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Procura-se um Senior Game Designer (hibrido, Almada/Portugal) pela Kwalee, em que:
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What’s In It For You?
Hybrid working – 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
Flexible working hours – we trust you to choose how and when you work best
Profit sharing scheme – we win, you win
Private medical cover – delivered through BUPA
Life Assurance – for long term peace of mind
On site gym – take care of yourself
Relocation support – available
Quarterly Team Building days – we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior
Creative Wednesdays – come together to play games, share the latest trends and celebrate the success of teammates

What Does The Job Actually Involve?
Working as part of the design team and working closely with them to make our games as fun as they can be.
Taking responsibility for multiple mobile game projects, creating game design documents, diagrams and flowcharts.
Designing compelling game mechanics using modern mobile design principles.
Creating, balancing and tuning game mechanics, game difficulty and UI flow.
Creating levels and additional content using Unity, for new and existing games.
Evolving and adapting game designs based on play testing, feedback and live metrics.
Driving long term player engagement by understanding mobile players needs and motivations.

Your Hard Skills
A minimum of 5 years experience in a game design role with at least one published relevant game.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Knowledge of mobile free-to-play game monetisation and advertising techniques.
Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
Absolute passion for playing and making video games, especially mobile games.
Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.
Positive attitude, self driven, able to work alone or as part of a team.

Your Soft Skills
Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues.”
+infos(oficial): LINK
Procura-se um Game Designer (hibrido, Almada/Portugal) pela Kwalee, em que:
”
What’s In It For You?
Hybrid working – 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
Flexible working hours – we trust you to choose how and when you work best
Profit sharing scheme – we win, you win
Relocation support – available
Quarterly Team Building days
Creative Wednesdays – come together to play games, share the latest trends and celebrate the success of teammates

What Does The Job Actually Involve?
Working as part of the design team, taking responsibility for multiple mobile game projects, from an initial pitch all the way to global launch.
Keeping track of market trends and coming up with game ideas that will be well received by the ever-changing hybridcasual gaming audience.
Designing compelling game mechanics using modern mobile design principles.
Creating, balancing and tuning game mechanics, game difficulty and UI flow.
Creating levels and additional content using Unity, for new and existing games.
Evolving and adapting game designs based on play testing, feedback and live metrics.
Driving long term player engagement by understanding mobile players needs and motivations.

Your Hard Skills
A minimum of 2 years experience in a game design role with at least one published relevant game
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
Absolute passion for playing and making video games, especially mobile games.
Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.
Positive attitude, self driven, able to work alone or as part of a team.
Knowledge of mobile free-to-play game monetisation and advertising techniques.

Your Soft Skills
Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues.”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Senior Game Designer (remoto/Portugal) pela Fortis Games, em que:
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About The Role
Work with product leadership to design major systems and features for new game concepts.
Help direct and mentor other members of the product team.
Share learnings with the broader product team and contribute to the overall development of our product strategy and portfolio of games.

What You’ll Achieve
You will design core systems in our new games that are critical to their success by:
Creating proposals that articulate how these features and systems uphold the game’s design pillars and drive the desired player behaviors
Delivering clear, concise, and thorough specifications to cross functional teams responsible for implementing these systems
Providing team members with direction on how content should be created, tuned, and live operated within these systems
You will become an expert in the opportunity spaces, genres, and game mechanics you explore during prototyping and share your learnings with the broader product team to advance our collective knowledge.
You will develop an independent design philosophy that upholds the key tenets of Fortis’ approach to products while adding your own unique approach to thinking about emerging patterns in service design.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful
A holistic view of game systems and the downstream effects of all design decisions throughout both the product and player lifecycle.
A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.
Ability to articulate the nuances of abstract concepts and how they apply to complex, interrelated systems.
Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.
Extensive knowledge of games as a service and live operations – you know what good looks like and can build efficient design processes, workflows, and tooling to enable it.
Enthusiasm for directing, mentoring, and otherwise elevating the people around you to do their best work.
A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn – we believe this is essential to our ability to stay ahead of the market and value this over years of experience.”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Game Designer (Braga/Portugal) pela Exeedme, em que:
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Responsibilities
Develop gamification strategies for our existing features like matchmaking, tournaments, gacha games, in-game items trading, raffles, and subscriptions.
Research and advise on new features to enhance user experience and engagement.
Gather gamers’ feedback and identify improvements to be made.
Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with leadership, product managers and developers.
Work closely with the development team to ensure design and function are perfectly integrated.
Innovate on user acquisition and retention mechanics.
Illustrating gamification ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
Develop workflows that detail the product economy and the impact of new features.
Collaborate with product, marketing, and UX teams to implement effective gamification elements.
Be diligent and ensure quality of work in a fast paced, team based highly iterative development environment.

