Combat Designer – Twisted Pixel Games – Meta (formerly Facebook)

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Oculus Game Studios is seeking a highly skilled Combat Designer who will work with the development team to create a deep combat experience. The ideal candidate will be responsible for balancing, bug fixing, and making improvements to all facets of combat in the game.

Combat Designer – Twisted Pixel Games Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain combat systems
• Creating strong design proposals and combat system specifications
• Well-versed in the areas of control mechanics, enemy design, AI behaviors, combat/weapons, skills/progression, story, and boss encounters
• Balance combat difficulty progression across the length of the game
• Strong working imagination able to invent compelling enemies and envision dramatic encounters which harmonize with the narrative themes of the game
• Work to create an engaging combat experience in service of the project’s vision and goals
• Collaborate with and take direction from the Game Director to take enemy designs and combat systems from concept to completion
• Collaborate with art, code, audio, animation, visual effects to deliver enemies and combat systems that epitomize the creative vision of the game
• Facilitate communication and coordination between relevant departments to ensure overall creative vision
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks
• Participate in collaborative design sessions to develop and refine ideas for the game
• Complete tasks in a timely fashion as well as making sure they are robust, expandable, and fun
• Ability to self-critique and accept outside critique

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of games industry experience
• Scripting or programming experience (Blueprint, Lua, C++/C#, etc.)
• Must have some familiarity with workflow and best practices for modern engines (CryEngine, Unreal Engine 4, Unity, Etc.)
• Experience thinking logically, with a focus on attention to detail
• Proven team player with the experience collaborating across disciplines
• Expert game design sensibilities, including a superb grasp of timing and instincts of what feels right
• Understanding of the game-play systems and mechanics, pro/con design decisions and the ramifications they will have on the overall experience
• Experience maintaining clear and concise documentation for all systems
• Effective communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of content development tools and various engines such as Unreal and Unity
• Experience developing AAA console and/or VR products

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