Gameplay Designer (Creatures)

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Gardens InteractiveVideo Game Development

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada. The applicant must also be willing to work within North America time zones., North America time zonesFull-TimeMiddle

Salary$172.1K - $206.4K

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Job Details

Required Skills: Game DesignUnreal engine

Requirements

Understanding of how players approach multiplayer play in order to create compelling and engaging creatures and creature behaviors.
Strong collaboration skills with the ability to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly.
Strong playtesting and iteration habits to maintain creative goals while focusing on player behavior and relationships.
Extensive Unreal Engine experience, with strong proficiency in Unreal Engine Behavior Trees, Blackboards, and Blueprint Scripting.
Experience working with and strong understanding of the Gameplay Ability System (GAS) in Unreal Engine.
Passion for ecological design, systemic worldbuilding, or player-driven emergent gameplay.
Love for and understanding of the animal kingdom, creature biology, and natural ecologies.

Responsibilities

Prototype, iterate, and maintain creature behaviors and abilities for both combat and non-combat scenarios in an online multiplayer environment.
Own the implementation and continuous maintenance of creature behaviors using Unreal Behaviors Trees and Blackboards from prototyping to polish.
Collaborate with engineers, artists, animators, and audio designers to bring creature designs to the player experience.
Balance and tune difficulty and behavior to create engaging encounters for multiplayer situations.
Partner with Animation to tune movement sets and provide pathfinding logic to ensure locomotion feels grounded and purposeful.
Act as a key bridge between Art/Animation and Engineering to troubleshoot visual state logic and optimize creature performance.

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