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Technical Designer

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Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime".  This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands.  To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago. 

 

Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime".  This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands.  To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago. 

Mob Entertainment is seeking a Technical Designer to join the ranks. The goal in this role is to drive the creation and improvement of core gameplay and technical systems and tools highly tuned for the level of rich feedback and player immersion that helped define our games.

In this role you’ll be responsible for prototyping gameplay using Unreal Engine’s scripting language and C++, which could range from combat encounters to narrative sequences to player mechanics and enemy behaviors. Then working across departments to bring your prototypes into production and polish your work for release.

 

As a technical designer, you’ll act as the bridge between Engineering and Design teams, taking ownership of complicated gameplay sequences, or creating complicated systems and making the process simple for other designers after you. You’ll interact with engineering by bringing the design perspective to discussions of features, tooling and debugging processes, helping ensure these systems are readable to non-engineers, as well as owning in-game implementation of features and systems. You’ll often be responsible for owning your own features, be it through prototyping and creating your own, or taking designs from others and handling implementation.

What you will do:

  • Taking ownership of and prototyping, implementing, and managing AI behaviors, interactive objects, narrative sequences, and gameplay scenarios.
  • Collaborate with the design team to conceptualize, implement, tune, and balance gameplay mechanics and systems, as well as prototype new features.
  • Collaborate with animation, programming, and art teams to ensure the timely delivery of necessary assets and code for your assigned areas.
  • Finding and solving inefficiencies in implementation processes, such as taking code blocks and turning them to simple nodes.

What skills you will use:

  • Have worked professionally in Unreal Engine 4 / 5.
  • Ability to program in C++ or similar programming/scripting language.
  • Extremely capable with Blueprint Visual scripting experience.
  • Understanding of vector math, basic understanding of performant code.
  • Able to give and receive critical feedback constructively and gracefully, and a constant desire to improve.
  • Familiar with core Unreal Engine subsystems, including AI architecture (Behavior Trees, State Trees, EQS etc), Gameplay Ability System, Sequencer
  • Understanding of game feel, how we use different modes of feedback to elevate the player experience.
  • Ability to brainstorm, iterate, and find creative solutions while being receptive to design direction.
  • Proactively seek feedback, driven to improve, and graciously able to give feedback to others.
  • Ability to work interdisciplinarily among different departments.

Bonus Skills:

  • Experience developing first-person horror puzzle games.
  • Understanding of narrative principles, and conveying emotion through gameplay
  • Broad base of knowledge in different systems, materials, animations, anything that can help push prototypes and systems to polished states very quickly.
  • Experience with more technical systems and concepts such as replication
  • Experience with the following areas of design
    • Behavior Trees
    • Animation
      • Montages
      • Anim Blueprints
      • Montage Notifies
    • Level Sequences
    • Enemy & boss design
    • Player Character design

 

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