Senior Game Designer
Senior Game Designer at PlaySimple Games in Bangalore who owns game design end-to-end: designing and balancing features, creating documentation, building design tools, running playtests, and driving design vision for mobile casual games. Core focus: game systems design and balancing, collaboration with product/art/engineering, and mentoring designers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bangalore North, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Must have
- Design, balance and analyse new and existing features
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, artists and engineers to create a fun gaming experience
- Communicate designs to key stakeholders
- Create and maintain game documentation
- Build and improve tools to make the design pipeline faster and more efficient
- Own, drive, and communicate the vision for major design initiatives
- Recruit and train designers for your initiatives
- Organize and conduct playtests to get feedback for new feature prototypes
- 4-6 years of experience in game design with 2 shipped titles on mobile
- Understanding of casual games
- Experience with game systems design and balancing for casual games
- Passion for video games, including mobile games
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Storytelling and narrative development skills
- Understanding of all processes involved in game production
- Strong interpersonal skills and a track record of teamwork
Full description
**Position Summary
Do you want to own and shape all the elements of a great game: its setting, structure, rules, story flow, characters, interface design, and modes of play? Would you like to be part of a fun, driven, fast-paced team? PlaySimple Games is looking for Game Designers who can take games all the way from concept development to delivery. If you have a great passion for games, enjoy building things from scratch, and have the ability to break through hurdles to drive ideas through to completion, you’ll love this job.
Requirements
What’s required of you
- Design, balance and analyse new and existing
features
- Collaborate with designers, product managers,
artists and engineers to create a fun gaming experience
- Communicate designs to key stakeholders
- Create and maintain game documentation
- Build and improve tools to make the design
pipeline faster and more efficient for the team
- Own, drive, and communicate the vision for major
design initiatives
- Recruit and train designers for your initiatives
- Organize and conduct playtests to get feedback
for new feature prototypes
**What we are looking for
- 4-6 years of experience in game design with 2
shipped title on mobile
- Understanding of casual games
- Experience with game systems design and
balancing for casual games
- Passion for video games, including mobile games
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Storytelling and narrative development skills
- Understanding of all processes involved in game
production
- Strong interpersonal skills, and a track record
of teamwork