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Game Designer
Posted 13 days agoInactiveViewed
💎 Seniority level: Middle, 3+ years
📍 Location: United States
🔍 Industry: Gaming
🏢 Company: Arkadium👥 51-100💰 $5,000,000 Series A about 12 years agoInternetContentDigital EntertainmentData Visualization
⏳ Experience: 3+ years
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience working on games that have shipped for public consumption.
- A passion for casual games and a strong understanding of what makes them fun and engaging.
- Proficiency in game development languages and tools, such as HTML5 and Unity.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Attention to detail and a critical eye for game balance and design.
- Eagerness to learn and adapt in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Director of Games to brainstorm and create new and appealing game ideas with engagement, retention, and monetization potential in mind.
- Review and provide feedback for our slate of first party, second party, and third party published titles alongside development milestones, including art, music, FTUE, level design, animations, scoring, game loading, monetization (hard and soft currency, rewarded video), and retention.
- Put together concept documents that outline core gameplay mechanics, objectives, and overall vision for the game.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce a prototype, a small-scale playable version of the game, to test and refine gameplay concepts.
- Work on and update the design document to make it ready for internal and external game development and art teams to implement, ensuring it provides clear instructions for QA testing.
- Prepare basic layouts and mock-ups for simple game screens and pop-ups, focusing on delivering a seamless and enjoyable user experience for players.
- Create and fine-tune game assets, such as levels, puzzles, and obstacles.
- Playtest and iterate on game designs to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for our players.
- Analyze player feedback and data to make data-driven design decisions.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, casual (and web) games best practices, and Arkadium’s own standards of excellence (art, animation, design, tech, etc).
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