Senior Game Designer - Gameplay (PC/Console, Premium)

Interested in working for an exciting company that is redefining the way people play video games? Interested in working for a world class company in a fun, and rewarding environment in Barcelona? Then Gameloft is the company for you!

GAMELOFT, present in 20 countries around Europe, North America and Asia (more than 5,000 employees), is a leading international developer and distributor of video games looking for new talent to reinforce its creation teams.

Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Asphalt 8, Asphalt 9 and Disney SpeedStorm is hiring!

Our Barcelona studio is looking for a Senior Game Designer with extensive experience in Gameplay Systems design:

Responsibilities:

• Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, following briefings.
• Taking care of all aspects of game design: prototyping these mechanics, documenting, implementing in game and fine-tuning them.
• Overall work in creative, benchmarking, documentation and analyzing tasks
• Follow-up, maintenance and continuous improvement of assigned features
• Team coordination: coordinating with art and development teams assigned to the project with the associated producer

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Game Design basic rules (3Cs, gameplay systems, learning curve, difficulty balancing, progression balancing, UI, accessibility…)
• Proven experience in gameplay systems design of PC/Console action genres (sports, racing, combat, shooters, open world, etc.)
• Able to convey ideas concisely as part of a detailed analysis, and to clearly formalize complex concepts and ideas
• Able to illustrate and/or prototype your ideas visually using standard industry production tools (Photoshop, PowerPoint, Figma, Confluence, Sketch-up, 3D Studio Max, Unity, etc.)
• Good documentation skills
• Passion for creating video games
• Knowledge of classic console and freemium mobile game market,
• Motivation and ability to communicate as part of the project development team;
• Able to listen to feedback from other people and constantly critique your work to achieve the best possible quality
• Good level of English

Assets:

• Experience working in racing games
• Experience with multiplayer systems
• Racing fan or gamer
• High visual creativity
• UI skills
• Design / Composition: able to draw sketches and digitally create images or videos