Senior Combat Designer
Boston, MA, USA
Possible remote option for experienced candidates

CREATE AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

• Join an indie studio in a high-growth mode that is working on an ambitious and exciting new project
• Work alongside the creators of The Flame in the Flood and Drake Hollow

LEVEL UP WITH THIS CREW

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision plans available – for employees and dependents
• 401K with matching
• Company paid long & short term disability plans, and life insurance
• Profit sharing plan
• Unlimited PTO and flexible schedule
• Environmental company paid offset of employees’ carbon footprint via Wren.co
• Positions worked in office are hybrid: M/W/F work from home & T/Th work in office, with lunch provided on the in office days
• Dog friendly office

MAKE AN IMPACT

• Develop and refine our approach to combat and foundational combat systems.
• Pitch, prototype, implement, balance and ship a wide variety of enemy types, including core enemies and bosses.
• Tune the combat experience at the micro level: animation lengths, i-frames, damage volumes, etc.
• Implement each character type’s combat behavior using techniques such as behavior trees, animation graphs and blueprint.
• Work with character art, animation, VFX and audio to ship characters with state-of-the-art levels of polish.
• Help balance combat-related systems such as player leveling and experience, weapons, and damage.
• Produce documentation to communicate your proposals and designs, and work with production to ensure they can be implemented with the time and resources available

SHOW US YOUR SKILLS

• Prior experience on a shipping game.
• Candidates must have a US work permit or citizenship.
• The ability to communicate fluently with engineering, art and production.
• Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude

BONUS POINTS

• Prior experience shipping a core game as a combat designer
• Any kind of scripting experience, be it visual (such as Blueprint) or text-based (such as Python, Lua, or C#)
• Unreal Engine 4 experience