Game Designer

Purpose

To take responsibility for the design of games and to monitor these games through development ensuring that the integrity of the game and the game-play is of the highest standard, in line with required timescales and to do this in conjunction with senior members of the design team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Day to day design work on current games in design following the game design process
• To write game design documents in accordance with the game design process
• To hand over game designs to a development team and ensure their understanding of the design
• To be assigned a particular game to monitor during development and ensure that game is of the highest quality
• To play and suggest appropriate changes to all games currently in development and prototyping
• To liaise between the designers and the Producers / Associate Producers of the assigned game on a regular basis
• To maintain an up to date design document with all agreed design changes of the assigned game
• To ensure all delivered versions of games are thoroughly play-tested, reporting all game changes back through PR tracker
• Report current issues in the games in development to the Producer/Associate Producer and Creative Director
• Report any issues in the assigned game that may compromise the quality or popularity of the final game
• Constantly liaise with Creative Director, Producer and QA Team Leader
• Liaise with relevant prototyping programmers regarding current and new designs in prototyping

Key Contacts

• Creative Director
• Producer / Associate Producer of assigned game
• QA Team Leader of assigned game
• Other Designers

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Personal skills / abilities Detail conscious
• Communication Skills - Written (report writing) & Verbal
• Time management skills
• Ability to breakdown a problem or issue with a game and then describe it in detail
• Diplomatic in reporting issues with games
• Team worker
• Unselfish attitude to games and idea ownership
• Creative thinker
• Ability to accept other people's ideas and suggestions
• Willing to learn and research subjects
• Self motivated
• Able to negotiate and argue their case on game specific issues
• Ability to work with people at all levels
• Outgoing Personality

Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Software / hardware / programming skills
• M/S Office
• Educational Qualifications Minimum 2 'A' Levels, C or better
• Degree, any subject
• Above can be overruled by games industry experience
• Career background including amount of experience required Must be an avid player of both PC and console games
• Able to demonstrate a wide knowledge of games, both old and current
• Understand how games work, why people play games and the motivation the game gives a player to continue playing the game
• Experience of teamwork and be flexible with regard to working hours
• Must own at least one current games system, preferably more
• Technical Awareness of the development process