

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Responsibilities

Work both in and out of the engine to design, prototype and implement content, in collaboration with other disciplines

Provide documentation and ongoing guidance to inform the implementation of features

Understand, interpret and execute on direction, in alignment with project goals

Resolve implementation issues or gameplay bugs

Assist in testing new features in order to provide Design feedback

Requirements

6-8 years of Game Design experience

Experience prototyping via Blueprints in Unreal 5

Experience building gameplay features in Unreal Engine 5

Ability to think logically with a high level of attention to detail

Knowledge of competitive products and a variety of gameplay genres

Strong written communication skills and the ability to convey abstract concepts

Pluses

Experience with procedural generation systems

Experience with highly-systemic gameplay 

Experience designing for multiplayer

Interest in single-player games

Art or Creative Writing skills

Ability to understand and communicate in technical language

\n$115,000 - $130,000 a year
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