- Job Title - Senior Mobile Game Designer - Hybridcasual
- Reports Into - Head of Design
- Location - Hybrid / Bangalore
A Little Bit about Kwalee….
Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with over over 1 Billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.
What’s In It For You?
- Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
- Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
- Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win
- Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
- Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
- On site gym - take care of yourself
- Relocation support - available
- Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior
- Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays!
- Kwalee Artificial Intelligence (K.A.I) - win prizes for proposing useful AI initiatives
Are You Up To The Challenge?
As our Senior Game Designer you have a talent to create fun, exciting game experiences for our players. You’ll be designing hybridcasual games, managing and overseeing hybridcasual projects and coaching of the design team
Your Team Mates
Our team is a diverse group of designers from all around the world; some working in the office, some remote. As a core department to the company, we're given a large degree of freedom and creative responsibility over every game we make.
What Does The Job Actually Involve?
- Planning, managing and overseeing of hybridcasual game projects
- Motivate, inspire and mentor a small team of designers, encouraging a culture of constant learning
- Support your team members on solving complex design, technical and implementation issues
- Evolving and adapting game designs based on play testing, feedback and live metrics.
- Driving long term player engagement by understanding mobile players needs and motivations.
Your Hard Skills
- Track record of working either on successful hybridcasual games or alternatively has worked on both casual and hypercasual games
- Knowledge of mobile free-to-play game monetisation techniques.
- Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
- Experience managing a team
- Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.
Your Soft Skills
Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues.
We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.
A Little More About Kwalee
Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.
Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.
We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France.
We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!
About Kwalee
Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.
Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.
We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France.
We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!
We're a game developer and publisher, with most of our games on mobile and some on PC & Console too. We love making games and have had over 900 million worldwide downloads.
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About Us:
We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include – CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.
We are looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Unity Developer who is confident of creating world class mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.
Position: Associate/Senior Unity Developer (Mobile Games)
Location: Noida
Educational Qualification: B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.
What You Bring to the team:
• 2-5 years of working experience in game development, preferable 2D games.
• Excellent knowledge of Unity, including experience with scripting, textures, animation, GUI styles, user session management.
• Good knowledge of game physics and particle systems
• Experience of shipping out games on Android/ iOS and rolling out updates to them
• Ability to plan and estimate timelines of new features/ releases.
• Expert in debugging
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structure and algorithms
Extra Gems for:
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Good understanding of client/ server interaction
• Experience of working on a mobile multiplayer games on scale, will be a huge plus
• Experience with Android development / Objective C
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
• Experience optimising for memory and space
Your responsibilities would include:
• As an Associate Unity game developer, you will be part of the Unity Dev team and will be responsible for the front-end (client) side development.
• You would design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Implement new game features and services
• Continuously improve the game quality by fixing crashes, ANRs, performance related issues to deliver exceptional experience to our users.
• Integrate third party SDKs like Analytics, Monetisation, Crash reporting etc.
• Create, debug, maintain and optimise the game, and related in-house written libraries used for the game’s development.
• Reporting to team lead regularly in clear and structured way regarding your progress. Proactive communication is a must when deadlines are getting missed.
Why Us?
• High Growth Startup environment
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times
We are looking for a talented unity developer (Freshers as well) to join our design team. As a unity developer, you will be responsible for planning and implementing game functionality, building the game code, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring the quality of the finished product. You may also be required to build patches and install game updates.
To ensure success as a unity developer, you should have extensive experience working with Unity and Unity3D software, excellent coding skills, and a good eye for detail. A top-class Unity developer can visualize, design, and code games that speak directly to the target market.
Unity Developer Responsibilities:
- Meeting with the design team to discuss gaming ideas and specifications.
- Establishing strategy and development pipelines.
- Planning and implementing game functionality.
- Transforming design ideas into functional games.
- Designing and building game codes.
- Identifying and fixing code errors and game bottlenecks.
- Testing game functionality and theme dynamics.
- Ensuring products conform to high industry standards.
- Designing and building game patches and upgrades.
Unity Developer Requirements:
- In-depth knowledge of unity and Unity3D software.
- Knowledge of 3D development and integrated game physics.
- Experience with console and mobile game development.
- Good communication skills.
- Experience with memory and space optimization.
- Knowledge of scripting, animation, session management, and textures.
- Good troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Description :
We are looking for Technical Mgr for our Unity team. Pls read the detailed JD below :
Skillset: Unity 2d & 3d development with C++ or C#.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Manage- a team of Unity resources through effective planning, mentoring & coaching.
- Should be strong in Technical Development & People Management.
- Must be hands-on & have experience in doing design & code reviews and handling the live server
- Ready to learn new technologies (e.g. Unreal) within the organization to grow existing operations, business & team.
- Help in setting up the processes for resource planning, forecasting and resource deployment as per the business requirement.
- People Leadership
- Recruit, motivate, mentor, train and lead the best automation talent.
- Multitasking and problem-solving abilities, context switching and & out of box thinking abilities.
- Support the professional goals and development opportunities for his/her team and review each team member & their progress.
