Associate Game Designer

Who we are:

Playstack was founded in 2016 with a mission to embrace the diversity of brilliant ideas.
In 2022, Playstack joined forces with Magic Fuel Games, a team of games industry veterans looking to build top-class globally appealing titles.
We all want to work with energetic, creative contributors who bring a fun vibe to the process of making games.

Who You Are:
We are looking for an Associate Designer with a passion for gaming and a talent for making delightful experiences for players around the world to help us with an exciting new project.

• Recent college grad in game design program or 1yr of game design experience
• You play video games and want to be a game designer in the industry
• Created your own games and released them to the public
• A strong appetite to learn from industry veterans
• High energy, positive attitude, and creative thinker
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for gaming: playing, deconstructing and creating
• Available to work full-time hours (remote)

How You'll Contribute:

• In collaboration with the team, by designing and implementing new levels, content or tutorials
• Produce core game designs, documentation, balance sheets, etc. for teams to execute from
• By working with our players and community to understand their priorities and feedback
• Assess and apply qualitative and quantitative feedback to improve game engagement and retention

What you’ll need:

• Experience bringing designs to life using common editors (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• Knowledge/ Coursework of Visual Design - Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator, and basic graphic design sensibilities
• Experience creating in-game content designed
• Comfortable with Slack, JIRA, online collaboration suites such as Confluence
• Passion for simulation games a plus
• (optional) even better if you have experience or haven taken coursework in:
  • User Experience (UX; user research, wireframes, iteration)
  • Systems Design
  • Any game development experience (Unity, Unreal, Gamemaker, Processing, etc)

What we offer:

• 100% remote working Pacific timezone working hours is expected
• 100% paid medical/dental/vision insurance for US based employees
• If US based, authorized to work in the U.S
• Profit sharing plan
• Work with great people!