Game Designer

We are looking for game designers for Next Genium. Those who are interested in this field and have relevant experience in general design or balance.

We are a small studio making story-driven PC games. No producers above us, no approvals from three departments, no "let's redo everything from scratch just for the sake of an experiment."

We just get together (online), brainstorm, create, and release. Currently, we are looking for another person to join our team 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 that the level designer has something to work with;
• test a build and say: "it lags here, it's boring here, let's fix it";
• write a couple of lines of dialogue if the narrative designer is indisposed;
• 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

Everything a game designer typically does in a small studio:

• transfer ideas from your head to documents, and from documents to the build;
• polish the project together with everyone else 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;
• occasionally curse at a build that crashed 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? Please do. 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 is tight.

Projects we are not 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 our friends.

You 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.

How to apply

No formal cover letter needed. Resume is required, and a portfolio is highly desirable.

Salary: from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles depending on performance.