Senior/Middle Game Designer (#5407)

Founded in 2012, N-iX Games is one of the biggest game development and art production vendors in Ukraine, working with leading publishers and media enterprises around the globe. The team of 240+ professionals focuses on full-cycle game development, VR solutions, and content creation for all the most popular platforms. The studio has successfully collaborated with over 40 clients, including Paradox Interactive, Tempo Storm, Supermassive Games, and VRChat. 

At N-iX Games, we strive to deliver AAA quality of our work and looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you are excited about the opportunity to collaborate and grow among passionate experts — we invite you to our team! As a technical game designer in our team, you will be responsible for forging and assembling all aspects of the player’s experience for an upcoming ambitious mobile project. You will be responsible for setting up scenes, visual scripting, and content implementation using custom Unity3D-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Balance game economies, progression systems, characters, weapons, items, and other gameplay systems
• Create and maintain comprehensive game design documentation (GDDs, feature specifications, balancing documents)
• Propose engaging and creative gameplay features that will improve user experience, engagement, and monetization
• Playtesting and design debugging
• Analyze player behavior, game metrics, and feedback to drive design decisions
• Idea generation
• Own features throughout the entire development cycle, from concept to release and post-launch support
• Work directly with the team to ensure that the product is of the highest quality

Requirements: 

• 4+ years of overall experience in the game design area
• At least 2 released projects
• Excellent knowledge of mathematics, probability theory, and combinatorics with examples of projects
• Experience working on sci-fi projects and a deep understanding of the genre's characteristics
• Understanding of different game genre mechanics, core gameplay and metagame
• Knowledge and deep analysis of trending games on PC
• Good writing skills and ability to describe thoughts in a structured but simple manner
• Practical, hands-on experience building game economies and balancing formulas for Roguelite and city-builder frameworks
• Passion for making and playing games
• English level: C1 (Advanced)

Good to have

• Mathematics education
• Experience designing and balancing complex combat, economic, or strategic systems 
• Practical experience with Unreal Engine 5
• Copywriting skills
• Advanced knowledge Excel/Google Sheets