Senior Combat Designer

Onward Play is looking for a Senior Combat Designer to help drive the vision and implementation of the combat experience in our client’s action game. Everything from placing I-Frames and damage volumes, tweaking damage-scales, etc. You will work across disciplines, from art and animation to engineering and production, to make our game’s combat fun, satisfying and scalable from the early to late game. The ideal candidate will have experience with 3^rd person fantasy/sci-fi melee and magic combat.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement combat mechanics that are engaging and immersive for players.
• Pitch, prototype, implement, balance and ship a wide variety of enemy types, including core enemies and bosses.
• Tune the combat experience at the micro level: animation lengths, i-frames, damage volumes, etc.
• Implement each character type’s combat behavior using techniques such as behavior trees, animation graphs and blueprint.
• Work with character art, animation, VFX and audio to ship characters with state-of-the-art levels of polish.
• Help balance combat-related systems such as player leveling and experience, weapons, and damage.
• Produce documentation to communicate your proposals and designs, and work with production to ensure they can be implemented with the time and resources available.

• Prior experience on a shipping game.
• 3^rd person fantasy/sci-fi melee and magic combat exp needed
• Strong understanding of game mechanics and systems design.
• Experience working with Unreal 4/5.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as C# or Lua.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for video games and a desire to create engaging player experiences.

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision plans available - for employees and dependents.
• 401K with matching
• Company paid long & short-term disability plans, and life insurance.
• Profit sharing plan
• Unlimited PTO and flexible schedule