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지역: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
역할 ID
207373
근로자 유형
Regular Employee
스튜디오/부서
Maxis
유연근무제
Hybrid

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Electronic Arts는 전 세계 플레이어와 팬들에게 영감을 불어넣을 차세대 엔터테인먼트 경험을 제작합니다. 여기에선 모든 이가 이야기의 일부가 됩니다. 전 세계를 연결하는 커뮤니티의 일부이자 창의력이 번창하고 새로운 관점을 제시하며 아이디어가 중요한 곳이며 모두가 플레이 제작에 참여할 수 있는 팀입니다.

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of The Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be.

You will be reporting to the project's Development Director.

Location (Hybrid): Vancouver and Toronto. This is a hybrid role in studio 3 days/week.

Responsibilities

  • Design systems, mechanics, and content (e.g., events, event quests, and rewards) from concept through implementation to completion.

  • Create designs based on goals set by the team Leads.

  • Find practical and creative solutions that achieve the intended player experience and fit within the project scope.

  • Improve designs based on team input, user research and playtesting, game metrics, and sound systems design practices.

  • Create systems design and technical design documents that communicate intent to the team.

  • Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, animators, modelers, engineers, quality assurance, and producers to get support from the team and guide a project from initial design to final production.

  • Champion a design and get the team excited to work on it.

  • Create interesting gameplay goals that lead to interesting player choices.

  • Determine gameplay experience goals for designs, and tune features to meet those goals.

  • Become proficient in Maxis' proprietary game designer development tools to implement your designs, tune, and bug fix.

  • Become proficient in creating gameplay objects and drive creative solutions using existing functionality. 

  • Write copy and player-facing text that relates to the event theme for the content created.

  • Become knowledgeable about the game and our community, drawing from our large, varied player base and our past games to make and defend intelligent design choices going forward.

  • Debug work.


Qualifications

  • 4+ years of game design experience on a video game development team.

  • Experience becoming proficient with multiple proprietary development tools.

  • Experience on past game projects using a variety of scripting solutions to implement, tune, and bug-fix features using scripts, XLM/JSON, and/or blueprints with a game engine (Unity/Unreal) or proprietary editor.

  • Experience designing meta systems and content for a live operations game. 

  • Design and implementation experience with game features that focus on open-ended player creativity.

  • Experience writing detailed design documentation throughout a project life cycle.

  • Work with project managers and prioritize multiple tasks.

  • Effective at working both autonomously and in groups of different profiles.

  • Experience with data-informed design practices, a/b testing, and segmentation.

  • Knowledge of and enthusiasm for gaming: playing, deconstructing, and creating.

Desirable Skills

  • Technical Design, scripting or engineering background.

  • Worked on a AAA HD title.

  • Worked on a large team.

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.

  • Comfortable with Excel, Looker or Tableau, Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, and Slides), Miro, Visio, JIRA, Perforce or Git, and online collaboration suites such as Confluence and Slack.

  • Experience with games in The Sims PC franchise and other life simulation games.

  • Has designed and implemented Live Service content including Quests, Events, and/or game items - Rewards.

  • Narrative Design experience.



Electronic Arts 소개
EA는 전 세계의 다양한 게임과 경험, 지역, 그리고 기회에 대한 광범위한 포트폴리오를 보유함에 있어 자랑스럽게 생각합니다. 당사는 적응력, 회복력, 창의성, 호기심을 중시합니다. 잠재력을 발휘하는 리더십부터 학습과 실험을 위한 공간을 만드는 것까지, 당사는 여러분이 훌륭한 일을 하고 성장의 기회를 추구할 수 있도록 힘을 실어드립니다.

EA는 신체적, 정서적, 재정적, 직업적, 지역 사회 복지에 중점을 둔 복리후생 프로그램을 통해 유급 휴가와 육아 휴가, 무료 게임 제공 등을 통해 균형 잡힌 삶을 지원합니다. 당사는 팀이 항상 최선을 다할 수 있는 환경을 육성합니다.

Electronic Arts는 동등한 고용 기회를 제공합니다. 채용에 관한 모든 결정은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 성별, 성 정체성 또는 성 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애, 질병, 임신, 결혼, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 또는 기타 법으로 보호되는 기타 특성과 관계없이 내려집니다. 당사는 또한 해당 법률에 따라 전과 기록이 있는 자격을 갖춘 지원자도 채용 대상으로 고려합니다. 또한, EA는 관련 법률에서 요구하는 대로 장애가 있는 자격을 갖춘 개인을 위한 직장 내 편의 시설을 마련합니다.