Senior Level Designer

About Dreams Quest:

Dreams Quest is a diversified entertainment company building fantasy and dream-like content that is both breathtaking and adventurous, driving the soul to learn and explore even more.

As a games studio, we are developing an RPG open-world mobile game with a deep story and mythology and a narrative designed to give players a long journey of exploration, quests and experiences.

We are seeking passionate people who love to create new ideas, collaborate with and respect others, take ownership and responsibility for their work, are determined to find solutions, and love what they do, and have fun doing it.

Na jakie zadania (obowiązki)?

About the Role:

As a Level Designer you will be responsible for creating an immersive playable environment based upon the mythology, narrative, mechanics and designs. You will be creating game levels block outs, level mapping out complexity of game play, defining how activities will be played within various locations, and optimising the gameplay levels using Unity.

Dreams Quest is looking for a passionate Level Designer to help us properly plan and test all mechanics/times/interactions and build an appropriate environment (blockout), prepares the environment in a simplified version and places all the necessary mechanics in consultation with the programmers/developers and Games Designer to check the operation of the mechanics and the environment before filling the environment with all nice-looking assets.

Responsibilities:

• Work with 3D artists, narrative/game designers to manage the design of the levels through the production pipeline from concept to implementation.

• Tuning the levels for game play aligned to the vision from conceptualization, prototyping, building and scripting including difficulty and accessibility 

• Ensuring the pacing of levels for gameplay aligns to the narrative and difficulty of levelling up the character and overall gaming experience

• Create level layouts, hot spots, and points of interest (POIs) for players to explore according to the themes and quests

• Prototype the environment, establish the layouts, blockouts, grey box, and suggest ways of using the interactive and non-interactive elements to create the desired emotions

• Develop solid design documentation for level progression (flow), layouts, and 3D block-outs for in-engine playtesting

• Collaboration, Coordination and Planning

  • Collaborate with the art, narrative, visual effects team members to ensure highest quality outputs and consensus amongst others

  • Solutions focussed: anticipating, identifying and articulating areas requiring attention to mitigate risks and to develop solutions

Jakiego specjalisty szukamy?

Qualification:

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a level design role (game levels, level layouts, drawing maps, architecture, interacting with objects)

• Must have worked on at least 1 (preferably 2) published games as a level designer

• Experience in Unity 3D, Blender is a must with basic knowledge of texturing.

• Experience working in 3D environments, Strong ability to create grey Box 

• Strong understanding of level and game design fundamentals.

• Open and creative mind that is passionate about game concepts and innovative to create new concepts and ideas to make gameplay exciting

• Must be a self-motivated and energetic team player with a very strong work ethic and teamplayer

• Passion for creating amazing environments in line with rapidly developing technology

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with weekly builds. Preferably with experience working in Agile prototyping and building.

• Proficient in English

Dlaczego u nas przyjemno pracować ?

What we are offering

• 100% remote work in an international environment on a prestigious project

• Working with global, creative, friendly and talented teams

• 15 paid leave days per annum 

• Salary adequate to experience and skills