Freelance Senior Designer
Fox Corporation
Expert Combat Designer
CD PROJEKT SA
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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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 in developing third person action games
- Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude
