Associate Game Designer

Fuse Games is seeking a creative, collaborative, and passionate Associate Game Designer to craft engaging and dynamic experiences for AAA games. The role involves contributing to game development by designing, implementing, and balancing features, working closely with senior designers and cross-discipline teams. Candidates should have a growth mindset, be proficient in engine exploration, ideation, and problem-solving, with a strong passion for games and a willingness to adapt and grow skills in a fast-moving industry.

Must Have

• Experience designing, implementing, and balancing features, ideally within AAA development
• A structured approach to problem-solving with a curiosity to understand HOW and WHY things work
• A passion and knowledge of games
• A willingness to work in a highly collaborative and friendly environment
• Contribute to the development of our games by crafting engaging and dynamic experiences that emotionally resonate with our players
• Collaborate closely with Senior Game Designers, Directors, and cross-discipline teams to create game and gameplay experiences across all areas of the game
• Hands-on role with the opportunity to exercise skills in both paper design and in-engine execution

Good to Have

• Prototyping skills and experience
• Experience designing game spanning systems that support the core fantasy of a game
• Enthusiasm for and practical knowledge of UX
• Experience with user testing and data-informed software development
• Experience working on both solo and multiplayer game loops
• Technical design skills, such as coding or scripting
• Experience in Unreal

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Culture that thrives off creativity and individuality
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid culture that allows everyone to find the right work/life balance
• Culture of learning and offer opportunities for people to learn new skills

Fuse Games. A love of games and a love of making games. We understand deeply how games are made from the simple starting points of a one-line idea, through concept, prototyping, pre-production and large scale, multi hundred-person development teams. This understanding is underpinned by the huge value of building high performing teams. We work hard to lead, grow, develop, and fuse our people together, with a clear vision and aligned constraints that are guided by our shared values. Bringing energetic, creative collaboration with a sense of urgency is essential to everything that we do. At Fuse it’s important for us all to create a space for everyone to feel safe and included in order to be responsibly open, generous and to be their best selves. We encourage curiosity to embrace diverse perspectives, being humble and leading by example. An Exciting Opportunity: We are looking for creative, collaborative, and passionate people with a growth mindset to help us build amazing games. For us, software is key, and we need talented folks who are happiest in engine exploring, ideating, sharing, and working with a sense of urgency. The games industry is an ever-evolving fast moving one, so we’d love to have people on board who aren’t afraid to adapt, grow their skills and push both themselves and how we make games at Fuse. What an Associate Game Designer does at Fuse Games: Fuse Games is currently seeking an Associate Game Designer to contribute to the development of our games by crafting engaging and dynamic experiences that emotionally resonate with our players. At Fuse Games we practice Experience-Driven Game Design. Rather than building our games from the ground up, we take a top-down approach: we start with the WHY, not with the WHAT. We have an uncompromising approach to game feel, but our overall goal is to craft incredible player experiences out of the highest quality ingredients. Ideally you are someone with an inquiring mind and a passion for games who wants to help create AAA entertainment. You will collaborate closely with Senior Game Designers, Directors, and cross-discipline teams to create game and gameplay experiences across all areas of the game. This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to exercise skills in both paper design and in-engine execution. We are looking for talented folks with a growth mindset and proficiency in these areas: * Experience designing, implementing, and balancing features, ideally within AAA development. * A structured approach to problem-solving with a curiosity to understand HOW and WHY things work. * A passion and knowledge of games. * A willingness to work in a highly collaborative and friendly environment. Additional attributes we appreciate, but that are not essential: * Prototyping skills and experience. * Experience designing game spanning systems that support the core fantasy of a game. * Enthusiasm for and practical knowledge of UX. * Experience with user testing and data-informed software development. * Experience working on both solo and multiplayer game loops. * Technical design skills, such as coding or scripting. * Experience in Unreal. What’s in it for you? Glad you asked! We realise it takes world-class people to make world-class games, so we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. We know we’re making games differently now and understand that family is important so offer flexible working hours and a hybrid culture that allows everyone to find the right work/life balance. In addition, we want people to grow and expand their horizons, so we promote a culture of learning and offer opportunities for people to learn new skills. Apply for This Job