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COMBAT DESIGNER - Help us take players deep into our next AAA game!

Cold Symmetry · Design

Remote scopeAnywhere in USA and Canada

Type · levelFull-Time · Mid-Level

Salary80,000 - 130,000 USD

SkillsCombat Design, Game Design, Unreal

Combat Design Game Design Unreal systems Prototyping

Who is Cold Symmetry?

Cold Symmetry was founded in 2017 by a core team of four, and is best known for our debut title Mortal Shell. The studio is composed of AAA creators that bring their passion and curiosity for making games. Our distributed development model allows us to work with the brightest and most talented people in the industry around the world.

Why you’re ready to join Cold Symmetry

You have no time for bureaucracy and process-heavy pipelines. As a creator, you thrive at studios where you are given the freedom to run and own your features without micromanagement. We trust you. We know you’re great. We know what you can do… so let’s create the next visually-stunning AAA game together, and most importantly: Let’s have FUN doing it, together.

Your Impact on the Team:

You’ll be joining our project in the prototyping phase and contribute key ideas to the overall feel and play of the game
You’ll work closely with Engineering & Animation; developing key AI & Animation systems within UE5
Design AND implement! You’ll be extremely hands-on in the implementation of our Combat systems, AI and combat scenarios
Push the boundaries of next generation AAA combat!
Maintain and tune AI combat behaviour and parameters through to complete projection
Lead experimentation, playtests and testing on the combat systems. We run a lot of playtests and these iterations will hugely impact the fun factor
You’ll make the game fun and engaging, but you’ll be able to explain WHY to the rest of the team
Work closely with a small but highly talented Production team to create schedules for Design
Documentation! You’ll be clearly communicating design goals and process for features, levels and systems

Skills and Abilities We’re Looking For:

3+ years experience working on games, with one AAA title shipped preferred
Ability to work autonomously, without micromanagement but still deliver on goals
Ability to make mistakes but learn from them. We know you won’t get everything perfect every time and we don’t expect you to
Deep understanding of game mechanics, combat systems and AI NPC design
Solid understand of game design processes and methodologies
Previous experience taking a game from concept through to launch and being able to contribute to the core of the early design loop
Experience working in Unreal and next gen consoles

Do I need to meet All Criteria to Apply?

Nope! If you share our mission of creating AAA games in a distributed and high caliber team, we want to connect and learn more about your curiosities, passions and experience! contact us at: jobs@coldsymmetry.com

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About Cold Symmetry

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Cold Symmetry is the studio that created Mortal Shell - a successful, award-winning indie title crafted by a small and passionate team. As we grow bigger and aim to produce better games, we want to preserve our culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We want to fill our team with people like us who set ambitious goals, are not afraid to take creative risks, and pour their heart and soul into making a game they love, and ultimately, would love to play.

We are a distributed studio and all of our positions are fully remote. We are considering candidates from anywhere in the world as long as you're really good at what you do. What matters to us is that you're competent, resourceful, take extreme ownership in your specialized area, and have a burning desire to get things done.

We’re hiring talented individuals now to work on our ambitious new IP. You’ll be joining a project in production with well-scoped goals and milestones. We’re a small team of industry veterans striving to make something incredible. Come join us.

If you have a passion for building and playing melee combat action rpgs, we want to hear from you.

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