Game Designer, Metagame Systems

Job Description

Game Designer, Metagame Systems - Unpublished Mmo

As a Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Game Designer III specializing in meta-systems, you excel in designing features and content which increases player connection to the virtual world they are taking part in. You partner with other designers, artists, and engineers to create and iterate on a variety of features ranging from power progression to customization to non combat activities. All of these features contribute to an experience which is deep, compelling, and always feels rewarding. We are still small, so this requires plenty of hands-on work creating, iterating, and tuning levels and mechanics. You are comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment where goals and constraints are mostly team driven and where change, big and small, is a critical part of the process. You will report to the Systems Design Lead on the team.

Responsibilities:
• Create intricate rewards that enhance the overall player experience and give players satisfying long term progression and goals
• Design creative, strategic, and immersive non combat activities that players can engage in for 100s of hours
• Design systems and features that foster deeper social bonds between players and healthy player economies
• Create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Implement, iterate, and tune features in the game engine so that they realize our design goals
• Synthesize feedback, data and product goals to balance large systems both through development and across a live deployment

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Experience in developing meta-systems
• Experience with progression or rewards systems like leveling and items
• Demonstrated proficiency scripting in at least one engine in a shipped title
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ game
• Deep level of understanding, passion, and engagement with online multiplayer PvE games (ARPG, MMOs)

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience designing non combat systems like crafting, gathering, or social interactions
• Experience designing for Social Systems
• Experience with balancing a long term game economy or crafting systems
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvm46n-18-218-184-214-42 in your application.