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We are looking for game designers with at least 1 year of experience. Those who are interested in this field and have relevant experience in general design or balancing. We are a small studio, making story-driven PC games. No producers above, no approvals from three departments, no "let's redo everything from scratch for the sake of an experiment". We just gather (online), brainstorm, create, and release. Now we are looking for one more person to join our team, someone who loves games and knows how to design them.

It's enough to:

• come up with a mechanic without breaking the entire game with it;
• sketch a level layout so the level designer has something to work with;
• test a build and say: "it's lagging here, it's boring here, let's fix it";
• write a couple of lines of dialogue if the narrative designer is unavailable;
• set a task in the tracker so that it can be read the first time. If you have done any of this in commercial projects - that's already good.

What you will be doing is everything a game designer typically does in a small studio:

• transfer ideas from your head into documents, and from documents into the build;
• polish the project with everyone else to a state that you "aren't ashamed to show";
• argue until you're hoarse, and then go have coffee and come up with something cooler;
• occasionally curse at a build that crashed for no reason;
• feel joy when a mechanic suddenly comes to life and you want to play it just for the sake of it.

What do we offer in return? Freedom. Nobody is breathing down your neck. Want to work at 6 AM? At 4 AM? From lunch to lunch the next day? Go ahead. The main thing is the result.

A team without snobbery. We don't measure portfolios and skills here. We do help each other, give advice, cover each other's backs when deadlines approach.

Projects we aren't ashamed of. We don't make "another casual game for NFT". We make games that we play ourselves and that we want to show to friends.

Must have relevant experience and interest in working as a game designer. Game designers with experience working on Unreal Engine and Godot are especially valued. Knowledge of English will give you a significant advantage during consideration. Salary is discussed.

To apply, a formal cover letter is not needed. A resume and, ideally, a portfolio are sufficient. You can write to TG @nextg_hr_kirill :)