Senior Gameplay Designer
Mediatonic
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own the implementation of major systems from start to finish, driving the vision forward in a cohesive way with the rest of the product
- Be the go-to person for the implementation of complex content that stretches the capabilities of existing systems and that requires heavy artist/designer/programmer interaction
- Be an advocate for player experience and create compelling user stories
- Lead by example to set the quality bar for design; Work closely with production to identify, prioritize, assign, and evaluate design work
- Actively participate in big-picture decisions and ensure the design team focuses on the correct elements to achieve superior results
- Drive collaborative and iterative prototyping, both paper-based and in-game
- Attend playtests, provide feedback, and identify practical solutions to problems
- 5+ years of game design experience with multiple shipped titles
- Mastery of visual scripting languages, preferably Blueprints
- A broad, cross-disciplinary skill set is highly valued since we have a lean team
- Ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others
- Create clear and concise design specs
- Strong verbal communication of ideas to the team
- Creating your own functional prototypes
- Experience with network replication
- Familiarity with Fortnite and Epic Games suite of products
- Player first, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
- Writing NPC scripts for LEGO Fortnite NPCS
- Collaborating with LEGO Fortnite Gameplay Designers
- Working directly with LEGO Fortnite Gameplay Designers to create and maintain compelling characters
- Providing naming support for cosmetic content as need
- Attending team meetings and playtests
- Assisting in LEGO Fortnite cinematic script production
- Providing writing support across projects if and when required
- Experience with comedic writing, and a drive to create uniquely funny scripts
- Ability to write in multiple styles and formats including in-game vo scripts and written assets, animated shorts, trailers, video content, and stage demos
- Collaborative mindset and a willingness to iterate rapidly
- Experience delivering quality content on a tight deadline
- The ability to demonstrate an understanding of Fortnite's tone and style
- Quest design experience
- Script pitching experience
- Experience with the Unreal Engine
- Live game experience
- Copy editing experience