Game Director

🔥 14 hours ago

🇲🇹 Malta – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

👻 Ghost score 11%

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ARRISE

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5001 - 10000 employees

🎮 Gaming

🤝 B2B

Gaming • B2B

ARRISE is a global software developer and services company focused on the iGaming industry. With more than 11,000 professionals across 14 locations, they design and build casino products including award-winning slot games, immersive live-casino experiences, and high-performance platform solutions that scale from concept through execution. ARRISE combines creative game design and technical engineering to drive player engagement and support operators and partners in the online gambling sector.

📋 Description

• Define, conceptualise, and iterate new game visions with the game production team • Participate in design reviews, team meetings, and brainstorming sessions • Lead new games from conceptual development through production • Create blueprints covering game theme, narrative, animations, sequencing, structure, and production • Present concepts to teams and stakeholders • Execute game concepts and established visions • Collaborate with art, production, development, and sound teams to deliver polished games • Prepare structured game specifications and supervise implementation • Provide quality control over design outputs and production • Guide teams on game direction and specifications • Adjust designs based on stakeholder feedback and technical constraints • Review proposed designs and requirements for dependencies and interaction effects • Playtest games extensively and verify implementation, visuals, animations, flow, music, and sound effects • Define and evolve consistent game direction across titles • Incorporate branding into games and corporate branding strategy • Align games with broader business design language and potential sequels or series • Develop creative concepts supporting business objectives and brand strategy • Analyze competitors and identify potentially valuable elements • Streamline the game production pipeline • Evaluate technologies for game direction pipelines • Monitor design trends and tools in gaming and entertainment • Provide feedback on roadmap and design strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in a game direction capacity designing real money gaming slots • Led game projects that shipped outstanding products for one or more major AAA land-based or digital slot manufacturers • Clear understanding and respect for players, developed through a substantial body of work • Ability to polish static artwork, animations, micro-animations, music, and SFX into compelling, immersive experiences • Ability to direct hands-on and produce clear specifications and guidelines • Strong storyboarding ability • Comfortable working with game designers and mathematicians to develop conceptual mechanics • Understanding of game mechanics and mathematics • Familiarity with hierarchical game structures and symbol hierarchy • Ability to communicate excitement, anticipation, and relative value clearly to players • Ability to work with a wide variety of art styles and existing intellectual property • Understanding of technical constraints and ability to work around them • Graphic design, motion graphics, animation, or video experience is a plus • Technical background or knowledge is ideal