Regular/Senior Game Designer a.k.a. Master Joy Charmer

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Vile Monarch, a hard rock games studio from Warsaw, is looking for someone who wields the ancient secrets of order and tidiness in naturally chaotic and filthy game projects. Currently almost 80 royal followers reign in the studio, including veterans (who worked on This War of Mine, The Witcher series, Dying Light or Hard West), that in 7 years shipped 5 successful games, conquering PC, Android, iOS, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.

Growing Up - a life sim with visual novel elements, standing out with its unique art and mature take on childhood/parenting
Weedcraft Inc - ambitious tycoon game about the marijuana industry
Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator series - hit party games based on building absurd sentences
Crush Your Enemies - multiplatform bite-sized RTS

Vile Monarch feeds on creativity - we love making fresh things of different sizes, for different platforms, in different genres. We focus on compelling fantasies served through expertly designed game systems. Currently we're working on several unannounced titles: each very different, there's realism and fantasy among them, humor and maturity, 3D art and 2D. Each of these projects is ambitious and in some way bigger then any previous VM games.

In the role you will be responsible for:

• Designing and tweaking game systems to fit core fantasy and players' expectations
• Balancing parameters to get compelling gameplay and engaging pacing
• Designing interesting and motivating progression
• Preparing and implementing content in a game engine
• Cooperation with Level Designers, Artists and QA to improve the player's experience

To be succesful in this role you must have:

• Experience in game design - finished projects and at least 3 years of experience as a designer
• Proficiency in system design (for example stuff related to economy, crafting, resource management or progression)
• Ability to work in Unity Engine
• Empathy and understanding for the audience, creating approachable, elegant mechanics
• Ability to briefly and precisely communicate the ideas, tidiness and regime in documentation - well organized work style
• Very good English, both spoken and written
• Love for games and knowledge of various platforms and genres

I will be nice to have if:

• You have an experience in managing teams of designers or other developers
• You have already participated in projects in genres such as management, sim or strategy
• You are experienced with office tools, especially spreadsheets
• You have some UX design experience
• You love beer, rock music and have embarrassing tattoos

You already know the scope of duties in this role and the requirements, now you will find out what you can expect during this recruitment:

• If your application will be acceped, you will be invited for the first general interview
• Then you will receive a recruitment task
• If the task will be done on appropriate level, you will take part in final interview which will be more focused on technical aspects of the work
• If you pass all the above stages positively, you will probably receive a cooperation offer from us

We offer:

• Fair salary
• Important role in an ambitious game (or games!). We aim for compact, mid-scale projects (1-2 years of development, 10-30 people)
• Stable job with flexible work hours
• Working in a comfortable office close to a metro station (Dworzec Gdański), overlooking the whole of Warsaw … OR in the heart of Wrocław, among universities and beautiful old townhouses (plac Grunwaldzki)
• Possibility of fully remote work (but regular visits are a strong nice-to-have)
• Encouragement for self-development: we often sponsor conference attendance, organize in-house lectures and organize courses with a language school
• Library of specialistic books and workshops about game design
• Emphasis on mutual care and mental health (including professional support)
• Very informal, friendly atmosphere - gaming and partying together, company trips, a fridge full of beer
• Private medical care, MultiSport benefit cards

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