About the role
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Role Overview
Table Knight Games is looking for an experienced freelance technical game designer to support the development of UnderMire, a co-op roguelite adventure. UnderMire is set in an exciting new world rich with adventure, danger, and playfulness, featuring an ambience of teen-friendly thrills and spookiness.
UnderMire is being developed in Unity with a small fully remote team across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. As the project is in the final stages of production, the role focuses on helping with remaining design needs. Proficiency and experience with Unity is a must have for this role.
The role is a mix of technical data work, game design work, and level design work. You must be able to effortlessly work with interconnected data assets, prefabs, and scenes.
Example Tasks
- Create and hookup our final set of weapon variations and attacks, creating and connecting data assets and prefabs, hooking up VFX, and ensuring key design data is present and well balanced
- Setup scenes with data configurations for enemy spawn points, tags, and variations for different co-op team sizes
- Create and connect light scripting elements into scenes to meet quest needs
- Distribute key gameplay assets into scenes such as destructible items, loot containers, narrative pickups, and so on
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the Game Director to determine tasks and priorities.
- Create data and prefab assets as needed, enter their data, connect them together, test them, iterate their data, and balance them.
- Complete scene work with data setup, light scripting, and asset placement.
- Be available for a video/voice call on a daily basis on our Discord channels, during core team hours (12:30pm - 4:30pm UTC).
- Be available to chat over text regularly on our Discord channels, also during core hours, to discuss your work.
- Be comfortable submitting your work through GitHub and SourceTree.
Experience and Qualifications Required
- Strong hands-on experience with Unity, preferably on other shipped games.
- A proactive mindset with proven problem-solving skills, able to understand where and how to fix and iterate on your work as you test it.
- Strong communication skills in English to collaborate with team members around the world.
- Ability to self-manage, organize, and prioritize work as needed.
About Table Knight Games
Founded in 2016, Table Knight Games began as a simple quest to create a fan game but quickly grew into a mission to craft fun-filled, engaging experiences that bring people together. Whether teaming up with friends for a cooperative challenge or enjoying a lighthearted family game night, the studio's games are designed to spark laughter, friendly competition, and collaboration.
With a vision to grow as a creative force in the global games industry, Table Knight Games crafts high-quality, accessible games that reflect the team’s creativity, cultural inspiration, and passion for play.