Hybrid Level Designer – 12 Month FTC

at Electric Square

• Job title: Level Designer – 12 Month FTC
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Unity, Unreal Engine
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

About the role

• Level Designer responsible for designing engaging race-track experiences for games at Lively. Collaborating with artists and game designers to prototype innovative levels and gameplay concepts.

Responsibilities

• Designs and builds fun track ribbons of varying complexity and difficulty
• Is responsible for finding the fun, injecting personality into our game through its tracks.
• Prototypes innovative levels and gameplay concepts via 3D modelling, and other tricks of the trade.
• Employs various modelling techniques to block out environments with track progression and the overall game experience in mind.
• Works in close collaboration with the environment artists and game designers, while extending collaboration and bringing solutions to the team across all disciplines.
• Assists in the continued improvement of production pipelines and workflows within the studio.
• Conducts regular playtesting sessions to gather user feedback and subsequent action points.
• Iterates on the gameplay experience to fine-tune it for maximum quality and optimum performance to ultimately ship an incredible product.
• Maintains a strong knowledge of trending track design techniques and the capabilities/limitations of these techniques as they relate to project objectives.
• Willingly and regularly shares expertise with peers and expects the same in return.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience on previous racing game development teams.
• At least 1 published racing title in a proven track design capacity (ideally non-sim).
• Confident 3D level prototyping & modelling skills across a range of packages i.e. Max. Maya, Unreal etc.
• Firm technical ability relative to game engine technologies.
• Expertise in game design concepts and 2D track layouts.
• Be very receptive to direction and feedback while performing well within a collaborative team environment.
• An enthusiastic gamer with an understanding of both track design and effective game design methodologies, with the ability to clearly and passionately communicate this to others.
• High level of expertise and knowledge in motorsport and racing principles.
• Confident and experienced working in Unity.