Senior Gameplay Designer (Gamedev)

SENIOR GAMEPLAY DESIGNER (GIANT SPARROW)

🕹 Experimental Animal Interaction Game
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote

🦄 Description
Giant Sparrow is looking for a Senior Gameplay Designer to help shape a new game focused on intimate, unusual, and expressive interactions with wild animals. You will join a small senior team and work at the intersection of game design and programming, creating rapid prototypes and defining the feel, direction, and player experience of the project.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Brainstorm new interactions between humans and animals
• Build rapid 3D gameplay prototypes in Unreal Engine
• Tune movement controls, physics, and animal responses
• Create tactile, expressive, and responsive gameplay interactions
• Collaborate with programmers, animators, and artists
• Develop prototypes into polished gameplay experiences
• Create art briefs for gameplay features
• Provide feedback to align visual direction with gameplay
• Participate actively in playtests
• Lead iteration and gameplay review discussions
• Help define the overall direction and feel of the game

📚 Required Skills
• At least five years of professional game development experience
• Strong gameplay prototyping skills
• Experience with C++ or strong C# knowledge with willingness to learn C++
• Proven experience creating expressive and responsive gameplay interactions
• Experience designing 3D gameplay spaces
• Ability to work independently in early prototype stages
• Strong understanding of game feel
• Ability to collaborate across design, programming, animation, and art
• Availability for at least four hours of overlap with the team between 9 AM and 6 PM Pacific Time

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience with Blueprint scripting
• Familiarity with Blender or Maya
• Experience creating unconventional gameplay systems
• Interest in science, biology, or natural systems
• Personal game projects
• Experimental gameplay prototypes
• Indie game development experience

🍪 What we offer
• Fully remote work
• Full-time employment
• Healthcare benefits
• 401k plan
• Work within a small senior team
• Significant creative ownership
• Opportunity to shape an original experimental game
• Collaboration across multiple creative disciplines

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