Junior Game Economy Designer

Responsibilities

• Working closely with designers and the analytics team to develop the right inputs, and measurements for evaluating a game's 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.

Requirements

• A minimum of 1 year experience in an economy design or balancing role within gaming or a game economy design degree. Personal projects can count as experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• Excellent numerical skills, understanding of ratios and relationships between various data sets.
• Good or excellent grasp of Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge of SQL.