Senior Gameplay Designer (Combat)

Description

About ProbablyMonsters™ Incubation Team

Established in 2016, ProbablyMonsters is a next generation independent game company that creates long-lasting studios and exceptional games. Revolutionizing the way AAA game studios are built, ProbablyMonsters provides its teams the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers while delivering best-in-class entertainment through a positive people-first culture.

We have built three studios so far. Each of them has a unique identity built around the type of gamer experience they are creating. Knit together inside the ProbablyMonsters family culture, all studios are bonded by the core values of respect, trust, accountability, and approachability.

Connected by the company's mission to unite, guide, and empower developers to create exceptional entertainment experiences, developers are given the confidence, security, and stability to create and ship their games free of distractions.

Our Incubation Team focuses on prototyping new ideas, new game concepts, new franchises, and the incubation of new studios with the ambitious vision to create genre defining games for the next generation of players. This is one of those unique opportunities that only happen once in a lifetime.

The Role

ProbablyMonsters is looking for a creative, technical, and team focused Senior Gameplay Designer (Combat). You will join a team in the early stages of developing a new game, franchise, and studio. Our team will be focusing on action game play, world building, level design, AI, and character design during the early pre-production phase.

We are seeking a Senior Gameplay Designer who is experienced in developing gameplay and/or player characters for action games. We are in an early phase of development where exploration and innovation happen quickly, and are balanced against building tools and hardening the core game. Being able to prove out initial versions of new concepts without additional technical support is an important part of this role at this stage of development. We are all enthusiastic about helping to shape a culture of collaboration and trust while creating best in class action game experiences.

Who You Are

• Enthusiastic about core game loops and design fundamentals.
• Comfortable working in the highly iterative and ambiguous realities of early game development.
• Unwavering in your desire to create a positive and inclusive work culture.
• Effective at breaking down complex ideas and communicating them effectively across disciplines.
• Motivated and independent when possible, unafraid to ask for help when needed, and always willing to offer help.
• Skilled at giving and receiving feedback on game design and interpersonal interactions.

What You Will Do

• Drive the creation of core action features that deliver player intent joyfully.
• Prototype player character abilities to prove out combat, traversal, and test new technology.
• Work closely with art and narrative to ideate new player character designs.
• Work closely with animation and visual effects artists to deliver player character designs.
• Playtest and help evaluate encounters to help drive how AI and players interact.
• Attend playtests and provide constructive feedback across all aspects of the game.
• Communicate the technical requirements and vision for design workflows and pipelines.
• Support the team with desk side communication.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Designer.
• Experienced in gameplay or player character design and knowledgeable in many other areas of design.
• Advanced Unreal Blueprint or related scripting engine experience and/or foundational experience programming in C++/C#.

Our Commitment To You

• A people-first culture founded on respect, trust, approachability, and accountability.
• A stable home that values your potential, deeply cares about your work-life balance, and is committed to investing in your craft and long-term career.
• Competitive benefits package including health and family benefits, employee assistance program, flexible and paid time off, financial benefits and professional and personal development.