Unity Developer

• 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!

We are seeking a developer responsible for building games for various target platforms based on the Unity framework. Your primary responsibilities will be to implement game functionality translating design ideas, concepts, and requirements into a functional and engaging game. A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and a quality product are essential.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIEs of UNITY DEVELOPER :

- Preparing the detailed design and technical spec and having it reviewed/approved by the client and other intersecting teams.

- Responsible to work with the creative team and come up with amazing, out-of-the-box, and robust immersive environments and products.

- Create and improve processes to build high-functioning teams

- Keep up to speed with the quickly evolving market of creators, NFTs, and gaming and work with internal researchers to identify market opportunities.

- Foster transparency in the organization by presenting product features to internal teams and stakeholders

- Will do code reviews and mentor developers.

- Responsible to ensure critical features/products are delivered to our clients on time

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS :

- At least one life simulation or online gaming PM experience - well-versed in game/simulation development in VR

- 4+ years of experience in consumer and social community (life simulation, gaming, and/or esports preferred).

- At least one owner of a product that has reached substantial usage

- 2+ years of 3D development experience is must as you are going to join a team that is working in Metaverse

- 4+ years experience building products across platforms - web, mobile, and meta platforms on top of other platforms

- Experience with analytical tools and cohort analysis on consumer usage patterns

- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to stay organized while working across multiple platforms and teams concurrently.

- 2+ years experience in an Agile Environment; turning product stories into PRDs, tracking

- KPIs, and coordinating teams to hit milestones

- Experience working cross-functionally with remote teams spread all around the world

- Excellent communication skills.

- Comfortable making decisions autonomously, and having the ability to support them with research and data-driven insight.

Passionate about adapting to new technologies.

REQUIRED SKILLSET :

- Excellent Unity skills including experience with scripting, textures, and animation. Unreal would be a plus.

- Experience in developing augmented reality or virtual reality solutions

- Confidence in tackling C#, 2D & 3D, gameplay, UI, tools, networking and multiplayer

- Planning & bench-marking for setting industry standards

- Experience in gaming in Unity, WebGL, WebAR, and/or XR Cloud technologies.

- Ideally some prior experience with one or more of these: Web3 and metaverse enabling technologies, such as AR/VR, 5G, geolocation, IoT/Edge computing, distributed ledger technology (e.g., blockchain), and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML).

- Other relevant experience includes digital content production and licensing multiplayer online gaming / virtual worlds, digital advertising, e-commerce, and the consumer goods & services industry.

- Experience with mobile and console game/application development.

PREFERRED SKILLS :

- Exposure/Knowledge in Metaverse/VR with Oculus Quest would be a major plus

Who Are We?

At AutoVRse, we build the finest, customized Virtual and augmented Reality (VR/AR) applications, helping enterprises harness the power of immersive technologies across several key functions. Combining our photo-realistic visualizations with interactive virtual environments, we have partnered with firms like Shell, Bosch, Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Godrej, and TVS Motors to deploy VR experiences in India, Singapore, Australia, Germany and the USA.

What Will You Work On?

You will join the game studio team within AutoVRse, helping build District M, a VR, rhythm-based platformer, a first-of-its-kind for an indie studio out of India. As a core part of this team, you will play an instrumental role in creating this game and ushering in the next era of immersive gaming.

• We launched a free demo on Oculus Applab, and a lot of content creators/gamers are in love with it!
• Our official game trailer was featured in the UploadVR Summer Showcase, 2022 - earlier this year.
• We've recently become a part of the "PlayStation Partner" program and will soon be working on making our game accessible across VR platforms.

As a Game Developer, you will work closely with the design and production art teams to create mechanics and components that are a core part of the gameplay. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills, who have a passion for gaming and are excited to create diverse, impactful and memorable experiences for our user base. Your enthusiasm to take on new problems is what will help us push the boundaries of what is possible in VR games today.

What Can You Look Forward To?

• Build multi-platform VR games (starting with District M), for - Meta Quest 2, PSVR etc.
• Ideating, and implementing game mechanics from a prototype stage to a fully polished game.
• Participate in the feature / mechanics-definition process, along with the Design and Art teams.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, production artists and level designers.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Working in and growing along with an ambitious, accelerating, early-stage game studio.

Mandatory Qualities:

1. Experience in game development workflows, engines, processes and tools.

2. Demonstrated ability of building polished mechanics and systems built with scalable code practices.

3.   Thorough knowledge of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming), Data Structures and Algos.

4. Basic idea of 3D Design concepts - modelling / geometry, texturing, lighting, maps etc.

Good-To-Haves:

1. Experience with Virtual Reality (VR), including but not limited to 3D Graphics, OpenGL et al.

2.   Knowledge of VCS (Version-Control Systems) such as Git, Unity Collab / similar.

3. Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Design Patterns, 3D Math, UI, Animation.

4.   Knowledge of 3D Design Tools such as Blender, Substance Painter/Design, 3dsMax / Maya etc.

5. 1-2 years of game / VR development experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, C # et al.

Salary Range: ₹ 5,00,000 - 12,00,000 PER ANNUM

• You're proficient in Unity3D and/or Unreal game engine  
• You've experience building experiences on iOS, Android and web platforms 
• You have a passion for writing code as well as understanding and crafting the ways systems interact
• You believe in the benefits of agile processes and shipping code often
• You are pragmatic and work to coalesce requirements into reasonable solutions that provide value

• Deploy well-tested, maintainable and scalable software solutions
• Take end-to-end ownership of the technology stack and product 
• Collaborate with other engineers to architect scalable technical solutions
• Embrace and improve our standards and processes to reduce friction and unlock efficiency

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.