Double Loop Games

Double Loop Games is looking for a Lead Game Designer to design gameplay and content for a new, original mobile game.

Who we are

We are a well-funded mobile game start-up focused on making delightful, relaxing experiences for the biggest audience in games: people who don’t think of themselves as gamers.

We're building an environment that's transparent, respectful, and family-friendly. Our current team is in California and Oregon, but we're happy to work with people remotely anywhere in the Americas. Diverse candidates encouraged. Kindness expected.

Who do we want

Double Loop Games is looking for an experienced Lead Game Designer to help design and implement gameplay interactions and levels. The ideal candidate has a wealth of experience designing, testing, and tuning casual to midcore F2P gameplay systems, cinematics, levels and content. This designer will also be responsible for reviewing & giving feedback to bring a portion of the game to final polish level -- extremely high attention to detail is required. They should showcase a track record of high quality work and enthusiasm for their craft, and be experienced using Unity.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Game Director to design F2P gameplay and metagame systems. Review and test them in game, owning the feedback process of bringing them to a final, shippable polish level
• Use Unity and our custom tools to build levels and input/configure levels and large quantities of data for content unlocks & rollout. The Lead Game Designer will create first pass tuning, but an Economy Designer will provide final tuning
• Work with a Narrative Designer and Artist to design tutorial & cinematic sequences that meld with gameplay. Review them in game, giving multiple rounds of feedback, and own the process of bringing them to final, shippable polish level
• Design & iterate on content unlock & rollout
• Integrate and finalize work in-engine

Qualifications

• 4+ years industry experience
• Portfolio showcasing F2P mobile games you have worked on
• Ability to iterate quickly
• Extreme attention to detail
• Excellent communication and planning skills
• Ability to design and configure large data sets with care
• Experience with source control
• Experience with Unity
• Experience with using playtest feedback and live player data to re-tune data
• Ability to communicate in English, both verbally and written
• Conscientious and self-motivated

Huge plusses

• Experience working in Github
• Experience with pre-planning content & mechanic rollout and difficulty curves to tune against
• Experience designing, reviewing, and finalizing tutorials/narrative/cinematics
• Experience managing and mentoring other designers
• Experience balancing portions of a F2P economy
• A love of relaxing, delightful gameplay, and beautiful worlds filled with both outdoor spaces and intimate village life
• A strong desire to step outside of your comfort zone and learn new things

What are we offering?

• Full-time role with benefits
• Interesting, highly original work in a small, supportive and well-funded start-up led by two women who are industry veterans
• Flexible working arrangements. Work from home wherever you may be as long as you have a reasonable number of overlapping hours with the pacific time zone (+/- 3 hours for this role) and fast, reliable internet connection

Please send your full resume, references, and anything else you think we should see to jobs@doubleloopgames.com. Candidates should also be prepared for a design test, if necessary.