- Create a culture of innovation and teamwork.
Why work with us?
When you join us, you become part of a fast-growing team that allows you to build your career with professionals who are committed to including, developing, and engaging people from a wide variety of backgrounds and who care as much about excellence as you do.
The unique experience that you will be getting here includes :
- An ideal mix of the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with maturity and stability that comes with years of experience in striving for success.
- Well Funded by Sequoia. High growth & profitability, year on year.
- Diverse, where people from all academic backgrounds and experience can find their place - from fresh graduates to the most experienced.
- Great work-life balance.
- Made up of people passionate about learning, creating, and innovating, always striving to find a better way of doing things. Our people are our main asset.
- Our word class Tech Stack makes us pioneers in the engineering front & you will get a chance to directly work with the senior leadership.
About Octro :
Octro is a new-age platform that aims to create leisure options for the world at large. Octro's vision is to keep creating moments of joy in human life while creating the best and most scalable leisure options. Headquartered in India, and funded by Sequoia, Octro is the largest and fastest-growing global mobile gaming company with leadership in Card, Casino & Casual games across the portfolio. Some 200M+ players have played these games 150B+ times. For the last few years, games in our portfolio have ranked consistently in India's top 10 on AppAnnie/SensorTower for Player Revenue.
Octro was founded by serial entrepreneur Saurabh Agarwal, who sold his first venture to Intellisync/Nokia. He did his MS at Stanford University.
For details, pls visit: www.octro.com
We are a hypercasual game studio based out of India with 3 published titles over last 2 years. We have generated 60MN+ downloads WW with 2M$+ in revenue in this short span of time. We are a tech first company who are trying to disrupt the hyper casual industry with tech-backwards, data-driven approach towards game development. We are foraying into hyper-hybrid casual space. Currently, as a part of this expansion, we are on lookout of rockstar unity 3D game developers to build the core team.
These are the few reasons to consider joining us -
1. A unique opportunity to be part of the core team of a game dev startup.
2. Opportunity to innovate in multiple genre.
3. We have strong tech mettle with vast software industry experience.
4. A very competitive compensation :)
(A quick introduction on myself - I have over 12+ years of experience in software industry. I exited as a Principal Engineer from amazon(.)com to bootstrap and scale Deven Studio into bigger heights.)
Thank you,
Venky
Co-Founder, Deven Studio
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Job responsibilities:
Applicants for this position must have a good working knowledge of Unity and/or Unreal Engine.
Additionally, good candidates should have:
Familiarity with standard AR and VR hardware, software, best practices, and design patterns
Ability to understand and apply 2D and 3D mathematical concepts (linear algebra, matrix
multiplication, quaternions, etc.)
Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming and coding best practices, especially in C# and/or
C++
Knowledge of game engine concepts such as lighting, shaders, materials, meshes, scripting, etc.
History of working collaboratively on multi-person teams with source control and (ideally) issue
tracking
Creativity in finding solutions to abstract design problems, particularly with respect to translating real-world concepts and interactions into VR
Capacity to prioritize tasks through self-directed time management and organization
UI/UX ability and experience a plus
Nice to have: general familiarity with industry-standard 3D graphics software such as 3DS Max,
Maya, Substance, etc.
Working in a small project-oriented development team to create custom AR and VR experiences
for enterprise use cases (engineering, biomedical, marketing, training, etc.) in Unity and/or Unreal
Engine
Collaborating with other developers and clients to evaluate project needs and come up with clever
solutions
Setting up virtual environments for a wide range of AR or VR scenarios, depending on the project
type
Implementing user interfaces based on mockups and storyboards
Crafting intuitive user interactions for both novice and experienced users
Writing well-documented, reusable code in C++, C#, or other languages as necessary
Diagnosing, documenting, and fixing bugs reported by testers and users
Using industry-standard source control and issue tracking systems (Git, Jira, Trello, etc.)
Participating in project planning and team code reviews
Keeping up with the latest trends and advancements in augmented and virtual reality
Responsibilities and Duties
- Handle one or more projects independently
- Work closely in small teams and will be delivering quality outputs in a low supervision and high possession environment.
- Produce high quality and engaging experiences within agreed time- frames. Work closely with the other developers, designers, artists and QA to develop features for all aspects of the experience including UI, animation, audio, physics and rendering.
- Share ideas and solutions for improving functionality.
- Test the code for robustness, usability and desired functionality.
- Work on bugs and improve application performance.
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
Key Skills
Unity, unity 3d, C#, Unity Developer, Augmented reality, Virtual Reality, Software Development
- Strong experience in e-learning and instructional design.
- Ability to design, develop and build blended learning experiences
- Review storyboards and final product build.
- Familiar with full CDLC, including Analysis, Storyboarding, Review, theories.
- Should be able to communicate effectively in visual, oral, and written form and deliver engaging e-learning content
- Client interaction/ management.
- Will be involved in Cross-functional activities to get the task done.
- Candidates from only Edu-tech or Education industry to apply for the role.
- Excellent Written and Verbal Communication is a must.
- Permanent WFH Opportunity.