Gameplay Designer (Creatures)

At Gardens Interactive , we believe that games have the power to connect people and foster meaningful relationships. Our studio is dedicated to creating critically acclaimed and commercially successful live-service games through a sustainable and collaborative development process. As a Gameplay Designer focused on creatures, you will shape the heart of our world’s living inhabitants. You will design, refine, and implement systems that bring creatures to life through responsive and engaging behaviors in both combat and non-combat scenarios. Your work will ensure our worlds feel alive, dynamic, and filled with opportunities for meaningful player interaction. A Day In The Life: Prototype, iterate, and maintain creature behaviors and abilities for both combat and non-combat scenarios in an online multiplayer environment. Own the implementation and continuous maintenance of creature behaviors using Unreal Behaviors Trees and Blackboards from prototyping to polish. Collaborate with engineers, artists, animators, and audio designers to bring your creature designs to the player experience. You Will: Own creatures, their abilities, and their behaviors while staying aligned with gameplay design and leadership. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary partners to align creature design with art, narrative, 3C’s gameplay, and technical requirements. Balance and tune difficulty and behavior to create engaging encounters for multiplayer situations. Advocate for the player experience, ensuring creature interactions are fun, surprising, and memorable. Partner with Animation to tune movement sets and provide pathfinding logic to ensure locomotion feels grounded and purposeful. Act as a key bridge between Art/Animation and Engineering to troubleshoot visual state logic and optimize creature performance. You Bring: Understanding of how players approach multiplayer play in order to create compelling and engaging creatures (and creature behaviors) that elevate the player experience. Strong co