Join the adventure
Room-C Games is expanding its roster to tackle a challenging and exciting AA project with our partner Versus Evil.
We're looking for a talented Game Designer to join our growing studio and help us bring an extraordinary game world to life in Unreal Engine 5!
As a key member of the design team, you will be responsible for developing game systems, gameplay mechanics, as well as controls and interfaces. Reporting directly to the Project Director, you will create high quality feature designs and work closely with engineers, artists and audio designers to implement them to the highest standard, and transform our vision into a playable experience.
As a Game Designer you will:
Act as a champion of quality across the game team.
Create moments of exciting tactical gameplay, design combat skills which enable interesting synergies, balance and tune leveling and difficulty curves, as well as design social encounters in which players must balance their precious resources based on risk / reward assessment.
Be responsible for scripting combat encounters and objectives.
Use your deep understanding of RPGs and roguelikes, follow high level design and direction, but also have creative and critical thinking. You will have many opportunities to shape our game from the ground up.
You'll be able to bring your wide knowledge of gaming, game design and popular culture to make every aspect of our game world class.
Work closely with others in the team, bringing together narrative, art, code systems, UI, animation, audio and many other elements to create immersive gameplay.
Key responsibilities:
Design enemy unit skills and behavior.
Design player unit skills (creating synergy between unit classes).
Design combat and non-combat (exploration and social) encounters.
Fine-tune resource balancing across combat and non-combat encounters.
Design and balance power and difficulty curves across the game.
Design meta-progression features such as persistent upgrade paths.
Functional design of UI.
Coordinate tasks between programming, art, sound and writing.
Playtest the game.
Requirements:
2+ years experience in designing quests or combat models in games (either video games, or tabletop RPGs).
Strong knowledge of tactical and roguelike gameplay design principles, theories and trends.
Great writing, presenting and team communication skills.
Wide knowledge of gaming, game design and popular culture, with a special focus on roguelikes and turn-based tactical games (XCOM, Slay the Spire, The Banner Saga, etc).
Great problem solving skills.
A passion for creating and playing games.
Experience in game balancing.
Self driven and capable of working with little supervision.
Fluency in English (both written and spoken).
Bonus points:
You have shipped a game in any game design role. PC / console experience is an advantage.
Finished personal/indie game projects.
A degree in video game design or a related field.
Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5.
Experience with agile methodology.
What we offer:
Join a challenging but exciting project set in a well-known universe (project not publicly announced yet).
Work with cutting edge technology - Unreal Engine 5.
A friendly, relaxed work culture in a flat studio structure.
Opportunities to learn and grow as well as help others hone their skills.
A competitive salary and perks package.
Relocation assistance.
Flexible work hours: you can choose a 6, 7 or 8 hour work day model.
Flexible work location: on-site (in Zagreb), hybrid office/work-from-home (3+2 model) or fully remote (based on individual circumstances).