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Lead Games Designer

Best Boy Entertainment | St John's NF A1C 2H7 CAN | Full Time | Posted: 10/22/2012

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Best Boy Entertainment is a fast-growing, vertically integrated company based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. We make games and other interactive media, TV shows, and film; and we market and distribute it all ourselves. We have a current full-time staff of 37 and counting, ranging from programmers to accountants, animators to executives.

We are primarily a company of young, talented, enthusiastic individuals with a strong foundation of highly successful and experienced senior staff and consultants. Some advantages of working with Best Boy include:


• Relocation allowance
• Health and dental insurance
• Competitive salary
• 3 weeks' vacation
• Casual dress code

Job Descriptiontop

Best Boy is offering an outstanding opportunity for a Lead Game Designer to join the team of Atlantic Canada’s fastest-growing entertainment company.

We are seeking a talented, creative individual to be responsible for gameplay mechanics, level concept, layout, implementation, prototype modeling, scenario creation, event scripting, from initial concept through ship date.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the design team, providing day-to-day and long-term direction, goals, mentoring, and guidance

• Works with the Head of Interactive Development to define design goals, scheduling, and milestones

• Works with other team leads to address their design needs, champion the needs of the design team, and maintain an excellent flow of cross-disciplinary information

• Responsible for the execution quality of the overall design vision for the game

• Manages the design team to successfully meet project goals and deadlines

• Provides training, guidance, and feedback to the design team

• Responsible for meeting design team deadlines and goals, and assuring the quality of all design work

• Establishes and maintains best practices and processes for the design team

• Creates, owns, maintains, and updates design documentation (with the help of the design team), including GDDs and other related documentation necessary for development

• Establishes and maintains core gameplay mechanics, content guidelines and game flow

• Makes decisions on how to accomplish current design goals within the overall development schedule

• Coordinates workflow, scheduling, and assignments with other team leads and aids the information flow between both the designers and to other disciplines

• Communicates the design vision to the team and the company

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.

Experience Requiredtop

  • 3+ years’ design experience
  • 2 or more shipped game titles, preferably social / casual
  • Experience with digital platforms such as iOS and Android
  • Broad knowledge of game design / game mechanics / game balancing concepts and techniques
  • Ability to create composition of story and game-flow
  • Experience and/or familiarity with the casual and social game market (educational games a plus)
  • Strong time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities and solve problems
  • Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, and analytical skills
  • Strong leadership abilities
  • Ability to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing, fast-paced creative environment
  • Ability to take and apply direction
  • Ability to work independently, and in a collaborative environment


    • Desirable:
    • Familiarity with Unity
    • Familiarity with Perforce
    • Familiarity with educational games
    • Previous experience working in 3D environments
    • Experience with development pipelines, story creation, and basic art skills (in terms of design concepts and game flow charts)


    Job Detailstop

    Location St John's, NF, A1C 2H7, Canada
    Job Level Senior
    Categories Game / Level Designer / Creative Director
    Work Site On site
    Platforms Mac OS X,Mobile phone

    Location Maptop

    St John's, NF, A1C 2H7, Canada

    Contact Informationtop

    Contact Name Robert Evans
    How to apply Applications are no longer accepted for this job posting.
    Job Code Lead Games Designer