Senior Gameplay Designer

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SENIOR GAMEPLAY DESIGNER (GIANT SPARROW)

*🕹* Experimental Animal Interaction Game

*🧠* Senior

*💰* Negotiable

*⏰* Full-time

*🌎* Remote

*🦄* Description

Giant Sparrow is looking for a Senior Gameplay Designer to help shape a new game focused on intimate, unusual, and expressive interactions with wild animals. You will join a small senior team and work at the intersection of game design and programming, creating rapid prototypes and defining the feel, direction, and player experience of the project.

*🚀* Responsibilities

• Brainstorm new interactions between humans and animals

• Build rapid 3D gameplay prototypes in Unreal Engine

• Tune movement controls, physics, and animal responses

• Create tactile, expressive, and responsive gameplay interactions

• Collaborate with programmers, animators, and artists

• Develop prototypes into polished gameplay experiences

• Create art briefs for gameplay features

• Provide feedback to align visual direction with gameplay

• Participate actively in playtests

• Lead iteration and gameplay review discussions

• Help define the overall direction and feel of the game

*📚* Required Skills

• At least five years of professional game development experience

• Strong gameplay prototyping skills

• Experience with C++ or strong C# knowledge with willingness to learn C++

• Proven experience creating expressive and responsive gameplay interactions

• Experience designing 3D gameplay spaces

• Ability to work independently in early prototype stages

• Strong understanding of game feel

• Ability to collaborate across design, programming, animation, and art

• Availability for at least four hours of overlap with the team between 9 AM and 6 PM Pacific Time

*👍* Nice to Have

• Experience with Unreal Engine

• Experience with Blueprint scripting

• Familiarity with Blender or Maya

• Experience creating unconventional gameplay systems

• Interest in science, biology, or natural systems

• Personal game projects

• Experimental gameplay prototypes

• Indie game development experience

*🍪* What we offer

• Fully remote work

• Full-time employment

• Healthcare benefits

• 401k plan

• Work within a small senior team

• Significant creative ownership

• Opportunity to shape an original experimental game

• Collaboration across multiple creative disciplines

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