Principal Game Designer - Hybrid/flexible
Rebellion, United Kingdom
Job Description
Are you an experienced Principal Game Designer looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact on new IP?
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
The Opportunity
We are looking for a new Principal Game Designer to join our Rebellion Design team on working on a new IP. As a highly experienced member of the Design team, your role is to deliver game design documents and prototype specifications to the highest possible quality and support the Design team as required. Your focus will be using your expertise and experience to deliver high quality design documentation, maintain and encourage a high standard of game design within the Design team and to assist and support the Lead Designer.
Responsibilities
- Create high quality detailed game design documents and prototype specifications which can be used throughout the production process
- Regularly play the levels in production and proactively give feedback to other members of the team on their work
- Pre-emptively identify and raise any upcoming issues on behalf of the team to Lead during production, and seek feedback and confirm direction of work
- Work with multiple teams to drive the vision for these new production concepts and methods, and support the pipelines and Designer’s workflow
- Collaborate with Level Designers and Programmers to ensure prototype features can produce intended results
- Communicate and collaborate with any key stakeholders involved in the delivery of a piece of work
- Author specs for improvements and new features and create guides and tutorials to assist with training and reference materials
- Investigate and provide feedback on our pipelines from a Designer perspective and provide feedback to Lead Designer and proactively give feedback to other members of the team
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of creating game design documents and prototype specifications
- Expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / time-bound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction
- Expert knowledge of production pipelines
- Proactively ensure the game design serves the audience of the game
- Able to focus and mentor individuals and teams to achieve a specific outcome to drive performance and solve problems creatively
- Able to apply an understanding of the games industry to improve effectiveness of teams and projects
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection amp; Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more including a wide range of discounts, freebies and social events!
About Us
For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. so as long as you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or Hybrid working options.
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly and creative atmosphere. We love what we do and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about ushere
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our team