Lead Activity Designer

3 days ago

Santa Monica, California, United States Absurd Ventures Full time
Job Title: Lead Activity Designer

At Absurd Ventures, we're seeking a talented Lead Activity Designer to join our team. As a key member of our design team, you'll be responsible for creating engaging and immersive gameplay experiences that bring our narrative worlds to life.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement systems-driven, highly replayable content that captivates players and fuels the metagame.
  • Establish a vision for game modes, open world activities, and challenging endgame content that serves the narrative and creative direction.
  • Collaborate with fellow design leads to craft experiences that seamlessly integrate into a living open world and authored narrative missions.
  • Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and push the boundaries of gameplay-driven storytelling in activity design.
  • Rally designers, engineers, artists, and external co-dev partners to deliver playable progress at regular intervals as part of a rapid iterative process.
  • Incorporate feedback from peers, playtests, and senior leadership to refine, rebalance, and pivot as the game demands.
Qualifications:
  • 5 or more years of experience designing content and/or gameplay for action games.
  • Deep understanding of casual and hardcore player needs, with the ability to design welcoming and challenging content for both.
  • Narrative sensibilities and vision to design experiences that immerse players in an authored fictional world, while empowering them to write their own stories.
  • Recent experience with direct implementation in the form of level design, visual scripting, balance tuning, or other individual contributions.
  • Experience developing a broad range of activities and minigames that appeal to both a core and a casual audience.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
  • Innovative thinker with creative problem-solving skills who thrives in a collaborative team environment.
About Absurd Ventures:

Absurd Ventures is a media company creating new IP across all platforms and for all formats. We're building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a variety of genres, without regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation; video games and other interactive content; books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts.

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