Game Designer II – Game Balance – Project K

Game Designer II – Game Balance – Project K

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as a professional game designer
• Broad mechanics and content design ability
• Demonstrated experience tuning and balancing strategy games

Responsibilities

• Understand the relevant audiences for the game, and from this, calibrate your design expertise to reflect appropriate taste for these audiences
• Use data and sense-making to identify opportunities to improve the health of the game through cards
• Articulate and consider a scope and depth of possible solutions, including possible effects, and collaboratively reach the best solution
• Discover solutions conceptually through rapid prototyping
• Implement card content and iterate on it through playtesting
• Evaluate and improve balance across the game’s design and execution, especially understanding the multiple ways the game will be played by players
• Improve existing design frameworks, our approaches to design, and create new ones
• Openly share work and seek feedback from other developers, while combine co-worker and player feedback to calibrate design direction
• Provide mentorship to more junior members of the design team

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of CCGs and their features
• Experience playing competitively in CCGs
• Experience working with or playing PvP strategy games
• Experience developing a competitive or multiplayer game