What you will be responsible for

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  Day to day supervision of a team of 5-10 World Designers.
  • Have regular meetings with them both as a group and 1:1
  • Review their work and suggest direction.
  • Manage their time spent on different worlds, and focus within those worlds (gameplay vs geometry, different areas, etc)
  • Ensure their worlds have balanced gameplay, quests, and variety of activities.
• Take ownership of the overarching progression through all worlds that compose the base game.
  • Organize recurring story & character elements.
  • Plan for the player journey in terms of learning new game mechanics and difficulty progression.
  • Manage a consistent theme throughout, commission art from the artists that support current and future world building.
• Manage our “crafting tree” & progression.
  • Edit and balance metadata for all items and objects in game (that specify resources required to craft it), such that the overall tree of possible crafting progression paths is fun and interesting for players.
  • Ensure crafting progression is properly implemented in individual game worlds (making sure resources are available, how they will be crafted, and how they interact with quests in that world).
• Iterate with programmers on new gameplay systems.
  • You identify new gameplay possibilities that would most help the World Designers craft richer experiences, then work with programmers on how to add that to existing systems to maximize WD creativity.
  • As new gameplay systems come online, ensure they are used in worlds.
• Help make everything we do clearly overviewable and documented.
  • Make what your team is working on clearly represented in our issue tracker, manage priorities, assignments and subtasks.
  • Write documentation on our wiki documenting all the above for others.

What we’re looking for

How “design” here is different from other games you may have worked on.

How to apply

Job parameters

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  This job is fully remote.
• Though in theory we welcome applications from anywhere in the world, we are a US based company. Given that this is a Lead role which requires a lot of (interactive) communication with other team members (many of which are Pacific Time and other US time zones), applicants in non-US time zones would probably need to plan to be available core hours from 9AM Pacific Time (when many of our meetings start) to at least 3PM or so, to be able to work directly with everyone. For Europeans that would mean working into the evening.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills required.
• We may want to take you on initially on an hourly, contract basis, but there is a possibility for full-time employment (with health insurance benefits), particularly for US applicants (other countries TBD).
• Hourly rate / salary up for discussion, depending on experience and many other factors. Please let us know if there is a particular range you require.
• This is a full time position. That said, we have the culture that this does not need to mean exactly 40 hrs each week, particularly while you are working hourly: you should feel free to work less hours one week and more another, as your personal schedule, motivation, and other things require.
• You’ll be joining a team of ~12 team members initially, a mix of full-time and part-time. We will likely grow further after you join.
• Length of contract/employment cannot be fully guaranteed, but should be at least 1 year, hopefully much longer!
• Tools we use:
  • Any world building activities are mostly done with in-engine tools.
  • MagicaVoxel for voxel art.
  • VSCode for json metadata editing / gameplay code.
  • Git / GitHub <- used for all our issue tracking, wiki etc.
  • Discord for team chat and video meetings.
  • You will have to be using a Windows machine with a recent/fast GPU.