Demiurge Studios is seeking a game designer experienced in Unreal to help define the moment-to-moment gameplay for an upcoming title. You'll collaborate with our internal design team during all stages of development. You’ll help launch a new game for a voracious, passionate audience. Then you’ll refine and extend it while it’s live. 

Your communication skills, organization, focus on iteration, and polish are all legendary. Your former coworkers would love to work with you again, and you've got a portfolio of shipped games that demonstrate your skills. People come to you for advice on gnarly Blueprint problems. You can pinpoint the key characteristics necessary to improve a game's pacing and feel, and you relentlessly prioritize to make them shine. You love games of all sorts, and it's clear to you that the best, most rewarding game of all... is making a great game for others to enjoy.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with artists, engineers, producers and team management in an iterative, agile development process.
• Drive gameplay mechanics and level design through all development phases, from concept to live operations.
• Develop solutions to novel moment-to-moment gameplay design problems.
• Greybox levels, implement encounters, script mechanics.
• Refine the game's feel and pacing until it shines gloriously.
• Once live, design responses to performance indicators and customer feedback.
• Demonstrate proven design practices and teach other designers what you know.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional video game industry experience working in Unreal, including significant work with Blueprint.
• Strong knowledge of basic game design and design theory.
• Reliable scheduling/time management skills.
• Ability to learn new tools and workflows with minimal supervision.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Preference To Applicants With

• 2+ complete product cycles from concept to ship
• Experience with prototyping and pre-production
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices
• UX design capability.

About Us:

Demiurge Studios is a rapidly growing video game developer based in Cambridge, MA. Creating games is our passion and we bring years of expertise to our projects. The teams at Demiurge build fun, accessible games like our hit, Marvel Puzzle Quest. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. In that capacity, Demiurge has contributed to titles such as Bioshock, Rock Band, and Mass Effect.

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.