Level Designer

A Level Designer creates the game world and defines the moment-to-moment gameplay experiences with the game’s mechanics and systems. With a player-oriented mindset, you will take levels from concept to fully playable prototypes, and further work with other disciplines to deliver fully realized, narrative experiences to a AAA standard.

The main and routine tasks of the Level Designer are to:

• Conceptualize and prototype the layout of 3D game environments and player goals and activities
• Communicate designs to the team through presentations and documents
• Build 3D game worlds by placing interactive elements in the game world to create variety, distribution, and progression of player activity using iterative design methods
• Collaborate with Directors and Leads to bring their high-level creative vision of our game worlds to life
• Collaborate with other game developers in other job disciplines such as Production, Engineering, Art, Lighting, Animation, and others – adapting to technical constraints while bringing game environments from concept to shippable quality
• Contribute to the improvement of the overall game by providing feedback to the team and use their feedback to iterate on your designs.
• Stay up to date on current trends, best practices, and latest technologies in your field of expertise
• Share knowledge and mentor junior team members

Requirements

• Demonstrates passion and talent for games and game development
• Good communication skills, positive attitude, great work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment
• Ability to design, conceptualize, and create playable 3D game levels using level editors or game engines (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• Knowledge of game design conventions and systems
• Good understanding of the relationship between core game mechanics, gameplay spaces and interactive elements
• Knowledge of the game development process and game production pipeline
• Fast learner, takes initiative, and meets deadlines

Good to have

• Experience with text-based or visual scripting to create gameplay
• A background in traditional 2D or digital 3D art is a big plus