Technical Game Designer

3 days ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Jagex Full time

Job Title: Technical Game Designer

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About the Role:

We are seeking a skilled Technical Game Designer to join our team at Jagex. As a Technical Game Designer, you will play a key role in translating game design concepts into technical requirements, ensuring that gameplay mechanics are implemented accurately and effectively.

Responsibilities:

  • Design engaging and diverse content that plays to the game's technical strengths and aids the design of other content by laying strong technical foundations.
  • Proactively offer technical input to the entire team to ensure all content is technically efficient and sound.
  • Your design work will be considerate of business needs and gaps in existing game content.
  • Problem-solving and writing scripts using our in-house language, RuneScript.
  • Handling code for projects of reasonable size and complexity.
  • Learn how exactly certain parts of the game engine function in conjunction with our scripts.

Requirements:

  • Technical experience with scripting or programming. This will be required to get to grips with our in-house scripting language, RuneScript.
  • Experience of LUA, Python, or similar scripting language.
  • An ability to guide, mentor, and inspire other creative people.
  • A passion for games and a desire to break down designs and discuss them with others.
  • Experience working in a game design or development team and can demonstrate an understanding of game development processes such that you can guide improvements to our own development environment.
  • An understanding and ability to utilize version control software, like Perforce.

What We Offer:

  • Salary: £55,000 - £70,000 per annum depending on experience.
  • A generous Perks & Benefits package including:
    • Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
    • Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
    • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
    • Life Insurance.
    • Discretionary annual performance bonus.
    • Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
    • Flexible working hours.
    • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays.

About Us:

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have huge expertise at running games for the long term that we redefine expectations for what evergreen success looks like. We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever fans.



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