Freejam is looking for a highly creative and talented Technical Designer to join the team working on Robocraft 2. The successful candidate will experience in Unity and is able to rapidly design, prototype and implement mechanics and concepts. This can either be remote working (within GMT hours) or based in the studio in Portsmouth.
Responsibilities:
- Work independently and as part of the team on the ideation and creation of PVE experiences, using our internal systems.
- Create prototypes independently and in collaboration with other designers
- Clearly articulate prototypes, design decisions, and concepts to internal stakeholders
- Contribute to strategic decisions, working with the design and product teams
- Align and collaborate with multiple disciplines and communicate the vision of gameplay features
Requirements:
- Has worked on at least 2 commercially shipped games from concept to release
- Has experience using scripting tools such as Blueprint or Unity Visual Scripting
- Can work independently and as part of a team on the ideation, prototyping and polish of PVE experiences
- Comfortable working with coders to extend our tools and engine functionality
- Able to create clean & reusable visual scripting elements
- Has knowledge of a wide variety of online PVE games and systems and how and why they work
- Exhibit excellent problem-solving skills
- Analyse playtests
Preferred:
- Experience with UGC systems
- Experience in F2P
- Experience with enemy design and behaviour trees
- Experience with coding in Unity and C#
- Experience utilising research and data to drive strategy and decision making
- Experience developing and in a multiplayer live service environment
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What We Do
Freejam is an indie developer of several games including Robocraft, CardLife and the upcoming Techblox. We've been turning players into creators since 2013 and create great games that focus on user generated content.
We are a totally independent development studio and we are free to design, build and publish our own original games.
We are most known for our Free to Play Arena PVP game Robocraft, which has 15 million registered accounts and is continuing to grow.
We give players the power to express themselves and share their creativity. Our community continues to surprise us every single day. Across our games they’ve built robots, cars, weapons, houses, and complex machines and even fully playable games.
We are using the most advanced technology to create truly incredible UGC games that provide never seen before unique gaming experiences. We already have a fantastic team and are continuing to expand as we work on our next big UGC title, Techblox.