Lead Game Designer

3 weeks ago

Truro, United Kingdom Aardvark Swift Full time

AntiMatter Games are looking for a Lead Game Designer to join the growing team, working on IGI Origins.

As a Lead Game Designer, you will act as the key driver and agent of change to improve processes, prototype new tools, example levels and workflows for the Game Design department. You’ll also be working across development disciplines and leading, coaching and organising your design team to transform high level vision into design.

**Your responsibilities**
- Be the point person, key advocate, and voice for Game Design in the studio
- Collaborate across disciplines to uphold and execute the game vision
- Communicate the game’s design to multi-discipline teams across the studio
- Support and mentor your team members
- Identify and manage risks within the schedule with Production
- Gather, process, and appropriately implement feedback from internal and external playtesting
- Write documentation related to the designs, for support and training

**The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role**
- 4+ years’ experience in design roles working on console or PC titles
- Shipped one or more PC or Console titles, ideally FPS or action/adventure/stealth games
- Experienced in the use of Unreal Engine 4 or an equivalent engine
- An advanced understand of developer tools & software
- Solid knowledge of game design principles
- Experience of leading and supporting Designers
- An interest in creating intriguing gameplay
- Effective communication skills and organisational abilities
- A calm, methodical and logical approach to challenges and ambiguity
- Analytical approach to problem solving
- Comfortable working to deadlines
- Enthusiasm for ongoing learning and self-development
- Experience with JIRA/Agile process would be beneficial

AntiMatter Games is Cornwall’s largest game development studio and the team behind Rising Storm, PC Gamer’s ‘Multiplayer Game of the Year’, and the acclaimed sequel Rising Storm 2: Vietnam.

Working for Antimatter means working on exciting and innovative video games in a studio that has created a strong company culture, where employees are encouraged to have an excellent work-life balance and the team is supported to become the best developers they can be, whatever their department.

UK Employees will receive Private Health Insurance, a BUPA Cash Plan and subscription to PerkBox, which includes hundreds of perks, freebies, and discounts on its platform.

Based in waterside offices in Truro, the UK's most Southerly city, AntiMatter Games' offices are within a few minutes’ walk of Cornwall's shopping, culture and eating hub. Accessible by bus or train, and with private car parking, or for the more adventurous, you could kayak to work Perfectly positioned to explore the tranquil South Coast or the crashing Atlantic North Coast, offering an unrivalled life/work experience for those making games in the UK.

On weekends and evenings, the team can be found cycling, surfing, kayaking, swimming, beachcombing, walking, enjoying live music or capturing beautiful sights by camera. On rainy days you might find a friendly game of Dungeons & Dragons or a book to read by the fireplace. Sometimes they also play video games

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