Senior Character Combat Designer

Guerrilla is looking for a driven Senior Combat Designer to help create Playable Characters that are fun and memorable to play in combat. We are searching for a candidate with a keen eye for detail, who can bring animations, input timing, visual and sound effects together into a cohesive experience for gamers of multiple skill levels.

What you will do

As a Senior Character Combat Designer at Guerrilla, you will:

• Work closely with Lead Combat Designer to craft unique abilities that are exciting, offer tactical choices and create cooperative opportunities for multiple player characters while pushing the overall game experience forward with the rest of the team
• Partner with animators, gameplay programmers in a multi-disciplinary team to develop character abilities from concept to release
• Use metrics, player feedback and a multitude of diverse analytics to improve and refine the design over time

Who you are

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have solid experience as a Senior Combat Designer especially in melee combat systems
• Have worked on at least one AAA game where you were heavily involved in player combat mechanics and abilities.
• Have experience with visual scripting languages (Blueprint, Node Graphs, and so on).
• Are comfortable working with animation systems and familiar with the challenges of state replication.
• Have a passion for, and deep understanding of, third-person combat mechanics and have thoroughly played a wide variety of different titles.
• Like working with hands-on prototypes.
• Understanding of multiplayer constraints.
• Are comfortable with providing and receiving constructive criticism.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Are self-motivated and take initiative.

Please note: Unless stated otherwise, our vacancies are based on-site, in our studio in Amsterdam. For qualified candidates, we offer visa, relocation and immigration support. Depending on the role, we do offer hybrid work models allowing our employees to work from home one or more days per week.

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