Game System Designer *

Do you know what the components of a game system are, how they relate to the gaming experience, and how they shape a game s business performance?

As a Game System Designer, you play a key role in the game design and development team. From the conceptualization stage to the final polish, you will translate high-level game concepts into complex models of game pace, balance, and economy. As part of the design team, and with your expertise, you are able to create economy and balance rules. You create and maintain the numerical/systems perspective on user behavior and game mechanics through understanding factors of fun and the reasons why people play and, ultimately, pay for the experience.

Support us in creating a fun, engaging, and outstanding player experience.

The passion for creating high-quality games and the focus on a superior customer experience have made GameDuell one of the largest cross-platform games communities in the world. Since 2003, more than 130 million players have played with us and we offer a broad portfolio of over 40 casual online skill games.

Tasks

Your tasks

• Conceptualize new end-to-end game systems, modeling a (complex) game economy and overall game pace and balance
• Take full ownership of game monetization, manage pricing of virtual goods, economy, and balancing of incentivized and purchased items in the game economy
• Define game specifications from initial concept to launch with monetization and playability testing to maximize user retention
• Design and map out game progression from a systems and monetization perspective
• Take responsibility for the quality of game systems, analyze content of our current games to design and drive meaningful changes or improvements to game design and monetization concepts
• Provide clear feature documentation, diagrams, calculation models, analyses, wireframes, and/or prototypes

Requirements

What we expect

• A completed university degree in game design, mathematics, psychology, or similar
• At least 3 years of proven successful game system design, balancing, pacing & monetization strategies for F2P games
• Detailed knowledge of the social gaming industry, free-to-play, and virtual goods business models on mobile platforms
• High ability to understand player motivations and merge them with business needs
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Very good analytical gameplay balancing skills
• Experience with production using a game engine such as Unity or a similar game engine is a plus
• Fluency in English is required, knowledge of German is an advantage

Benefits

What we offer

• Engaging tasks and new exciting challenges
• Independent work with interesting possibilities for your personal development
• Working directly with cross-discipline teams
• A versatile, friendly, and international team that guarantees fun on the job
• One of the best working spaces in Berlin: our well-situated office in Mitte! (Includes free soft drinks, fruit, pool table, table tennis, game events, sports courses, a sunny rooftop terrace, and much more)
• Flexible working hours

We are an ecological and socially sustainable company and have our very own Green Team where you can make an impact and actively implement ideas and initiatives to help protect our environment and for charity. As a games community, we take our social responsibility seriously. We are co-founders of the Leaders for Climate Action and have committed ourselves to becoming carbon neutral.

• We pay attention to environmental friendly and resource-efficient standards when purchasing our office and food supplies
• We match your charity donations
• Social responsibility begins with each of us. Our corporate culture is characterized by mutual trust and respect. Our open and international team welcomes and respects diversity

Contact us

Say "hello" to our recruiter Chi!

We look forward to receiving your application. Please send your application including possible starting date as PDF with the subject Game System Designer * .

*GameDuell is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices. Any terms referring to people are valid for all genders whether male, female, or diverse.