Senior Videogame Designer shaping gameplay, systems, mechanics, levels, and UX for Seismic Squirrel’s narrative - driven RPGs. Collaborating remotely across design, engineering, art, writing, and testing teams.
About the role
- Senior Game Designer crafting third-person and scripted cameras for People Can Fly’s AAA games. Shaping player feel, camera systems, and cinematic gameplay experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation and tuning of the third person over the shoulder camera, including exploration, aiming, combat and traversal states
- Build responsive camera behaviour with smooth state blending, distance and offset handling, camera shake and gameplay feedback
- Solve collision, occlusion and framing problems in tight spaces, busy combat and vertical environments
- Design and implement rail camera sequences, including gameplay sequences, chases, flight moments and set pieces
- Create smooth transitions between player-controlled, rail and scripted cameras
- Work closely with animation, combat and engineering so camera, character and controls feel like one system
- Provide input on control responsiveness, aim assist and moment-to-moment player feel as part of the wider 3Cs
- Regularly playtest, gather player and team feedback, and turn it into clear improvements
- Own camera bugs and polish through to ship, prioritizing fixes as production advances
- Work with level design and cinematics to plan camera needs early in a space or sequence
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in game design, with significant time on camera or 3Cs
- Strong experience designing and tuning third-person cameras, including aiming, combat and traversal states
- Experience building rail or scripted camera sequences, and blending them smoothly with player controlled cameras
- Deep knowledge of camera tools, such as the camera manager, spring arm, curves and Sequencer
- A solid grasp of the math behind camera work, including vectors, angles and interpolation
- Experience solving collision, occlusion and framing problems in complex environments
- A strong eye for framing and composition, balanced with a feel for player control and responsiveness
- Comfort working remotely and independently, with clear communication across disciplines and time zones
- A background in technical design, cinematics or camera programming (nice to have)
- Experience with set piece cameras (nice to have)
- A portfolio or reel of camera work (nice to have; not required due to NDA)
Benefits
- Benefit package 100% paid by PCF
- Insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $500 per service a year, as well as individual family coverage)
- Full Dental coverage, including major dental and orthodontics
- 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1
- Paid week off during Winter Holidays
- 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days
- Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents
- Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment
- Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do
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