Senior Game Designer
Fishing Planet
WorldwideremotePosted 25 days ago
Skill Required
Game-DesignSenior-Game-DesignerGame-Economy-DesignLevel-DesignGameplay-DesignSenior-Mobile-Game-DesignerLead-Game-DesignerSenior-DesignerSenior-Level-DesignerdesigningAndroidTestNGdesignUnityiOSandFulltime
Key highlights
- Work on a successful live game played by more than 35 million people worldwide
- Make a direct impact on a complex, established product
- 4-day work week
- Collaborate with an experienced and global team
- 5+ years of professional game design experience required
- Experience with F2P and live games required
Role overview
Fishing Planet is an independent game studio that created a successful free-to-play game available on eight platforms (Steam, Epic Games, Microsoft Store, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android) with a global community of over 35 million players. The studio is committed to continuous improvement and providing team members with resources, tools, and an environment for stable, rewarding, long-term careers while building ambitious games that players want to return to.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and iterate on core gameplay mechanics and systems
- Design and balance game economy, progression, rewards, upgrades, and other interconnected systems
- Take ownership of gameplay features end-to-end from initial concept and design through implementation, playtesting, balancing, and iteration
- Improve and expand existing systems while introducing new mechanics and content for a live F2P product
- Contribute to level design, player flow, and the integration of gameplay mechanics within locations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring features from concept to release
- Analyze player experience and gameplay data to identify improvements that support engagement and product KPIs
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional game design experience
- Strong experience designing core gameplay mechanics and complex game systems
- Experience with game economy, progression, balancing, and reward systems
- Ability to independently own and develop a feature from concept to release
- Experience with F2P and live games and a good understanding of player engagement and product goals
- Experience designing for multiple platforms, particularly PC and consoles
- Good understanding of level design, player flow, and gameplay spaces
- Strong documentation, communication, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Unity
- Experience with simulator or other system-heavy games
- Experience shipping games on PC and consoles
- Knowledge of and interest in fishing
Benefits
- 4-day work week
- Strong commitment to work-life balance
- Culture built on P.R.O.G.R.E.S.S. values (passion, responsibility, openness, growth, respect, efficiency, player-focus, and agility)
Additional details
- Fishing Planet is an independent game studio
- Game available on eight platforms: Steam, Epic Games, Microsoft Store, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android
- Global community of over 35 million players and continues to grow every day
- Committed to continuous improvement
- Providing team with resources, tools, and environment they need to build stable, rewarding, and long-term careers
- Creating ambitious games that players want to return to again and again