Position: Combat Level Designer
Location: Remote
Stairway Games is currently looking for Combat Level Designer to join our team. As a Combat Level Designer, you’ll focus on creating mechanics, scenarios and characters that contribute to deep yet accessible combat experiences for the player.
Stairway Games is a fully funded private company based in Bali. With creative freedom from a thriving remote team of over 100 individuals from all over Indonesia and active founders, we are working to grow our studio to deliver high-quality games from Indonesia. Last year we released our first game, Coral Island. You can check out our website to learn more about us or Coral Island or check out the Coral Island steam page: https://lnkd.in/gAkSzQfE
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop combat gameplay, including enemy AI behavior, player abilities, weapon balancing, and boss designs from concept to completion
- Create and balance enemy encounters, taking into consideration player progression and difficulty scaling.
- Analyze fun factors and comprehension of combat, identifying issues and opportunities for improvement
- Work with gameplay coders, artists, and animators to create engaging and fun combat systems, features, mechanics, and encounters from concept to final.
- Work within Unreal Engine to implement character animations, script behavior trees, special effects, and system tuning.
- Contribute to establishing and enforcing consistent design practices, constraints, and metrics throughout projects.
Requirements:
- Previous experience as a Combat/Game Designer or Level Designer
- Knowledge of game design with a good understanding of combat and encounter design, balancing, difficulty, progression, feel & usability.
- Experience with Unreal Engine is ideal.
- Solid understanding of game pacing, flow, and player psychology.
- Strong understanding of the discrete elements that game systems are built upon, and the ability to problem solve both holistically and on a per-component basis
- Expert game design sensibilities, including a superb grasp of timing and instincts of what feels right. Deep understanding of the game-play systems and mechanics, able to pro/con design decisions and the ramifications they will have on the overall experience.
Plus Points:
- Previous experience working on combat-focused games.
- Familiarity with action RPG and adventure game genres.
Perks:
- 10% Employee Shares Ownership Program
- Private health insurance
- Very Competitive salary
- THR
- 5 days work week
- 14 days paid vacation every year
- Work From Anywhere
- A technical leadership team that is detail-oriented and always pushing for the best quality.
- Work with Indonesia’s top talents
Be part of a passionate team committed to delivering top-quality gaming experience! Please send your resume and a portfolio to careers@stairwaygames.com