Job description
What you will do
Studio Firefly is looking for a Level Designer to join our team in Bucharest. You will be responsible for developing full levels and work closely with the Lead Designer and Product Owner to ensure that the game vision is represented in your creations.
You will use your Level Design skills to develop highly engaging gameplay experiences. You will work with the Zombie Gunship Survival and Nonstop Knight franchises, requiring an understanding of how systems integrate into your levels and how a single level can generate a variety of game experiences through linear campaign and event design. Your competence, creativity, collaboration and constant iteration, will ensure that players get the most out of our market leading IP.
You would be welcomed to an open, creative environment where you’ll find opportunities to help shape the games we make and collaborate with a passionate team on some of the most popular mobile franchises in the games industry.
If you share our passion for innovative and immersive gameplay experiences, our Design team is the perfect place for you!
Responsibilities:
- Create layouts, missions and scripted events under the Lead Designer’s guidance
- Ensure memorable, dynamic and repayable levels through close collaboration with System Design, Art, Narrative and other disciplines
- Communicate your designs to the team and ensure your work is in line with the game vision
- Feedback on content produced by other disciplines and integrate those into your levels as the project progresses
- Evaluate the gameplay with the team and provide feedback and solutions to help improve and fine-tune the game
- Participate in play tests and creating work items based on play testing feedback
- Manage and prioritise bugs related to your levels
Job requirements
Requirements:
- Experience with shipping projects (professional or amateur)
- A working knowledge of a professional Level Design tool
- Experience with scripting languages or visual scripting tools
- Ability to prioritise and organise work to meet the intended objectives
- Ability to creatively excel within professional, collaborative, and commercial game development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to convey abstract concepts
- Ability to constructively review and feedback the work of other team members
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced live operations development environment
Your Base
Our production studio is headquartered in Bucharest and we have another sister studio in Cluj, Romania, housing multiple teams across many disciplines including Marketing, PR, Sales and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Bucharest is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create some of the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us! Studio Firefly and Flaregames have been leading the way developers think about LiveOps for years now — as a leading LiveOps specialist and Mobile publisher, our teams have created some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking, and beloved entertainment franchises in the industry. Ask anyone who works within our group what their favourite thing about it is, and they’ll tell you it’s the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure, and resources, but our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee’s brilliance.
We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us grow our production studio in Bucharest. If you are motivated to learn and grow as part of the fast-paced, global mobile games industry, we would very much like to meet you.
COVID-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.
