Senior Game Designer

We aim to create engaging games efficiently, ultimately enhancing the gaming experience for players worldwide. We would like to be a leader in the mobile game industry by continually pushing the boundaries of innovation for optimizing the development process.

Super Duper Games is a spin-off company of Multiplayer Turkey.

Над чем работать?

• Жанры: Гиперказуальные
• Платформы: Mobile

На какие задачи (обязанности)?

About the role:

As Senior Game Designer, you’ll be responsible for not only the successful design and execution of a medium-scale mobile hybrid casual and casual game project but also for establishing game design best practices in conjunction with the leadership team. We’re looking for someone with proven success in mobile Action, RPG, and/or Idle games and mechanics.

Responsibilities:

• Support the leadership team by creating game design best practices and processes within the team and studio

• Hands-on game designer - Create detailed and easy-to-follow game design documentation for core gameplay and meta/progression systems as well as tuning and balancing

• Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions, refining and executing ideas within a schedule

• Work with production to propose game design that achieves business objectives

• Work with production to prioritize and scope designs developed in a cadence that delivers the highest impact to the player, first

• Share the responsibility of the game's overall design vision and ensure the core and leadership teams are aligned on the vision

• Consistently and report game design progress to the team

• Develop and execute a play-testing plan for the game. Consolidate play-testing feedback and adjust game design planning, accordingly

• Assist in mentoring junior game designers

• Work with level designers to create interesting scenarios, events, and progression design

• Work with product managers to identify KPIs to track for monitoring game performance and integrate KPI performance into the decision-making process.

Какого профессионала ищем?

• Excellent English-speaking written and verbal communication skills

• Candidate must be willing to take a short design task/test

• Been through at least one full production cycle on a commercially successful mobile game in any product role

• Strong and clear communicator of game design and systems

• Created and balanced complex game economy and progression design systems such as game currency reward progression, XP curve progression, combat system difficulty progression, and more

• Understanding of how to balance economy, core gameplay, and meta systems and the tuning required for progression journey through casual player experience

• Rapidly prototyped core gameplay mechanics and systems - able to test, identify new opportunities, and make tangible progress based on improved game KPI's and play-test feedback

• Demonstrable understanding of how the meta in popular casual games evolves as a consequence of the introduction of new mechanics and synergies

• Design experience working on RPG or similar adventure/action titles with combat systems, level/skill progression, and XP/currency economies with long-term balancing/tuning planning required.