Game Designers at Fresh Planet are responsible for creating the player experience. This means working with producers, programmers, visual designers, and others on a project team to conceptualize, structure, and polish every aspect of a game title.
Your responsibilities:
- creating design documents, flowcharts, and other documentation
- creating detailed wireframes of the interactive structure of a game
- designing in-game economies, game levels, and other numerical elements and balancing them through iterative testing
- spearheading the creation of game content and narratives
- writing in-game text, dialog, and other textual content elements
- input on the visual and audio components of a game
- leading playtesting efforts and taking part in the bugtesting process
- taking part in the generation of new concepts
Your profile:
- experience as game designers or interactive designers
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
- strong analytic skills and the ability to think structurally
- storytelling skills and a refined aesthetic sensibility
- good teamwork and collaboration skills and experience
- sensitivity and interest in designing games for a broad audience
- knowledge about social network and online games, multiplayer play, and virtual item revenue models
- comfort with a range of digital tools, from process management software to illustration and flowchart programs to spreadsheets and word processing
- a longstanding passion for playing and making games
- cultural interests outside of games
You enjoy taking up motivating challenges; you are a self-starter, reliable and relentless, who can integrate into a dynamic team within a company in full expansion.
$$$
- Salary depending on experience
- Attractive Bonus Structure
- Medical
- Stock-Options
How to apply:
This position is located in New York City and must be filled immediately. No phone calls please.
Send your CV and some samples of your work to hello@freshplanet.com citing reference: gamedesign.
(We regret that only short listed candidates will be notified.)