Description
SUMMARY OF POSITION:
For over 20 years Monolith has been obsessed with delivering unique gaming experiences for our fans. Combining innovative gameplay, cutting edge technology and AI, inventive narratives and stunning visuals to create award winning and best-selling games. Starting with our first game, Blood through to our most recent title, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which has been awarded with numerous Game of the Year Awards, including Gamespot, Joystiq and IGN as well as Best Action/Adventure Game at the 2014 Game Awards.
We are dedicated to ensuring that our next game is our best yet, and to achieve that we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer.
Monolith
Productions seeks an Associate Technical Designer to work closely with the Design and
Production staff to create and maintain high quality game play system
components.
This is a temporary position lasting 9 months.
Job Responsibilities:
.Work with System Designers, Game play engineers and
content teams to create and maintain system components and manage data
structures using proprietary WB tools and industry standard software.
.Work closely with QA and Consumer Play test groups to
identify and resolve design / game play issues.
.Investigate and resolve game play issues identified by
QA or team members during daily play through.
.Help keep updated design documentation, including but
not limited to the current status of quest distribution and event locations.
JOB QUALIFICATION STANDARDS:
Work Experience
· Experience scripting or coding.
· Experience working in the game industry preferred.
Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or
Certification
· Previous
experience using Lua (or equivalent scripting language) a plus.
· Engineering
or technical background strongly preferred.
Knowledge/Skills
· Passion
for game design.
· Attention
to detail.
· Self-motivated,
has initiative to learn with minimal direction.
· Strong
verbal and written communication skills.
· Positive
attitude, strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative
team environment.
· Knowledge
of the action/adventure and/or open world game genres.
The Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.