Combat Designer
CD PROJEKT SA
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $143,000 - $218,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
LuaPython
About the role
- Work on key systems such as targeting, combat metric, input queuing, player abilities and progression, aggro management (ticket system for AI), enemy behavior tree, enemy ambient behavior, and balancing
- Develop and refine our approach to combat and foundational combat systems
- 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
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in the game industry
- Prior experience shipping a core game as a combat designer
- Experience developing third person melee action games is required
- Experience in developing third person action games
- Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude
- Nice to Haves: Scripting experience, be it visual (such as Blueprint) or text-based (such as Python, Lua, or C#)
- Unreal Engine 5 experience
- Experience working with motion capture, preparing shot lists, and collaborating directly with animators
Benefits
- Company-paid medical healthcare (dental, vision, and mental)
- Free mental health support, including access to counseling, psychiatric care, and a variety of well-being webinars
- Paid leave — 20 days of holiday per year (26 days after two years)
- 401K with employer matching
- Gym Membership Reimbursement
- Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain
- RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events
- Flexible working hours
- Trainings, lectures, and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available
- A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team
- Dog-friendly office — bring your pooch with you and look after them while working!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
combat designbehavior treesanimation graphsscriptingBlueprintPythonLuaC#game balancingplayer abilities
Soft skills
curiositykindnesspositive attitudeprofessionalismcommunication