Technical Game Designer

Are you a game developer with an appetite for high quality, 3rd person, Action/Adventure games? Sony PlayStation Studios Creative Arts Development Team provides world-class content, development and services to PlayStation Studios. We offer a full-service production studio with an emphasis in art and animation, as well as previsualization, cinematics, character creation, motion capture, software development, and face/body scanning, tracking and solving.

Responsibilities:

• Support the vision of the Sr. Design staff.
• Partner with the designers and artists to bring gameplay to life.
• Implement existing gameplay systems into a new framework.
• Gameplay scripting using text-based scripting tools.
• Improving existing level scripts for interaction and engagement.
• Ownership and maintenance on gameplay systems such as: Melee combat, ranged combat, gameplay cameras, player navigation, etc.
• General troubleshooting with technical aspects of the Design pipeline.
• Contribute to the design process of gameplay features.
• Prototyping and refining gameplay features.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in computer science, and 1-2+ year’s professional experience.
• Strong C++ programming ability.
• Thorough understanding of 3D math.
• Working experience with additional programming and scripting languages such as Python, LUA, C#, etc.
• Strong and effective communication skills.
• Self-motivated with an ability to take initiative.
• Strong problem-solving ability, and a keen eye for details.
• A passion for playing and developing outstanding games.

Desired qualifications:

• Previous experience shipping a 3rd person action game.
• Console programming experience
• Familiarity with Lisp programming language
• Maya experience

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