Description:
Finfin Play is now looking for a Mobile Free to Play Senior Game Designer, who will lead the design and development of compelling game features, driving each from concept to ship in collaboration with a cross-discipline team. You will put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge mobile fashion game that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, you will help to shape the future of Fashion League.
Responsibilities:
- Game Conceptualization: Generating innovative ideas and implementing engaging gameplay systems.
- Documentation: Creating detailed design documents and maintaining documentation related to game features and mechanics.
- Level and Content Design: Designing challenges, balancing difficulty levels, creating storylines, character development, and dialogue through scripts and storyboards.
- Gameplay Mechanics: Defining and prototyping core gameplay elements, iterating for balance and accessibility.
- Collaboration: Collaborating with UI/UX designers for optimal player interface.
- Game Balancing and Testing: Conducting playtesting sessions, analyzing game metrics and player feedback, and making necessary adjustments for game improvement.
- Narrative: Understanding how game narrative works in mobile free to play games; being able to outline and structure a single-player campaign to incorporate narrative; working with and give direction to a writer in order to result in usable narrative for the game.
- Monetization Strategies: partner and collaborate with game economy designers to create ethical monetization strategies, developing in-game economies, and reward systems to enhance player engagement.
- Communication: Effectively communicating design concepts and requirements to the game development team and stakeholders.
- Market Research: Staying updated on mobile gaming industry trends, player preferences, and emerging technologies to inform game development decisions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Game Design, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Proven 7+ years of work experience as a game designer, specifically in mobile game development.
- Experience with successful game releases (A to Z) on mobile platforms, ideally F2P, fashion, dress-up, RPG, or female centered titles.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- A solid understanding of Unity Game engine.
- Experience of scripting and technical knowledge.
- A high level of English.
- Excellent communication skills: a versatile communicator, able to converse effectively with designers, artists, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Passion for all things gaming.
- Proactive, dynamic and always on top of industry trends and competitive products.