Game Designer

• Design and create a variety of terrains for real world environments.

• Work with the game design team to ensure that levels meet the vision and objectives of real-world scenarios.

• Collaborate with other members of the development team, including artists, programmers, and QA testers.

• Use Unity, Blender/Maya, Substance 3D software’s to create and modify 3D environments.

• Use scripting languages to implement gameplay features.

• Stay up to date on the latest trends in level design.

Game designers create the concepts and worlds of video games. They are involved with the design of the environment, story, characters, objectives and user experience of video games. 

Role and Responsibilities

They may be expected to deliver the following:

• Design and develop the original concept
• Construct level structure
• Storyboard the action of the game
• Conceive every element of the game including rules, setting, objects, vehicles, weapons, flora, fauna, etc, 
• Define user interface, menus and controls
• Generate the Game Design Document (GDD)
• Develop early prototypes
• Decide on the devices and platforms on which the game is played 
• Define the user experience 
• Work with programmers to design the back end of the game
• Research target audience to understand what they want in the game
• Lead the development process
• Produce sound effects, dialogue, musical score, sound mix and sound edit
• Manage quality assurance testing, and follow up on feedback
• Oversee the marketing and distribution roll-out
• Ongoing development and versions of the game

Game Designers should have a solid knowledge of 3D animation, illustration And programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Employ user-centered design practices to deliver extraordinary interactive game experiences
• Research the latest practices & industry standards from the Top notch games to create world-class immersive experience for players
• Evaluate designs quickly and craft creative high quality work
• Excellent understanding of visual design principles, style guidelines, design processes, and creative workflow
• Develop UI, graphic design, and interaction specifications/guidelines
• Ability to take on design problems independently, present and sell design concepts
• Finding creative ways to solve UX problems.
• Interface, and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure the user experience reflects player needs and consistency.

Required Skills

• 3-5 years experience in UX Design.
• Expert-level skills in Adobe Photoshop and industry-standard prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, and Figma. 
• Experience in mobile interface design
• Strong portfolio of design projects.
• Hands-on experience or knowledge of Unity 3D and motion design is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Real passion for gaming
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, interaction design, or equivalent industry experience in the design field.

Ready to work without a handbook, with a love for doing what’s never been done before!

Designation: Game Designer

Department: Game Development Team

Location: Bangalore

Qualification: Any Graduate or Post Graduate

Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in mobile game design, including at least one year on a game in live ops.

Responsibilities:

1. Experience building in-game content designed to appeal to a specific audience
2. Deep understanding of game currency and reward systems
3. Experience writing clear and concise specs, user flows, and feature documentation
4. Wide exposure to having played a variety of mobile and computer games
5. 300+ hours of obsessive gaming experience in the last 1 year.
6. Excellent written and verbal communication via phone, email and in-person meetings.
7. Strength in collaborating with cross-functional teams

Skills:

1. Proactivity - acts without being told; Brings new ideas in marketing.
2. Organization and Planning - schedule, budget, focus on key priorities. Highly process driven.
3. Handles pressure well - performs well under pressure; sets goals for self and product, and stays focused on the goals.
4. Team Player - Works well with cross-functional teams; overcomes obstacles by collaborating with others. Can inspire teams.
5. Analytical Skills - structure and process qualitative/quantitative data draw insights.
6. Attention to Detail - doesn’t let important details slip or derail projects.
7. Tech Skills - Strong technical background in game development
8. Creative- has the ability to think outside the box; willing to take calculated risks with innovative solution approaches
9. Decisive - ability to make informed decisions and stand by them

Salary: Upto 6LPA (Negotiable)

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Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain art production workflow/pipeline by writing scripts/tools to aid artists to create more efficiently
• Become embedded with external customer teams to develop games, tools and provide support
• Integrate assets into client’s applications without sacrificing artistic vision or exceeding technical limits of the platform
• Produce particles, shaders and other VFX for Unity applications(Unity 2019.4 LTS)
• Build close relationships with client engineers and with Unity's internal development teams
• Efficiently solve problems, communicate, and educate our clients, both remotely and on-site at their offices
• Proactively train yourself to remain at the forefront of Unity Engine technology

Requirements

• Excellent skills in:
  
  
  • Understanding of the technical art asset delivery for an entire game for real-time use.
  • Writing shaders for real-time rendering.
  • Unity Visual Effect Graph
  • Using Photoshop, Illustrator for Texture & sheet creation.
  • Shader Graph for unity 2019.4.2
  • Communication, in both spoken and written English
  • Self-organization and working independently
  • Collaboration and working in teams
• Enthusiasm for working with video games projects.
• Minimum experience 2+ years.
• Location - Mumbai

Bonus points

• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to make beautiful things in real-time
• Experience on 2D games
• Scripting skills in C#
• Comprehensive knowledge of rendering fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering
• Profiling and performance optimization of applications
• Experience using the Unity engine professionally
• Experience with technical writing, training or giving talks