Senior Combat Designer

6 Months ago • All levels • Combat Design

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Job Description

Senior Combat Designer for BioShock with AAA game experience, expert in FPS combat design, strong collaboration and communication skills.
Must have:
  • AAA Game
  • Combat Designer
  • FPS Experience
  • Collaboration Skills
Good to have:
  • Experimental Gameplay
  • Sandbox World
  • Game Trends
  • Iterative Process
Perks:
  • BioShock Franchise
  • Collaborative Team

 

 

 

Cloud Chamber is looking for a Senior Combat Designer to join our team to create industry-leading combat gameplay. You are an expert in your field and want to create incredible, compelling content. You're also excited by pushing boundaries, and experimental gameplay. We’ve set the stage for a stunning narrative and systems-driven experience, come help us breathe life into this fantastical world. 

Job Details:

  • Work with a team of designers entrusted with implementing combat gameplay content in an immersive sandbox world . 
  • Help solidify best practices and workflows conducive to consistency and deliverability of game content within your team.
  • Participate in the cross-pollination of ideas and sharing of knowledge amongst content creators. 
  • Support and mentor more junior designers in their career progression. 
  • Help build and refine the combat systems development and the gameplay framework for encounters.
  • Collaborate with other developers to build an FPS combat paradigm that is accessible, satisfying, and allows for a high degree of player expression and experimentation within a highly reactive world.
  • Get creative: look beyond direct conflict, accommodate various play-styles and design encounters that can be resolved through player ingenuity.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

  • Shipped one AAA title as a combat designer.
  • Proven experience in executing an idea from concept to ship.
  • Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions oriented.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
  • A desire to work in a closely collaborative environment.
  • Knowledge of current game trends in technology.
  • A deep love of games, with a desire to push the medium forward.
  • Ability to take direction well
  • Humble, open to coaching, an iterative process, and group critique.
  • A positive force multiplier with a great team-player attitude 
  • Mature outlook on work ethics and responsibilities.
  • Intermediate level problem solving skills.
  • Ability to partner with a diverse group of personalities effectively and constructively.
  • Strong organizational and communication skills, with a critical eye for detail.
  • Self-motivated, curious, and collaborative.
  • Flexible and collaborative mindset and attitude.
  • Champion of high standards, pushing for progress, embracing change, and challenging the status quo.
  • Uncompromising ethics and unwavering integrity.
  • Willing to uphold the values of Cloud Chamber.

We are Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world. 

We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking.  Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives.

We’re currently making the next BioShock. Our love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.

If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us we’d love to meet you! Join us in creating worlds that move people.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews. When emailing prospective employees we only use 2K.com accounts.

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About The Company

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.


Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM.


At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

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