Skill List

Skills

Narrative and Content Design - Script, lore, plot, story, items, quests all balanced against the core mechanics and core identity of the game.
Mechanics and systems Design - stand-alone and interacting mechanics and systems balanced against the game world, plot and story.
Economic Design - Various economic systems working in tandem or together, solo, co-op or multiplayer balanced through background systems to allow the player to immerse themselves in a world with a realistic economy.
Level Design - Linear, open-world or specifically planned to influence gameplay speed and actions.
UX Design - Wireframed without colour or information to find the most intuitive setup, HUD and GUI
Production - Task tracking, agile scrum, schedules, risk management, budget tracking.
Basic modelling for prototypes.
Programming - Best in C#, basics in Lua, Python and C++

Software Knowledge

Unity - 2D and 3D, simple scripting, variety of plugins, rapid prototyping, and greyboxing
ArticyDraft3
Unreal Engine - Node/blueprints, Rapid prototyping, and greyboxing
ChoiceScript - Using Notepad++ or CSIDE to create Choose Your Own Adventure Games
Photoshop/Gimp - Image correction and editing
Krita - Simple conceptual work
Microsoft Office/Google Drive/OpenOffice/Libre etc.
OBS Studio - Screen and video capture
Audacity - SFX editing and creation
GitKraken and GitHub - Source control
Adobe Premiere/After Effects - Video editing
Blender - Simpler models for rapid prototype/greyboxing
Scheduling Software (HacknPlan, Trello) - Task tracking, agile scrum, scheduling
- Jira, Confluence

Soft Skills

Paper prototype and wireframing
Communication within and outside of the studio
Collaboration with varying departments and people
Ability to meet deadlines
Gamification
Lore and content building
Traditional art skills, mainly sketching and ink
Testing plans and crunching feedback
KPIs and analytics
Visual scripting (Stencyl, Game Salad, Scratch, Blueprints, Flow Canvas)
The documentation - dialogue scripts, beatsheets, risk analysis, asset lists, mechanics and animation lists, flow charts, schedules, research, and GDD.

Game Designer