Level Designer for new horror title !! - Climax - Solent, UK

[Climax Games]

Climax are one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with a great history, but our future is even more exciting with awesome titles such as Silent Hill Origins, Ferrari, Viva Piñata for Windows and an unannounced title for Konami as well as our groundbreaking original next-gen game for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Climax truly is an exciting and fun place to work.

Climax is looking for a Level Designer to join an experienced team of designers and artists in creating a new action title. The role requires the ability to drive the creation of gameplay levels from paper concepts, through first pass in-game models to final gameplay-polished shippable content.

• Experience of working as a Level Designer on at least one released title from concept to release.

• Ability to work in a team, as part of a production process, liaising with other designers and artists to create AAA gameplay that maintains AAA visual quality as well.

• In-depth experience of middleware tools such as Unreal Engine 3, Renderware Studio.

• Extensive experience with a 3D authoring tool such as Maya or MAX.

• Ability to rapidly understand new technical concepts and explain them to a team.

• Ability to think in 3D space to create gameplay spaces and solve problems

• Experience using design presentation tools such as Word, Excel, Visio and Photoshop.

• Knowledge of what makes a memorable, atmospheric, clear, challenging and enjoyable level.

• An excellent eye for detail and quality control to review the work of other designers and making suggestions to improve it.

• Able to understand and use both limitations and potentials of engine technology.

• Able to work independently on routine tasks with little supervision.

Please send a current CV/ resume to Stuart Godfrey on sgodfrey@climaxgroup.com

We look forward to hearing from you.