Gardens

Game Engineer

• Work in Unreal Engine, using Blueprints and other tools to design, prototype, and iterate on player abilities.
• Implement and maintain gameplay features from early concept through polish in close collaboration with engineering and other technical design partners.
• Playtest, tune, and refine abilities that influence combat, traversal, exploration, social interactions, and player expression to support engaging and readable multiplayer experiences.
• Align with leadership and management on creative goals and desired outcomes.
• Own the design and iteration of player-facing abilities and modifiers tied to weapons, tools, items, armors, and related systems.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary partners such as engineering, animation, audio, art, and VFX to align abilities with combat, traversal, progression, social goals, and technical constraints.
• Balance and tune gameplay features with an understanding of multiplayer dynamics and emergent player and multiplayer behavior.
• Advocate for the player experience, ensuring abilities feel intuitive, expressive, and fun over time.

Technical Gameplay Designer – Player Abilities, Combat

• Prototype, iterate, and maintain creature behaviors and abilities for both combat and non-combat scenarios in an online multiplayer environment.
• Own the implementation and continuous maintenance of creature behaviors using Unreal Behaviors Trees and Blackboards from prototyping to polish.
• Collaborate with engineers, artists, animators, and audio designers to bring your creature designs to the player experience.
• Own creatures, their abilities, and their behaviors while staying aligned with gameplay design and leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary partners to align creature design with art, narrative, 3C's gameplay, and technical requirements.
• Balance and tune difficulty and behavior to create engaging encounters for multiplayer situations.
• Advocate for the player experience, ensuring creature interactions are fun, surprising, and memorable.
• Partner with Animation to tune movement sets and provide pathfinding logic to ensure locomotion feels grounded and purposeful.
• Act as a key bridge between Art/Animation and Engineering to troubleshoot visual state logic and optimize creature performance.

Technical Gameplay Designer – Player Abilities, Combat

Gameplay Designer, Creatures