Game Designer

5 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

Emerald City Games is seeking a skilled Game Designer to join their team. The role involves analyzing mobile game titles, providing feedback to other designers, documenting and communicating game systems, tuning and iterating on game balance, analyzing live-product data, playtesting new features, and building free-to-play mobile games. The company emphasizes a strong work ethic, collaborative environment, and a supportive culture. They value individuals who are excellent at their craft, work hard, and get along well with others. The company is independent and known for creating its own worlds and choosing the games they want to make.
Must have:
  • Analyze mobile titles for gameplay.
  • Give feedback to other game designers.
  • Document and communicate game systems.
  • Tune and iterate on game balance.
  • Analyze and report on live-product data.
  • Playtest and provide feedback on features.
  • Build free-to-play mobile games.

Job Details

Emerald City Games is a collection of the best designers, developers and artists, and we’re looking for an awesome Game Designer to join our team!

Ideally someone that can handle a variety of different tasks who has a great work ethic and attitude. Your school experience and resume don’t really mean a lot here.

Your day to day tasks will include:

  • Analyze mobile titles for gameplay and other systems relevant to the game(s) you’re working on

  • Review and give feedback to other game designers in a collaborative environment

  • Document and communicate game systems to other disciplines with input from other designers

  • Tune and iterate on game balance or other gameplay systems on live projects and new titles in development

  • Analyze and report on live-product data

  • Playtest and provide feedback on in-development features and new products

  • Build free-to-play mobile games that you yourself would want to play!

Emerald City Games is unique, even by industry standards. It’s a great culture, that has you inspired every day. You need to be able to check off the following:

  • Be really good at what you do. We have a high standard. We like to give our devs a lot of responsibility and ownership.

  • Work hard. We want people to roll up their sleeves when they need to, while supporting and encouraging others!

  • Get along well with others. At ECG we see everyone as family. We pride ourselves on creating an environment that is supportive and offers equal opportunity for everyone!

We are 100% independent. We create our own worlds, we choose to work on the games we want to make, and you will not find a more talented, inspiring, down-to-earth group to join. Drop us a line if you’re interested in being a part of it.

Check out this video to get a sense of what the culture is like here.

Oh, and don’t think you need to be in Canada to apply. Our company has a long history of obtaining work visas. We want to work with the best, and we don’t let borders stop us.

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About The Company

Our office is located beautiful Burnaby, British Columbia with a view that looks out over the northern mountains. Our office has around 49 in-house developers, but we’re a studio with a global reach.

Founded in 2008, Emerald City Games is a studio about pushing the boundaries in gameplay and art. We first launched with Sacred Seasons 1 and Sacred Seasons 2 on web before launching with Lionheart Tactics and Stormblades on mobile platforms. Our next games will take our critical success even further as we work with top publishers from around the world to create the next Top 10 games for mobile.

We practice an Open Office Environment™ without walls. It’s even easier to share ideas, techniques and even casual news with other developers.

As an employer our focus is on diversity and finding talented individuals from across the world to work on the cutting edge of mobile game development. Whether you’re willing to move to Vancouver or work remotely from your home country, there’s a place for you at Emerald City Games. If this sounds like something that interests you, get in touch! We would love to hear from you. 

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