Sr. Combat Designer

Description

Sony Online Entertainment
Position Title: Sr. Combat Designer, DC Universe Online
Department: Development
Location: Austin

Calling all Sr. Combat Designers! Sony Online Entertainment is looking for qualified candidates to join our powerful cast of heroes in SOE’s Austin studio. Come experience the excitement of working on DC Universe Online – an upcoming title where heroes and villains will collide online.

The ideal candidate will have experience designing mixed melee and ranged combat systems for third person, character based games. The position requires scripting experience and the ability to work with animators to produce multi-move combat sequences with professional look and feel.

The Sr. Combat Designer will work closely with animators and engineers to create game systems required for combat. Tasks include mapping combo sequences using proprietary tools, building animation trees in the Unreal Editor, and writing scripts to access features exposed by gameplay engineers.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Design combo trees with unique play style and feel across many different fighting styles.
• Create and maintain animation trees that support typical action combat features (e.g. stances, combo strings, multiple locomotion models, state-based sub-trees).
• Direct animation timings for combat maneuvers.
• Create and maintain combo trees and powers databases.
• Optimize animation trees while preserving the look and feel of action combat.
• Design action combat systems, skill tests, and mini-games within existing Attribute and Skill frameworks.