Level Designer

About the Position

Level Designer

Keywords Studios, established in Dublin in 1998, now has 70+ studios across Europe, North and South America and Asia with 12,000+ employee strength located across 5 continents and 26 countries. The company provides complete outsourced game art, engineering, testing, audio and localization service for all Console, PC, Handheld and Mobile content, to many of the biggest names in games and interactive entertainment, working on thousands of titles including many of the best-selling titles of the past few years.

Keywords Studios Asia is currently hiring for Singapore based Level Designers.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for finding the fun, injecting personality and adding narrative into our games through their levels.
• Prototypes innovative level and gameplay concepts via 3D modelling, scripting and other tricks of the trade.
• Employs various modelling techniques to block out environments with level progression and the overall game experience in mind.
• Works in close collaboration with the environment artists and game designers, while extending collaboration and bringing solutions to the team across all disciplines.
• Assists in the continued improvement of production pipelines and workflows within the studio.
• Conducts regular playtesting sessions to gather user feedback and subsequent action points.
• Iterates on the gameplay experience to fine-tune it for maximum quality and optimum performance to ultimately ship an incredible product.
• Maintains strong knowledge of trending level design techniques and the capabilities/limitations of these techniques as they relate to project objectives.
• Willingly and regularly share your expertise with peers and expect the same in return.

Requirements

• Experience with Unreal, Unity or Proprietary engines.
• At least 1 published AAA title in a proven level design capacity.
• Confident 3D level prototyping & modelling skills across a range of packages i.e. Max, Maya, Unreal etc.
• Experience with gameplay and level/mission design scripting tools akin to Kismet, Unreal Editor, Lua.
• Effective aptitude in basic programming principles, C# knowledge a plus.
• Firm technical ability relative to game engine technologies.
• Expertise in level design concepts and 2D level layouts.
• Be very receptive to direction and feedback while performing well within a collaborative team environment.
• An enthusiastic gamer with an understanding of both level design and effective game design methodologies, with the ability to clearly and passionately communicate this to others.
• Experience or an appetite for 3rd person action adventure games is an advantage.

We Offer

• Competitive contract opportunities to start immediately.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Opportunity to work on an exciting, new and unannounced project.

About the Company

Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.

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Location: Singapore

Area of Work: Design