A Principal Encounter Designer to help craft this new game for Blizzard, defining and championing the player combat experience and encounter philosophy that bring gameplay to life.
The standard base pay range for this role in the U.S. is $119,280.00 - $220,700.00 Annual.
- Serve as the connective tissue between player combat, enemy combat, and level design disciplines.
- Build and champion the end-to-end combat experience, ensuring player abilities, enemy behaviors, and encounter design come together to create compelling gameplay.
- Design, prototype, and iterate on player combat systems, enemy combat mechanics, encounter experiences, and moment-to-moment gameplay.
- Establish combat and encounter design frameworks, guidelines, and best practices that enable scalable development across multiple feature teams.
- Implement combat encounters that challenge players, encourage mastery, support multiple playstyles, and reinforce progression goals.
- Nice to have: shooter design
- Nice to have: action games
- Nice to have: RPG design
- Nice to have: boss battles design
- Nice to have: creature combat
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