Fortis Games · 4 hours ago

Staff Game Designer - Arcade Survival

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

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Responsibilities

Creating proposals that articulate how these features and systems uphold the game’s design pillars and drive the desired player behaviors.

Implementing and owning these features from proposal to polish, creating visibility and buy-in from partner teams such as user research, UA, etc.

Supporting team members through your expertise so that our game has consistent design targets across the product.

Continuing to grow your expertise in the opportunity spaces, genres, and game mechanics you explore during prototyping and share your learnings with the broader product team to advance our collective knowledge.

Cultivating your personal design philosophy that upholds the key tenets of Fortis’ approach to products while adding your own unique approach to thinking about emerging patterns in service design.

Qualification

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Mobile Game DevelopmentArcade Survival GenreGame Design PrinciplesGame EconomiesPlayer PsychologyGames as a ServiceLive OperationsDesign IterationAbstract Concept ArticulationSynthesis of Feedback

Required

An expertise in mobile game development, specifically in the arcade survival genre.

The ability to take game-defining designs from proposal to polish.

A holistic view of game systems and the downstream effects of all design decisions throughout both the product and player lifecycle.

A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.

Ability to articulate the nuances of abstract concepts and how they apply to complex, interrelated systems.

Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.

Extensive knowledge of games as a service and live operations – you know what good looks like and can build efficient design processes, workflows, and tooling to enable it.

A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn - we believe this is essential to our ability to stay ahead of the market and value this over years of experience.