Principal Technical Designer

Summary

Join Ghost Story Games, an award-winning game development studio, as a Principal Technical Designer. Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of tools, workflows, and key game systems. You will design and prototype new features, identify technical challenges, and offer solutions. Improve tools and workflows to enhance design team efficiency. Design, balance, and iterate on technical gameplay systems. Collaborate with other disciplines to align design intent with non-design pipelines and technology. Ghost Story Games is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience within technical design making games
• A strong understanding of gameplay and systems design, including player psychology, UX design and gameplay mechanics and dynamics in AAA games
• Experience working with and building procedural systems
• Proficiency with the Unreal Engine and experience in Blueprint scripting
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and C#

Responsibilities

• Help design and prove new features by developing prototypes
• Help identify technical pitfalls and challenges in new and existing designs, offering possible solutions or alternatives
• Contribute tool and workflow improvement ideas, to improve design team efficiency and iteration capabilities
• Help design, balance, and iterate our more technical gameplay systems
• Work with other disciplines to help align design intent with non-design pipelines and tech