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Join Giant Sparrow as a Senior Gameplay Designer to craft intimate and uniquely alive interactions with wild animals for our new game. This fully remote, hands-on role seeks a designer-programmer hybrid with an experimental mindset to prototype mesmerizing 3D gameplay and mentor junior talent.
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Join Giant Sparrow to create mesmerizing and intimate gameplay experiences centered around interacting with wild animals. This highly creative, hands-on role is for a designer-programmer hybrid who will build rapid 3D gameplay prototypes and champion game feel. You will be a core contributor to a small, senior team, shaping the game's direction and mentoring junior designers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional game development experience
- Strong ability to build gameplay prototypes (C++ experience preferred, or strong C# background with willingness to learn C++)
- Proven experience creating expressive, “juicy” gameplay interactions
- Experience designing 3D gameplay spaces
- Have built non-standard gameplay systems — something beyond familiar combat or genre mechanics
- Have an experimental mindset and are comfortable working in early, messy prototype phases
- See games as holistic experiences and appreciate that creating moments that really pop for players often requires an infuriating amount of inter-disciplinary collaboration to make everything in the world behave just so
- If outside of US timezones, day includes at least 4 hours of overlap with the team between 9am - 6pm, PT.
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