Viziverse is creating a whole new genre of camera-based casual mobile 3D video games. We're an exciting new startup founded by an experienced tech entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School.

Game Designers create fun for everyone, from hardcore competitors to casual weekend gamers. We are looking for a highly skilled Game Designer to help us create fun gameplay for our upcoming games in Unity. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating game mechanics, applying game design techniques, creating storylines that are optimized for mobile devices, working with Game Artists and Engineers, brainstorming for new ideas, iterate upon those ideas to meet our development needs. The candidate must be familiar with Unity and have a strong understanding of game design pipelines.

What You'll Do:

Design, develop, and implement engaging end-game activities, challenges, and experiences that offer long-lasting entertainment, ensuring they are challenging, rewarding, and not overly frustrating. This includes conceptualizing a wide range of activities, events, and challenges to provide diverse gameplay experiences
Work collaboratively with designers, engineers, and other creatives to innovate on compelling gameplay systems. This involves aligning with multiple disciplines to effectively communicate and drive the gameplay vision from concept to ship quality, ensuring alignment with the company and product strategy
Participate in all creative aspects of the game that impact the end-user, including gameplay, interface, animation, sound, and art style. This includes owning the design vision of your content and driving iteration based on feedback from the team, leadership, and broader team contributions
Create and maintain detailed design documents and scripting for activities, ensuring clear communication with cross-functional teams. This also includes producing prototypes of gameplay ideas and features
Analyze, design, and develop new games while maintaining and enhancing existing ones. This encompasses animating characters and objects in code, contributing to the design and audio features of the game, and participating in the development of project schedules and milestones
Ensure high-quality releases through rigorous bug fixing, balancing, and enhancing the overall fun gameplay experience. This includes testing and debugging work for accuracy and functionality before submission to QA, evaluating code for efficiency, fixing bugs, and future-proofing products
"Polish" the game by continually refining gameplay elements and ensuring the final product meets the highest quality standards

Must-Haves:

3 years of professional experience in game design, with a strong focus on end-game content design and activities
Proven track record to think creatively and develop unique, engaging, and fun gameplay experiences
Strong understanding of analytics, project management, video game development, and problem-solving skills
Desire to contribute to a positive, creatively driven, highly collaborative, and inclusive work environment
Skilled with Unity game development technologies
C# Knowledge
Creativity and imagination
Flexibility and adaptability
Strong knowledge of Art and Design
Strong Knowledge of UX
Passion for crafting gameplay systems, mechanics and gamemodes

Preferred Qualifications:

A degree in game design, or a related field
Strong proven portfolio

When:

Full-time
Open to part-time consulting (if desired by candidate)

Why join the Viziverse team?

Make a novel platform that is the first to implement live action gaming
Work with an accomplished startup founder to directly impact the industry
Join startup and get an early seat on a rocket ship to something potentially huge!

Ready?

If working on something fun, entrepreneurial, innovative, and industry-changing sounds appealing to you, then let’s talk. (And we’ll of course keep it confidential.)

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