Experienced Game Designer

Come work with us at our Karlshamn office!
Thunderful is a company formed by a number of small indies companies coming together to make something greater than they could have done independently. With roots in the award-winning SteamWorld series, known for its frequent genre-hopping and inclusive design, we have an experienced teams working on games like The Gunk, Lost in Random and other, un-announced but equally charming titles.

About the role
The Station is looking for an experienced Game Designer for future projects!
“Ideas are cheap” as the saying goes, and although we hope you come loaded with amazing ideas and concepts to add to the ones we already have, what we are really looking for is somebody with the experience, drive and competence to develop ideas and concepts into comprehensive game designs and amazing games!

The role includes:

• Collaborate with other game designers to realize the game’s vision.
• Take ownership over delegated areas of game design.
• Develop game projects from concept to a complete design, including game systems, user experience, * game mechanics and much, much more.
• Iteratively prototype, test and tweak different aspects of game designs
• Further develop and enhance existing projects.
• Compose and manage detailed documentation that covers all the components of the game design.
• Team up with programmers, artists and other designers to develop game systems and mechanics.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years of previous experience in the games industry as a Game Designer.
• Experience from at least 3 full game cycles, from concept and pre-production to release.
• Experience in design of game mechanics and game systems, implementation and prototyping.
• Experience in balancing and iterative development of game mechanics, systems and user experience.
• The ability to take ownership of systems and develop them further to a polished and finished state.
• A self-starter with great communication and writing skills.
• Game enthusiast with a good understanding of the player perspective and a commitment to the user experience.
• Experience working in Unity or other 3D game engines.

Bonus Points:

• Programming experience.
• UI/UX design experience.
• Interest in narrative design and system driven games.
• Wide scope of interest in different media and genres.

What we offer:

• Collective Agreement - Tekniktjänsteavtalet (+ union club)
• Pension plan (tjänstepension)
• Paid overtime
• Flexible work hours
• Yearly wellness grant (friskvårdsbidrag)
• Occupational Health Care
• Weekly Wellness activity hour