Who are you
Degree in Game Design, Computer Science, Psychology, or related fields.
Experienced gamification expert with 3+ years in game design or related fields, focusing on user engagement and retention.
Strong understanding of current gamification trends and ability to develop engaging mechanics.
Proficient in collaboration with product, marketing, and UX teams, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Skilled in managing time effectively and presenting concepts to teams and stakeholders.
Empathetic towards gamers and web3 users, using constraints creatively for problem-solving.
Familiar with blockchain technology in gaming and proficient in software tools like Figma, InVision, Storybook, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.

Bonus Points
Experience with Notion
Experience in Product Design
Experience working on video games for PC/mobile, competitive gaming platforms
Experience in web3 products
Ability to work onsite in our Braga, Portugal offices.”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Game Econimic Designer (remoto/Portugal), em que:
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What’s In It For You?
Hybrid working – 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
Flexible working hours – we trust you to choose how and when you work best
Profit sharing scheme – we win, you win
Private medical cover – delivered through BUPA
Life Assurance – for long term peace of mind
On site gym – take care of yourself
Relocation support – available
Quarterly Team Building days – we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior
Creative Wednesdays – come together to play games, share the latest trends and celebrate the success of teammates

Are You Up To The Challenge?
As a Game Economy Designer you will be responsible for finding the optimal balance in our games of them being Free to Play but Beneficial to Spend, helping to make sure our game economy is healthy and doesn’t get out of hand over time.

Your Team Mates
Your team is a diverse and creative group of designers from all around the world. Some are based in one of our offices, while others are working remotely. Instead of just being small cogs in a big machine, designers are given a large degree of freedom and responsibility over every game we make. What Does The Job Actually Involve?
Working closely with designers and the analytics team to develop the right inputs, and measurements for evaluating a games economic patterns.
Creating models for various interpretations of the game economy and forecasting player behaviours to find the right global maxima approach.
Collaborate with the Art Leads to find the right information hierarchy and UI conventions to get information across to the user in a tone and style appropriate to each game.
Working with the analytics department to understand the results of your work and the impact it has on player behaviour.
From paper to playable you will be able to visualise the desired UX, both in UX tools or in Unity.
Providing feedback based on your expertise on a wide range of games.

Your Hard Skills
A minimum of 2 years experience in an economy design or balancing role within gaming.
Can create models in industry standard tools to model player behaviours and the resultant economy impacts of those.
Can devise the parameters and measurements for effective AB testing of game economy variations.
Economics Degree or similar academic background
Coding / prototyping skills to be able to create a simulation of the game economy.
Experience of mobile game live ops, A/B testing and analytics.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
Absolute passion for playing and making video games, especially mobile games.
Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.
Positive attitude, self driven and able to work alone or as part of a team.”
+infos(oficial): LINK

Procura-se um Senior Game Designer (remoto/Portugal), em que:
”
About The Role
Work with product leadership to design major systems and features for new game concepts.
Help direct and mentor other members of the product team.
Share learnings with the broader product team and contribute to the overall development of our product strategy and portfolio of games.

What You’ll Achieve
You will design core systems in our new games that are critical to their success by:
Creating proposals that articulate how these features and systems uphold the game’s design pillars and drive the desired player behaviors
Delivering clear, concise, and thorough specifications to cross functional teams responsible for implementing these systems
Providing team members with direction on how content should be created, tuned, and live operated within these systems
You will become an expert in the opportunity spaces, genres, and game mechanics you explore during prototyping and share your learnings with the broader product team to advance our collective knowledge.
You will develop an independent design philosophy that upholds the key tenets of Fortis’ approach to products while adding your own unique approach to thinking about emerging patterns in service design.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful
A holistic view of game systems and the downstream effects of all design decisions throughout both the product and player lifecycle.
A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.
Ability to articulate the nuances of abstract concepts and how they apply to complex, interrelated systems.
Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.
Extensive knowledge of games as a service and live operations – you know what good looks like and can build efficient design processes, workflows, and tooling to enable it.
Enthusiasm for directing, mentoring, and otherwise elevating the people around you to do their best work.
A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn – we believe this is essential to our ability to stay ahead of the market and value this over years of experience.”
+infos(oficial): LINK