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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)

IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

• 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!

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

Responsibilities Include

The ideal candidate should be both creative and detail-oriented, has proven mobile game design experience, and is comfortable working with stakeholders ranging all the way from product and marketing teams to the engineering team. The work environment is fast-paced and results driven.

Roles and Responsibilities

 Own the entire design of new features existing games or new games and take full responsibility for coordinating with various stakeholders until go live

 Generate new and innovative feature ideas, enhancements to the existing products and collate

requests from both internal and external requestors

 Create innovative user experience design including usability and interaction design flow for features

 Create functional and design documents, business cases, user experience flow and wireframes, conduct reviews with requestor groups and development teams and be the main contact for the specifications/design during the game development and implementation phases.

 Interact with all relevant stakeholders to drive timely, seamless and successful rollouts/launches.

 Define, track and improve key product metrics and monitor those metrics. 

Skills and Experience Desired

 Have a passion for games

 Minimum 5+ years of Game Design experience in mobile and ideally designing free to play games within-app purchases

 Experience in designing games for Android and iOS is a must

 Strong analytical, organizational and creative skills

 Exceptional levels of attention to detail

 Must be proficient in Excel, Formulas, and able to provide visual designs with mock-ups in any tool ofyour choice.

 Experience with live game events/sales design and content calendar planning

 Strong analytical abilities and able to synthesize game systems and mechanics to improve game

features and systems

 Understanding the specifics of social and mobile games

 Knowledge of the market and the main trends of social and mobile games

 Knowledge and experience with the main game metrics

 Ability to create a high-quality, addictive online and social game feature-sets

 Experience with multiple aspects of game design discipline: concept, game progression, combat,

interface, monetization, and retention

 Experience in designing games and monetization models for F2P games.

 Thorough understanding of mobile gaming ecosystems.

 Knowledge of designing traditional card, board and dice game is a plus.

 Proven ability to create detailed game design documents.

 Understanding of social networks and social gaming markets is a plus.

 Ability to work in a fast-paced cross-functional team environment is a must.

 A very hands-on and keen eye for detail, with the ability to present business and technical issues,

ideas, and recommendations clearly in verbal, written and presentation formats.

 Positive, pro-active attitude with a will to deliver quickly, adhering to tight deadlines.

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for talented developers to join our team which has worked on multiple #1 top grossing games. We are now working on an exciting new mobile shooter game. You will collaborate with Designers, Artists and other Engineers to implement core systems and workflows

• Work with designers and artists to integrate and implement new features
• Develop animated and interactive user interface based on flow documents
• Build performance critical gameplay features
• Build UI development Pipeline for sprites, atlases and downloadable content
• Optimize UI draw calls and script execution time
• Implement UI supported for different resolutions and platforms
• Partner with UX designers and artists to develop best practices and solutions

• Expert knowledge in Unity UI framework
• Experience with Unity APIs and plugins
• Good understanding of State machine, OOPs concepts, and SOLID principles
• Experience with Addressables assets and downloadable content
• Good understanding of Unity scene management, nested prefabs and script execution order
• Experience in optimising game using profiler, reducing load time and draw calls
• Have experience of building complex UI with 2D and 3D elements
• Experience of building UI for different resolutions and platforms like iOS, Android [PC & console is plus]
• Strong proficiency with Unity and C#, with at least one shipped title as part of a medium to large engineering team
• 2+ years of game development experience in a related role
• Capable of delivering quality Code Review feedback