World Designer [Fixed Term]

1 мес. назад

SwedenEuropeSeniorHybrid

terrain sculptingmaterial paintingspatial designgame mechanics

Senior World Designer responsible for creating immersive open worlds through terrain sculpting, material painting, and strategic placement of features for gameplay enhancement.

О компании

The role As a Senior World Designer, you will work on designing and execution of an immersive open world, shaping landscapes, biomes, landmarks, roads, and rivers to enhance exploration and gameplay. Your work will include terrain sculpting, material painting, and strategic placement of key locations to ensure a seamless and engaging experience. You will translate high-level world design into actionable features, ensuring clear scope, priorities, and technical feasibility. You will oversee milestone progress, balancing creative vision with production constraints while collaborating closely with Art, Tech, and Level Design teams to refine and optimise world-building efforts. Your expertise in spatial design, composition, and game mechanics will help create a living, interconnected world tha

Требования

You are a self motivated developer that enjoys ownership and are not afraid to wear several hats
You have a keen eye for composition, visual aesthetics and distribution. Both in terms of layouts of environments and how different layers of gameplay work together in harmony.
You’re someone with previous experience as a World Designer (or equivalent) in the game industry, ideally having worked on an open-world title.
You have great understanding of dependencies and associated workflows of other departments

Другое

Typical tasks include; planning regions, terrain editing, roads, waterways, placement and distribution of POI’s and landmarks, creating spaces and paths through them according to specified gameplay metrics.
Work closely with Lead, Product Owner and other teams to understand the game and its needs, constraints, and intentions to design adapted solutions to realize the project's vision.
Help identify problems and improve workflows both with the toolset and content pipeline/production (i.e. structure/building prefabs, asset collections, layout templates etc.)