Game Designer (Full-time) at Next Genium

Game designer for a remote indie studio developing story-driven PC games. Full-time or part-time, salary 50,000-100,000 RUB gross for full-time.

Next Genium is a small indie studio developing story-driven PC games. We work without excessive bureaucracy: no producers above, multi-level approvals, or unreasonable reworks from scratch. A compact online team creates, develops, and releases games. We are developing several story-driven PC games. We don't make casual NFT projects—we make games we play ourselves and are proud to show to friends. Responsibilities: - Develop and balance game mechanics, assessing their impact on the project as a whole; - Test builds and log issues: performance, pacing, usability, and overall quality of game experience; - Formulate and manage tasks in the tracker in a clear way for the team; - Translate concepts into documentation, and documentation into implementation in builds; - Participate in polishing the project to presentation quality; - Reasoned discussion of decisions with the team and proposing alternatives; - Refine mechanics until they are enjoyable to play; - Design complex systems.

- Commercial experience in game development projects (1+ year); - Game literacy: knowledge of popular games across different genres (especially PC projects), ability to break them down: why a game is engaging, how its economy works, what makes its combat system good; - Solid knowledge of game design theory and practice; - Effective use of ChatGPT or similar tools; - Proficiency in Google Docs, Excel, Miro; basic skills in Confluence, Jira; - Clear communication and systems thinking. Nice to have: - Experience with Unreal Engine and Godot; - English at Intermediate level or higher.

- Flexible schedule: results matter more than presence—you plan your own working day; - Projects you can be proud of: we make games we play ourselves; - Support, growth prospects, a team of experienced specialists focused on results and open to knowledge sharing; - Fully remote work; - Access to internal and external studio tools; - Timely payment twice a month.