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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, we make story-driven PC games. No producers above, no approvals in three departments, no "let's redo everything from scratch for the sake of an experiment." We just gather (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.

It is enough to:

• come up with a mechanic and not break 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 busy;
• create a task in the tracker that can be understood on the first read. 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:

• carry ideas from your head into documents, and from documents into the build;
• polish the project together with everyone until it's "not shameful to show";
• argue until you're hoarse, and then go for coffee and come up with something cooler;
• sometimes curse at a build that crashed for no reason;
• feel joy when a mechanic suddenly comes to life and you just want to play it for its own sake.

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

A team without snobbery. We don't measure portfolios and skills here. What we do is help, advise, cover each other's backs when deadlines loom.

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

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