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Game Designer Telltale Games
Responsibilities:Work with game writers in a writers? room to create an effective narrative melded with excellent game design
Create mechanics and systems that are rewarding to play and support important narrative elements
Generate effective game design documents to inform all aspects of production
Collaborate with art and programming leads and appropriate team members to establish core game assets and game technology
Supervise and/or personally implement play prototypes
Iterate on designs, prototypes, and existing gameplay features in response to feedback
Provide team leadership
Champion the player experience
Implement interactive functionality using our proprietary toolset
Essential Skills:
Ability to consistently create rewarding gameplay, whether it be starting with a blank sheet of paper, or under constraints
Ability to recognize the pillars of an existing intellectual property and design play accordingly
Understanding of storytelling principles
Ability to take direction and respond to editorial or playtest feedback with comprehensive redesign
Effective collaboration; good communication and interpersonal skills
Estimation of, and adherence to, deadlines
Proactive seeking out of guidance while working independently for long periods in a fast-paced work environment
Essential Experience:
3 years professional game design experience
Minimum 2 shipped titles in a design role
1 year in a leadership role
Useful Extras:
College degree preferred; computer science, game design program or similar
Screenwriting or other creative writing background
Experience with Lua, Visual Studio, Source Safe, Maya
| Location: | San Rafael, CA 94912 United States |
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Telltale Games
Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, PlayStation3, Wii, and Xbox 360, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.Investors: Granite Ventures
All Jobs: at Telltale Games
| Web Site: | www.telltalegames.com |
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| Headquarters: | San Rafael, CA 94912 United States |
| Employees: | 41-100 |
| 2004 | |
| Industry: | Media and Entertainment |
| Founded in 2004 by LucasArts veterans with decades of experience, Telltale has quickly become an industry leader, establishing the model for downloadable game seasons and releasing more than 30 games to date. Telltale's titles have won numerous awards including "Adventure Game of the Year" accolades from publications such as IGN, PC Gamer, GameSpy, and Adventure Gamers, and have been recognized by mainstream outlets ranging from USA Today, to The New York Times to Variety. The publisher's landmark Sam & Max series, based on the independent comics by Steve Purcell, paved the way for episodic gaming with two award-winning seasons available on PC, Wii, and Xbox LIVE Arcade. In 2008, Telltale launched the first episodic series available on WiiWare with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, five adventures based on the Homestarrunner.com web cartoons. Ranked by USA Today as one of the top five downloadable games to watch in 2009, Telltale's Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures took episodic in a new direction with a series based on Aardman's globally popular franchise. Later that year, Telltale announced and launched Tales of Monkey Island, the highly-anticipated episodic return of Guybrush Threepwood in the series' first original story in nearly a decade. Key Milestones and Accomplishments Founded in 2004 Built a proprietary interactive storytelling technology Funded by top-tier investors Launched direct sales and distribution channel Secured agreements to create premium content based on established licenses (Wallace & Gromit; Monkey Island; Sam & Max; Homestarrunner.com; Bone; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) Partnered with leading distributors (Time Warner / Turner Entertainment (GameTap); Yahoo Games; Steam; IGN; Big Fish; JoWooD Group; Trymedia; Wild Tangent) Became official developer for Wii, Xbox 360 and PC |
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