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Senior/Lead Gameplay Designer

Manticore Games

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51-200

San Mateo, CA, USA

About the job

Overview:

Manticore Games® is building a new immersive, open world sandbox life-simulation Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game leveraging the power of its UGC platform, Core. Manticore launched the Core platform in 2021, featuring live events, interactive entertainment, and more than 50,000 games and worlds to play and explore. Core is a radically accessible game construction kit and social game-playing platform, all-in-one. Now, Manticore is expanding on the Core universe and is looking for qualified pioneers to join the journey.
We are looking for an experienced and innovative Gameplay Designer to help build a new, immersive multiplayer experience. Working in collaboration with the product, production, art, and engineering teams, you will help shape and work on a new immersive, open world sandbox life-simulation Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. As a Designer, your work will be critical to the game’s success and growth.
Responsibilities:

Conceptualize, design, and implement game content, social features, and engaging moment-to-moment gameplay.
Outline clear high-level designs for genre-defining systems and advocate for these designs with key stakeholders across key development groups.
Work closely with designers and product managers to create fun, engaging, and diverse features and experiences.
Collaborate with environment artists and gameplay engineers to create, implement, and polish systems and mechanics.
Contribute to presentation, the level design of world spaces, gameplay and systems design, and more.
Adapt to technical and production constraints & participate in finding solutions to optimize features.
Write and maintain specification design and game-balancing spreadsheets documents.
Be an advocate for player experience and create compelling user stories.
Help implement game system, gathering feedback and adjusting design accordingly.
Your player empathy and creativity help create in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will work with interdisciplinary teams, contributing and translating feedback to improve and iterate player-focused designs to delight players.

Requirements:

Experience as an advocate for player experience with a history of creating quality games, and features.
Strong technical ability in implementing features either created by yourself or by engineers.
Deep understanding of what makes games fun and current best practices.
Demonstrated experience tuning and balancing games.
A minimum of 8 years of experience in game design or related experience.
Critical thinking, curiosity, resourcefulness, and flexibility in a changing environment.
Strong understanding of free-to-play design, mechanics, and strategies.
Experience building MMORPGs, Simulation Games, Survival Games, RPGs, or Virtual Worlds is a huge plus.
Excellent verbal & written communication skills, with experience communicating designs and delivering creative and technical feedback to a diverse group of stakeholders and colleagues.

Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision & Life/AD&D Insurance
401(k)
Maternity & Parental Leave
Full Remote
Flexible PTO
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Benefits
ADP Employee Discount Program
Daily Lunch (in office only)
Free Snacks & Beverages (in office only)