Staff Gameplay Designer – Social

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teamLFG

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • B2C

teamLFG is a PlayStation Studios-affiliated game development studio based in Bellevue, WA that builds immersive, action-driven social multiplayer games designed to foster friendship, community, and belonging. The team combines industry veterans (with credits on Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Rec Room) and newer creators working across the U. S. and Canada to deliver highly polished moment-to-moment gameplay and long-term multiplayer engagement.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain the avatar movement and core sandbox systems that enable cooperative social gameplay and player expression, while building trust between players • Build the systems to allow for avatar customization, creating extensible opportunities for player investment and a progression economy, as well as player self expression and customization • Build compelling gameplay experiences through reusable sandbox mechanics, especially 3C (Character, Camera and Controls) design and implementation • Create endearing NPCs that improve IP quality, consistency, along with sandbox design principles • Work with audio, effects, and animation to clearly communicate gameplay affordances to players

🎯 Requirements

• Understanding of how modern multiplayer social games can leverage an intuitive and expressive action sandbox to create memories between players • Fluency for collaboration with designers, artists, programmers, audio professionals, quality assurance and producers to achieve a common goal, with adaptability for how to work in a flexible work environment • Broad T-shaped rapid prototyping skills, with enough multi-disciplinary knowledge to quickly stub out gameplay ideas to evaluate their potential • Strong technical scripting skills and understanding of how to structure game design tools to unlock player expression, content variety, and execution speed • Strong understanding of character motion and animation; momentum, timing, and their impact on player communication and tone • Proven ability to build alignment and productively own feature direction without sacrificing empathy and collaboration with team contributors • Ability to operate autonomously and handle ambiguity, including giving and receiving feedback despite that ambiguity • Ability to create plans and evaluate them for meeting the experiential needs of the players and markets • Outstanding oral and written communication skills • Demonstrated understanding of how systemically consistent, combinatoric game design can create player surprise and laughter.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision