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Game Designer
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
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Company Description
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!
Job Description
As a Game Designer at Ubisoft Montréal, you will work across a range of game systems and mechanics for a multiplayer sandbox shooter built with Unreal Engine. The game combines player-versus-player and player-versus-environment gameplay (PvPvE). You’ll design ways for players to interact and make choices that matter. Throughout production, you’ll adjust and balance your designs while considering both the details and the overall player experience.
What you’ll do
- Design game mechanics and systems aligned with the game’s design and creative direction
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate your assigned features
- Build prototypes in Unreal Engine and assess their performance
- Adapt your designs to technical and production constraints
- Find solutions to issues affecting game features
- Create and maintain design documentation for collaborating teams
- Refine features through testing, adjustment, and balancing
Qualifications
What you bring to the team
- Apply deep game design expertise across different systems and mechanics
- Use Unreal Engine, along with word processors and spreadsheets
- Bring thoughtful design skills to a range of gameplay problems
- Demonstrate knowledge of the AAA video game market
- Bring experience shipping AAA games as an asset for this role
- Share your enthusiasm for building high-quality AAA games
- Communicate and present your ideas clearly in writing and conversation
- Bring empathy, collaboration, curiosity, resourcefulness, and flexibility
What to send our way
- Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experience
- Share examples of your game design projects as files or links
More about this job
Responsibilities
You will design and balance game systems and mechanics for a multiplayer sandbox shooter using Unreal Engine. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate features and maintain design documentation throughout the production cycle.
Requirements
Candidates should possess deep game design expertise and proficiency with Unreal Engine, along with experience in the AAA video game market. Strong communication skills and the ability to solve complex gameplay problems are essential for this role.
Skills
- Game design
- Unreal Engine
- Multiplayer game design
- Sandbox shooter design
- PvPvE gameplay
- Prototyping
- Game mechanics
- System design
- Technical design
- Design documentation
- Balancing
- Cross-functional collaboration
- AAA game development
- Communication
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Categories
- Creative & Media
- Software
- Technology
Keywords
- Game Designer
- Ubisoft
- Unreal Engine
- Multiplayer
- Sandbox shooter
- PvPvE
- Game mechanics
- Prototyping
- AAA games
- Game design documentation
- System design
- Production
- Cross-functional teams
- Gameplay balancing
- Technical constraints