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Game Design
Game Planner
On a new title in development, write specifications, design levels, and place and tune characters and gimmicks.
- Open
- Job code: AP-GD-01
Role
Under the director, you will handle game design for a new title in development.
Responsibilities
- Write game proposals, specifications and documentation
- Plan, design and implement levels, and create and tune their data
- Place characters and gimmicks and create and tune the data that drives their behavior
- Explain specifications and manage schedules and progress
What makes it interesting
- Work on a title played around the world.
Required experience
- 1+ years of console action game development (specifications, data creation, implementation, balancing)
- A love of console and PC games, especially side-scrolling action
- Strong communication: positive, logical, and fluent in Japanese
Preferred experience
- Experience with game engines such as UE4 / UE5
- Level design on commercial games
- Understanding of programming
Who we are looking for
- Creative and able to challenge players
- Drives projects with a sense of responsibility
- Works with urgency for a new title
- Proactive; finds work rather than waiting for it
- Wants to help the company grow
Before you apply
Please describe the commercial titles you have worked on and your specific responsibilities.
Terms of employment
- Unreal Engine 4 / 5
- Excel
- Project
- Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
- Employment
- Full-time or contract (contract hires are made with conversion to full-time in mind). 3-month probation.
- Location
- Kanda Center Building 5F, 2-3-2 Kajicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (about 3 min from JR Kanda Station)
- Hours
- 10:00–19:00 (8 working hours, flextime available)
- Holidays
- Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year, paid annual leave, summer leave, celebration and condolence leave
- Benefits
- Commuting allowance, full social insurance, annual health check, celebration and condolence allowances, free drinks, skill-development support, gym subsidy, company trips
- Salary
- Determined by experience and ability under company rules, regardless of age, and reviewed after joining. Monthly salary includes 40 hours of fixed overtime.
Use the application form to send your resume and work history (PDF preferred, 20MB total). Apply by email
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