Game Designer

We are looking for Game Designers at Next Genium. Those who are interested in this field and have relevant experience in general direction or balance. We are a small studio, we make story-driven PC games. No producers above, no approvals in three departments, no "let's redesign everything from scratch for an experiment".

We just get together (online), brainstorm, create, and release. Currently, we are looking for one more person to join our team, someone who loves games and knows how to design them.

Sufficient to:

• invent a mechanic and not break the entire game with it;
• sketch a level layout so the level designer has something to work from;
• 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 overloaded;
• create a task in the tracker so that it can be read the first time.

If you have done any of this on commercial projects, that's already good.

What you will be doing Everything a game designer usually does in a small studio:

• move ideas from your head into documents, and from documents into the build;
• polish the project together with everyone to a state "we are not ashamed to show it";
• argue until you're hoarse, and then go for coffee and come up with something cooler;
• sometimes swear at a build that crashes for no reason;
• feel great when a mechanic suddenly comes to life and you want to play it just for fun.

What we offer in return?

Freedom. No one is breathing down your neck. Want to work at 6 am? At 4 am? From lunch to lunch the next day? Be our guest. The main thing is the result.

A team without snobbery. We don't measure portfolios and skills here. We do help, advise, and cover each other's backs when the deadline looms.

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

It is essential to 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 serious advantage when considering your application.

How to apply No formal cover letter needed. We need a resume and a portfolio is highly desirable.

Salary from 50,000 rubles to 100,000 rubles depending on the results.