About the role

As Senior Game Designer you’ll be responsible for not only the successful design and execution of a large scale mobile casual game project but also 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 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 brainstorm sessions, refining and executing on ideas within a schedule
• Work with production to propose game design that achieves business objectives
• Work with production to prioritise and scope designs developed in a cadence that delivers the highest impact to the player, first
• Share responsibility of the game’s overall design vision and ensure the core and leadership teams are aligned on vision
• Consistently and clearly report game design progress to the team
• Develop and execute a play-testing plan for the game. Consolidate play-testing feedback and adjust game designing 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

Requirements

• 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

Nice-to-have

• Previous experience designing digital or analogue RPG or Idle games
• Extensive experience playing digital and/or analogue Action Survival/Survivor, Tower Defense
• Experience mentoring other game designers
• Mobile casual game development experience
• Previous management experience
• Familiarity with statistics or analytics

Why Super Duper Games?

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

Full Remote Job

We work remotely so you can work anywhere all around the world. 

A Super Team

Work with a world-class team of fellow highly skilled and motivated game developers.

A Diverse Team

We have people from all walks of life all adding their unique perspectives. Everyone is welcome!

Don’t pass on the cover letter, we’d love to hear your backstory. For us here at Super Duper Games, it can at times be more valuable than your official education.