Middle Game Designer

Founded in 2012, N-iX Games is one of the biggest game development and art production vendors in Ukraine, working with leading publishers and media enterprises around the globe. The team of 240+ professionals focuses on full-cycle game development, VR solutions, and content creation for all the most popular platforms. The studio has successfully collaborated with over 40 clients, including Paradox Interactive, Tempo Storm, Supermassive Games, and VRChat.

At N-iX Games, we strive to deliver AAA quality of our work and looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you are excited about the opportunity to collaborate and grow among passionate experts — we invite you to our team!

As a Game Designer in our team, you will shape unique and engaging gameplay experiences inspired by modern indie game trends. You’ll craft innovative mechanics, propose fresh ideas, and work closely with the team and clients to bring concepts to life, balancing creativity with playability through testing and iteration.

Requirements:

• Understanding of modern indie games trends
• Understanding of different game genre mechanics, core gameplay and metagame
• Good writing skills and ability to describe thoughts in a structured but simple manner
• Passion for making and playing games
• Involvement in released games of any caliber and/or modding
• Upper-Intermediate English or higher including verbal

Responsibilities:

• Creating concept documents and game design documents, working with R&D team on client proposals
• Propose engaging and creative gameplay features that will improve user experience and engagement
• Game balancing
• Ideation, feature design
• Communicating with clients
• Playtesting and design debugging
• Work directly with the team to ensure that the product is of the highest quality

Nice to have:

• Understanding of viral trends in games
• Mathematics / combinatorics background
• Practical experience with Unity and/or UE4
• Experience in level design
• Copywriting skills

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers