Electronic Arts and Maxis are looking for a Lead Designer to work on a future product based on a fast-paced multiplayer action game focusing on heavy customizability. I can only think this may be for an upcoming Spore spinoff (wish I could say for an upcoming expansion). I’d love to say this is for a new I.P. altogether, but at this stage they may be prototyping and sharing ideas.
Here’s the information below, you can visit EA Jobs to apply if you meet the requirements:
Maxis Studio is looking for an experienced Lead Designer to help develop a fast-paced multiplayer action game focused on heavy customizability. Candidates must have good communication skills and be responsible for setting design requirements and priorities.
Requirements and Responsibilities:
- 4+ years of game design experience on 2+ shipped games.
- Love for competitive online games.
- Lead the design of game-wide mechanics, player experiences and progression through unique concepts and solutions.
- Drive the macro design and maintain the quality bar of core game mechanics.
- Communicate concisely written game design and deliver visual documents to the team.
- Work closely with engineers and artists to iterate on gameplay mechanics.
- Lead design discussions that produce decisions and results.
- Passionately articulate goals and build a cohesive design team for a dynamic work environment.
- Experience working hands-on during the pre-production phase and transitioning designs to production.
Pluses:
- Passion for PC games.
- Critical thinking, breakdown of strengths and weaknesses for competitive games.
- Thorough knowledge of the latest design trends, philosophies, tools and techniques.
- Able to diagnose problems in complex systems and suggest improvements.
- Experience with scripting and data implementation.
- Vocal desire to contribute in a highly creative environment and provide unique concepts and solutions.
- Strong understanding of action and RPG mechanics such as character attributes, damage, range, cool downs, modifiers.
- Possess strong math and analytical skills.
- RPG, combat, or card collection game design experience.
- Level or systems design experience.
- Be able to prioritize, meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
Source: EA Jobs
