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System Designer (Aftershock)
Fox
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Description
FoxNext Games is looking for an experienced combat system designer to join our Marvel super hero, mobile, strategy RPG team! The ideal candidate will understand how game balance, controls, and aesthetics interact to create a compelling combat experience in the context of a free-to-play mobile RPG. Additionally, the candidate will be an avid player of RPG's and strategy games across multiple platforms, console and mobile, with a deep understanding of social and free-to-play frameworks.
Responsibilities:
• Work with balance designers to exercise and expand the possibility space within the combat system and economy
• Craft character abilities that create strategic depth and demonstrate character personality through the action
• Work across disciplines to guide content creation, including animation, VFX, icons, and engineering needs.
• Write flavor and gameplay text for characters and items
• Maintain a deep understanding of game modes, economic systems, and upcoming features to maximize character value.
• Maintain a deep understanding of a wide variety of player motivations based on player type and game factors
Qualifications
• Strong aesthetic, pacing, and balance comprehension
• Strong UI design skills and understanding of resource systems
• Strong sensitivity to gameplay and social game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game
• Familiarity with probability, statistical concepts, and expected value calculations
• Strong analytical and formal thinking, able to break problems down in their key variables and identify the relations between them
• Previous experience as a combat or level designer
• Experience with game engines and tools, such as Unity or Unreal
• 3+ years of experience shipping AAA console, PC, or mobile titles in design roles
• Ability to direct, collaborate, and speak critically on game systems, story, art and content development
• A deep passion for strategy and RPG games
• A strong understanding of modern mobile game development
• Experience using spreadsheet tools such as Excel and Google Docs
• Fluency in English
Preferred Qualifications
• A deep understanding of social, mobile, and free-to-play game systems and economies
• Previous experience leading a design team
• A passion for Marvel comics and movies
• Experience with scripting, C#, object-oriented programming, and/or javascript
• Shipped or supported live ops for 1+ games targeted for mobile platforms or built on the Unity engine
• Experience working with databases, Perforce source control, and .json files
About Aftershock
Aftershock, a division of FoxNext games, is on a never-ending mission to create unforgettable games for mobile devises. The studio was built by passionate game makers dedicated to crafting playful, smart, addictively fun experiences. Aftershock has a number of projects in development including an all new mobile game based on the expansive Marvel Universe, a massively multiplayer mobile strategy game for James Cameron's Avatar franchise.
About FoxNext
FoxNext is driving immersive, next generation entertainment experiences in the areas of augmented and virtual reality, mobile, console/PC games and location-based entertainment across Twentieth Century Fox Films and Fox Networks Group. The division consists of FoxNext Games, FoxNext VR Studio and FoxNext Destinations. Fox has a successful track record of creating critically acclaimed games including The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Angry Birds Rio, Alien:Isolation, Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, Ice Age Adventures, and Sugar Smash: Book of Life. Aftershock, a division of FoxNext Games, has a number of projects in development including an all new mobile game based on the expansive Marvel Universe, and a massively multiplayer mobile strategy game for James Cameron's Avatar franchise. A AAA PC/console game set in the world of Avatar is in development with Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft Studio. FoxNext VR Studio is in development on Alien and Planet of the Apes VR experiences. FoxNext Destinations will further lead the development of location based entertainment business with the success of the 2017 THEA award winner Springfield, USA and 2008 THEA award winner The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando, Avatar: Discover Pandora, a new interactive exhibition inspired by the breathtaking environments and inspirational cultures of Pandora, and the development of the 20th Century Fox World theme park in Malaysia.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.