SENIOR LEVEL DESIGNER

Big Huge Games is extremely excited to build an RPG team around Ken Rolston (Lead Designer: Morrowind, Oblivion). We're looking for a Senior Level Designer to help create an exciting, visually stimulating world for the player to explore. If you have a track record of excellence in the RPG or MMORPG arena, and are excited about working on a new and original IP, you should at least listen to what Ken's got to say...

Big Huge Games is a company that values team skills as much as it values technical skills. By sticking to this "core value," we have created a fun and energetic workplace with a passion for AAA game development. We realize the key to our continued success hinges on nurturing a talented and motivated team that takes great pride in their accomplishments.

Job Purpose and Responsibilities:

A Senior Level Designer works closely with the Art and Design teams to develop cohesive and compelling levels, with an eye toward layout, pacing, and storytelling. Responsibilities include:

• Defining layout, flow, and scenic viewpoints of landscape and interior locations
• Defining location storytelling (i.e., narratives implied by observable natural, historical, and cultural features of the location)
• Defining pacing and levels of interactivity while traveling through the location
• Building locations using internal tools
• Dressing and cluttering locations for pleasing visual and navigational rhythms
• Rigging built locations with scripted encounters and interactive objects
• Placing creatures and defining their behaviors using internal tools and scripts
• Testing and evaluating built locations
• Managing a systems design and game balance team day-to-day.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years professional game development experience
• Minimum of one AAA title shipped as a Senior Level Designer (experience with consoles and/or RPG experience a plus
• Familiarity with 3D tools used to create game levels
• Experience implementing complex game events using a scripting language (LUA, Python, etc.)
• Broad knowledge and critical understanding of RPGs, how they are built, and what makes them compelling.

In addition to competitive salaries, Big Huge Games offers an extremely attractive benefits package, including:

• 401(k) plan
• Paid vacation, sick leave, personal days and holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance plan for you and your dependents
• Employer funded life insurance and disability coverage

Contact Info:

Please send resume and cover letter to designjobs@bighugegames.com.

We encourage applicants to attach samples of level design documents or sample levels created in common game editors. Limit total of attachments to 3mb or less. Note in the subject line "Senior Level Designer". Please do not send items via US Mail.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

We're proud of our creative environment which includes fun office perks such as...

• Pool table
• Ping pong table
• Full-size bar (modeled after a local Irish Pub)
• Arcade machine (100's of classics installed)
• Free drinks (sodas, tea, and freshly ground coffee via two fancy latte machines)
• Biometric hand-scanner (Physical office keys? That's so twentieth century.)
• Console gaming area (PS3, 360, and Wii)
• Continuously updated Game Library stocked with 100's of titles available for borrow anytime
• 150 gallon saltwater aquarium