Level Designer - Irrational Games

Description

LEVEL DESIGNER - IRRATIONAL GAMES

POSITION OVERVIEW

Award-winning studio Irrational Games, best known for its BioShock franchise, is looking for talented, experienced game designers to help craft the experience on our current project, BioShock Infinite.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Work with our design tools to build encounters and narrative scenes.

·         Coordinate with artists and programmers to create levels that are second to none in the industry.

·         Analyze and critique game designs and levels. 

·         Work with the team to form a “vision” of your levels and use that vision to inform your design decisions.

·         Communicating that vision clearly and concisely to the rest of the team

·         Provide a receptive ear so that other team members can provide input on the game design.

·         Respond to critical feedback from Leads and Directors in a timely fashion. 

·         Help us push our development tools further by identifying issues and presenting ideas for solutions.

·         Seek out all available information on your area of responsibility (reference films, books, etc.) and be able to respond to spontaneous inquiries on the matter.

·         Critique all aspects of the game and offer suggestions on how to improve them.

·         Be familiar with the current state of game design across a wide range of genres on both PC and console.

·         Constantly look for opportunities to improve and expand your skillset. 

·         Become an expert in our toolset.

·         Seize opportunities to assist others and help elevate the project.