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Deck Nine Games

Westminster, Colorado - United States
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Level Designer

Description

Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a mid-senior Level Designer for a AAA narrative adventure game. The position involves designing, prototyping, building spaces, and interfacing with other departments in the creation of game scenes in our own proprietary game engine. Position is full-time remote. Apply through our website: https://deckninegames.com/careers/

 

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the game director and other leads to keep alignment on the project
  • Work closely with environment artists to develop and deliver against the game vision
  • Design, greybox, and manage the development of game levels for our narrative adventure game
  • Ensure the convergence of level, gameplay, and narrative eliminate friction for the player experience
  • Define and drive quality with regard to the flow of created game spaces
  • Drive the design and creative process for game levels, working with other teams to create objectives, challenges, puzzles, and events that fit within game spaces
  • Collaborate with writers, designers, cinematic artists, and engineers to ensure the narrative is being told through the levels
  • Work with stakeholders in reviewing levels, as well as full builds of the game
  • Help drive playtests to gather critical level feedback and develop a plan of action to address issues
  • Mentor and advise other designers in the level design process and best practices
  • Work closely with production to manage development schedules, bug tracking, team health, and morale

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience as a level designer
  • Significant involvement in 2 published games
  • Experience leading and supporting a quality-driven team
  • A thorough grasp of good level design principles (difficulty, pacing, tension, etc.)
  • Well-versed in all aspects of level design, including documentation, greyboxing, and implementing interactive objects
  • Proven ability supporting narrative through level design
  • UE4 experience
  • Blueprints or other scripting experience
  • Single-player level design experience
  • Experience working with story-heavy content
  • Puzzle design experience
  • Ability to easily communicate with programming
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Experience working collaboratively
  • Listen to all the ideas and coherently answer questions
  • Review, troubleshoot, and provide feedback
  • Be a passionate leader every day

Pluses:

  • Experience in game design
  • Understanding the specific needs of narrative adventure games
  • Shipped at least 1 narrative adventure game
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

 

We are not able to sponsor visas.

 

Benefits

·         Competitive salary depending on experience

·         Generous vacation time and paid parental leave

·         Health insurance for you and your family at a low cost to you

·         Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family at NO cost to you

·         Life and Disability benefits at NO cost to you

·         Optional Flexible Spending Account (including Healthcare and Limited Purpose), Dependent Care Account, and Health Savings Account available

·         Optional Supplemental Health and Life Insurance

·         401(k) Plan with an Employer Match

·         Growth opportunities for your career

 

 

Salary Range:   $60,000-$80,000 DOE

**Please note that the compensation information is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. **

 

 

 

About Deck Nine

 

Here at Deck Nine Games our passion is storytelling games. We are an independent game developer dedicated to crafting AAA interactive story games that inspire, transform, and entertain players. In 2021 we released Life is Strange True Colors, which went on to win multiple awards for storytelling and visuals, including best storytelling for 2021 and a VGA for Games for Impact. Recently we announced that we are developing a game for the hit sci-fi Amazon series, The Expanse. Our prior titles have won multiple awards, including Game of the Year and nominations for VGA and BAFTA awards. The studio is 100+ amazing people both located in our headquarters in sunny Westminster, Colorado and spread throughout the world permanently remote.

As the crafters of stories that encompass the full breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural team in which people from all walks of life feel inspired to do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believe deeply in the creativity and strength built from diversity of race, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and the many other qualities that make us different.

If this sounds appealing to you, please apply now!

 

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