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Salary: $50,000 - $80,000 annually

Join Our Team as a Game Designer at IGG Canada!

Are you passionate about creating mobile games that captivate millions of players worldwide? IGG Canada, a premium mobile game and video production studio located in Vancouver, offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals to join our team of superheroes.

IGG Canada is a premium mobile game and video production studio located at 5 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC.

With spectacular views of the downtown skyline, coastal mountains, and English Bay, our new studio is spacious, high-tech, and inspiring. IGG Canada is a division of IGG (I Got Games), a global interactive digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and operation of Mobile Games. Established in 2006, IGG was founded with the aim of becoming a leading multiplayer game publisher and developer. The company has rapidly expanded its global operations, through strategic partnerships with popular gaming platforms such as Facebook, iOS, Amazon, Google Play, Kongregate, and many others. IGG currently operates studios in China, Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and Canada (opened in 2013).If you're passionate about creating mobile games that reach millions of players around the world and are interested in becoming an integral member of our Canadian team of superheroes, we want to hear from you!

Position: Game Designer
Report to: Lead Game Designer
Department: EAI Game
Hiring Level: Experienced
Contract length & Type: Permanent
Location: 5 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1R6 (fully on-site)

Game Style: Mobile Game 3D

Hiring Processes:
1. Resume & Showreel/Portfolio review;

2. Test(s) if any;
3. Interview(s);
4. Offer;

Responsibilities:

  • Conceptualize, implement, and maintain gameplay systems that achieve a fulfilling flow state, addictive game loops, and a risk/reward balance;
  • Developing the storyline, character back-stories, and dialogue, through scripts and storyboards, including any relevant research;
  • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (such as design outlines, diagrams, and visual mockups) that details the triggers, interactions, and subsequent events of specific features or aspects of gameplay;
  • Work closely with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) Designers to optimize the player interface;
  • Building levels and environments;
  • Take a core role in building the framework, designing gameplay experiences, system solutions, overseeing production, testing, adjustments, optimizations, and creating related documentation.
  • Design and develop fundamental game features and unique gameplay elements.
  • Other tasks assigned by the team.

Requirements:

  • Possess a great understanding of game levels, level layouts, drawing maps, architecture, and other design areas related to game-level design.
  • An ability to break things down into systems
  • Ability to use data to get qualitative information to affect your designs
  • Have a good understanding of technical implementation within games, scripting languages, syntax, and other basic programming concepts
  • An understanding of marketing and market research to understand what your target audience wants and how to sell it to them
  • Basic to advanced drawing skills to communicate ideas visually
  • Basic understanding of 3D art, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, and other areas of 3D art creation, use, and conversion
  • Basic to advanced knowledge of user interface (UI/UX) in games
  • Legally eligible to work in Canada without any sponsorship from the employer.

What We Offer:

  • Comprehensive benefits after 3 months including health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
  • 18 days of accrued paid Vacation + Sick Days.
  • Reimbursement for Active Living Benefits and Training/Development fees after 3 months.
  • Dependent/Child Benefits.
  • Paid Holiday Closure between Christmas & New Year's week.
  • Paid Statutory holidays.
  • RRSP matching after 1 year.
  • Monthly Commuter Allowance after 3 months.
  • Monthly team lunches.

Perks:

  • On-site car and bike parking.
  • Work hours: 10 am to 6 pm with 1 hour paid lunch.
  • On-Site Foosball table, table tennis, basketball game machine & pool table.
  • On-Site Gym.
  • Casual Dress Code.
  • Gifts for employee's children.
  • Snacks and drinks provided.
  • Festival Bonus/Gifts.
  • Referral Bonuses.

Join us in shaping the future of mobile gaming! Apply now and unleash your creativity with IGG Canada.

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