Senior Economy & System Designer | Minecraft Blast, New Games
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Minecraft Blast
Join our New Games Studio and help build the next generation of King experiences. Were developing Minecraft Blast a new casual puzzle adventure set in a playful interpretation of the Minecraft universe and were looking for a talented System & Economy Designer to shape its economy progression and meta systems.
As a Senior System & Economy Designer you will play a pivotal role in defining how players engage with the game over time. You will craft the systems loops and economies that drive retention progression and monetisation while ensuring the player experience feels fair delightful and distinctly Minecraft.
Your Role Within Our Kingdom
In this role you will champion economy design thinking across the team and collaborate closely with Creative Leadership. You will:
Develop the holistic casual game economy meta systems and feature frameworksfor Minecraft Blast.
Build balance and maintain game economy models and simulations to predictplayer behaviour and feature impact.
Use quantitative and qualitative insights to tune progression rewards sinks sourcespacing and difficulty curves.
Design new systems including meta features events and monetisation mechanics balancing retention engagement and revenue in a player-centric casual mobileappropriate way.
Partner with Art Product Data Science Engineering and other Designers to alignfeatures with the creative vision and business goals.
Perform regular market research and deconstruct competitor titles to identify opportunities and emerging trends in free-to-play puzzle games.
Communicate clearly with senior leaders building alignment around proposalsmodels decisions and expected outcomes.
Contribute to Kings economy design community by sharing knowledge reviewing peers work and helping evolve our craft.
Skills to Create Thrills
Enthusiastic about casual mobile games systems design and the craft of gameeconomies.
Proven experience building tuning and operating casual economies in mobile free-to-play games both in production and live operation.
Strong analytical skills with fluency in modelling tools data-driven decision makingand player behaviour analysis.
Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and reconciling creative technical and business perspectives.
Strong planning and organisational skills capable of driving strategic game economyinitiatives to completion.
Clear and effective communicator verbally visually and in written documentation.
Comfortable in a fast-moving collaborative environment where responsibilitiesevolve as the game grows.
A team player who enjoys working closely with designers analysts and productpartners from diverse backgrounds.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the worlds most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has Kingsters in Stockholm Malmö London Barcelona Berlin Dublin San Francisco New York Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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About Company
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