Game Designer
Description
MACHINE Studios
About Us
We are a mobile game development studio in San Diego, California. We’ve developed top grossing games and technology infrastructure with some of the most prominent partner-publishers in the world. We are incredibly passionate about making amazing things.
We are completely united in our core values: team, talent, drive, and dedication. We strive together to raise up the group over the individual. We work smart and diligently to achieve the highest quality of product in our development. We share the success of our projects together and have Fortune 500 competitive benefits - including full health, dental, vision, life, AD&D, 401(k), paid sick time, paid time off, holiday pay, and much more.
If you share our values, and if you want to do amazing work with wonderful people, then our studio is a great future for you.
Game Designer
We are looking for an experienced and talented game designer who:
- Puts their group’s success ahead of their own
- Is expertly talented or adaptable to the core competencies that are needed to do an amazing job every day
- Is driven by creative initiative to take ownership of their creative tasks and independently produce with or without guidance
- Is wholly dedicated to partnering with the organization everyday to create amazing things
Responsibilities
- See the product vision and share our obsession for making it more amazing every day
- Understand and empathize with a wide range of audiences to help create games they love
- Passionately contribute to every project
- Design gameplay, story, economies, core loops, UI/X, presentation, and auxiliary systems
- Analytics based tuning and projecting
- Interpret and execute on both verbal and written direction, as available, alongside provided or self-researched design reference to understand the context and objectives for designs
- Work with a team and mentor junior members to help them grow
- Feedback and help improve our systems and process
Qualifications
- Enjoy working on all types of game designs
- 2+ years of mobile game design experience
- Analytics interpretation and data analysis background
- Uber-positive attitude and desire to see those around you succeed and grow
- Understand the time, care, and iteration required to create finely crafted games
- Receive feedback and critique with humility, modesty, and respect
- Attention to detail and a love of process
- Create and articulate innovative design concepts and game flow
- Write and tell engaging stories
- Strong understanding of player experience and design fundamentals
Pluses
- Any proficiencies in Hansoft, Basecamp, Balsamiq, Google Docs, Google Sites, and wiki creation and maintenance
MACHINE is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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