Senior Game Designer
Stardock Corporation - Plymouth, MI
Work at Stardock Corporation
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Overview
Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Create and translate high-level product goals into engaging and innovative game mechanics and player stories in collaboration with the Production, Art, Engineering, and Design teams.
- Collaborate closely with other Senior Game Designers and the Creative Director to ensure cohesive and innovative game design across all project elements.
- Brainstorm, develop ideas, create worlds, and contribute to the design of a new AAA strategy/simulation game.
- Author, maintain, and interpret comprehensive Game Design Documents.
- Script complex events, AI behaviors, and intricate game mechanics utilizing in-house tools and editors and Unreal Engine.
- Oversee and maintain gameplay balance, swiftly addressing and resolving gameplay bugs.
- Leverage generative AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline design workflows, ensuring efficient development processes.
- Mentor and guide Associate Designers, fostering their growth and development.
- Advocate for the Design team, ensuring their needs and ideas are effectively communicated.
- Engage with our player base, evaluating and incorporating valuable feedback and suggestions.
- Stay abreast of trends and innovations in PC strategy games, integrating best practices into our designs.
Education and/or Experience Desired:
- Bachelor's Degree in Game Design, Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience with at least one shipped AAA game title.
- Proven experience with at least one shipped strategy or simulation game.
- Passion for PC strategy and simulation games and an understanding of their mechanics.
- Broad familiarity and interest in history, anthropology, science fiction.
- Excellent creative writing and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to champion design ideas and inspire enthusiasm in others.
- Experience managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new, often proprietary technology and tools.
- Sense of ownership and responsibility in project work.
- Experience with LUA or similar scripting languages.
- Experience reading, implementing, and maintaining data with XML or similar.
- Established understanding of existing Stardock franchises preferred (i.e. Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations, etc.).
Bonuses:
- Experience working on a game created in Unreal Engine.
- Experience with/creating Unreal Engine Blueprints.