Senior Combat Designer

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Montréal, QC
5-7 Years Experience
Gaming
The Role
The Senior Combat Designer will lead the creation of combat gameplay in a narrative-driven sandbox game, mentoring junior designers and establishing best practices. This role involves collaborating with developers to enhance player experience through innovative combat systems and accommodating various play styles.
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Cloud Chamber is looking for a Senior Combat Designer to join our team to create industry-leading combat gameplay. You are an expert in your field and want to create incredible, compelling content. You're also excited by pushing boundaries, and experimental gameplay. We’ve set the stage for a stunning narrative and systems-driven experience, come help us breathe life into this fantastical world. 

Job Details:

  • Work with a team of designers entrusted with implementing combat gameplay content in an immersive sandbox world . 
  • Help solidify best practices and workflows conducive to consistency and deliverability of game content within your team.
  • Participate in the cross-pollination of ideas and sharing of knowledge amongst content creators. 
  • Support and mentor more junior designers in their career progression. 
  • Help build and refine the combat systems development and the gameplay framework for encounters.
  • Collaborate with other developers to build an FPS combat paradigm that is accessible, satisfying, and allows for a high degree of player expression and experimentation within a highly reactive world.
  • Get creative: look beyond direct conflict, accommodate various play-styles and design encounters that can be resolved through player ingenuity.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

  • Shipped one AAA title as a combat designer.
  • Proven experience in executing an idea from concept to ship.
  • Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions oriented.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
  • A desire to work in a closely collaborative environment.
  • Knowledge of current game trends in technology.
  • A deep love of games, with a desire to push the medium forward.
  • Ability to take direction well
  • Humble, open to coaching, an iterative process, and group critique.
  • A positive force multiplier with a great team-player attitude 
  • Mature outlook on work ethics and responsibilities.
  • Intermediate level problem solving skills.
  • Ability to partner with a diverse group of personalities effectively and constructively.
  • Strong organizational and communication skills, with a critical eye for detail.
  • Self-motivated, curious, and collaborative.
  • Flexible and collaborative mindset and attitude.
  • Champion of high standards, pushing for progress, embracing change, and challenging the status quo.
  • Uncompromising ethics and unwavering integrity.
  • Willing to uphold the values of Cloud Chamber.

We are Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world. 

We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking.  Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives.

We’re currently making the next BioShock. Our love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.

If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us we’d love to meet you! Join us in creating worlds that move people.

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The Company
HQ: Novato, CA
180 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Notre studio existe pour créer des jeux vidéo uniques, divertissants et réfléchis, destinés au monde entier.

Our studio exists to craft unique, entertaining and thoughtful videogame experiences that engage the world.

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