Niantic
Principal Encounter Designer
CA - Canada; US - United States · Principal
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About the role
- Scopely is looking for a Principal Encounter Designer to join an exciting unannounced project in development.
- This role can work in person at our Culver City hub, or remotely within the US or Canada!
- You will define how player actions, enemy combatants, and environmental features combine into compelling, distinctive encounters.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-disciplinary efforts with engineers, level designers, and technical artists to build procedural systems and workflows that generate distinctive, high-quality gameplay at scale.
- Collaborate with artists and level designers to establish a visual language that makes gameplay opportunities clear and inviting across a variety of worlds.
- Partner with systems designers and product management to shape how encounter difficulty, variety, and progression will encourage players to progress their abilities.
- Hands-on implementation skills and enthusiasm for building things directly.
- A systemic, goal-driven design process grounded in playtesting and iteration.
- Clear communicator and thoughtful cross-disciplinary leader who can align partners around a high bar for quality.
- Join a team that is early in its journey to build a new F2P Multiplayer Adventure title with World Class IP.
Requirements
- Proven track record creating procedurally generated gameplay.
- Strong thematic sense, with the ability to present gameplay in evocative, resonant ways.
- Familiarity with designing for cross-platform games.
- Experience delivering emergent gameplay via physics.
Compensation
- For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below.
Benefits
- Own the vision and execution for encounter design, delivering varied multiplayer gameplay experiences that fully leverage our sandbox and support multiple player-driven solutions.
Company info
- At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players.
- Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami.
- What We're Looking For
- We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
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