Senior Combat Designer

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TT Games was acquired by Warner Bros. in 2007 and went on to develop the hit LEGO games franchise. The company is proud to continue its mission to be the leading publisher of interactive entertainment for young gamers and their families.

 

TT Games are looking for a talented Senior Combat Designer to work on an exciting new LEGO game based on a major IP. Reporting to a Lead Designer, you will be responsible for creating a high quality, exciting and accessible combat system that will provide players with countless hours of enjoyment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design & implement the game’s melee + ranged combat system, in liaison with your Lead Designer, Head of Game and other disciplines such as code, art, animation, sound and visual effects.

• Design an exciting and tactically interesting range of combat abilities for the game’s roster of characters

• Design interesting and fun to fight against enemy types and enemy behaviours

• Design enemy AI group behaviours to deliver exciting but manageable encounters

• Ensure the combat design delivers on the vision of the game and is accessible to the target audiences

• Constantly iterate on the combat design, balancing and implementation, taking on board feedback from other designers, other disciplines, management, external stakeholders and user testing; ensuring the combat reaches the highest levels of quality and fun

REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience of developing real-time melee & ranged combat systems for shipped console or PC titles

• Proven track record of designing & producing high quality, accessible combat systems, with a focus on melee combat

• A great understanding of what makes melee and ranged combat feel really satisfying and an ability to create compelling systems that exploit this knowledge

• Excellent rapid prototyping skills

• Collaborative approach with great communication skills, able to clearly communicate the rationale behind design decisions

• Experience of online combat design & understanding of networked considerations within combat systems an advantage

• UE4 experience an advantage

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