Game Designer (Balance and Economy)

Responsibilities:

• Break down the existing economy of a project, collect and structure its parameters.
• Build economy models in spreadsheets.
• Calculate progression, resource sources and sinks, the cost of in-game entities, and the pace at which players obtain them.
• Find imbalances and report the problems you uncover.
• Model changes, prepare new versions of the economy, and recalculate when the inputs change.
• Discuss solutions with the Head of Monetization.
• Build your own tools when a task calls for them.
• Later on, work with analytics to validate your models against real player data.

What we are looking for:

• The ability to build, calculate, and recalculate game economies: resource sources and sinks, the cost of progression, accumulation rates, upgrades, rewards, and so on.
• A good understanding of basic math. Advanced higher math is not required.
• Attention to detail, patience, and accuracy when working with large tables and a large number of interconnected parameters.
• Logical thinking and the ability to check your results against common sense: to notice contradictions, anomalous values, and errors in models.
• The ability to figure out a system on your own, and to understand not just what a formula returns but why it returns that value.
• The habit of reporting the vulnerabilities and problems you find instead of keeping them to yourself.
• The ability to work with analytics for self-checking, either doing it yourself or setting the right tasks for verification.
• No fear of AI tools, along with the ability to apply them in your work or the willingness to learn them.
• The ability to create your own tools to solve your tasks.
• Experience in game development.

What would be a plus:

• Experience with games with a complex, multi-layered economy: 4X, RPG, strategy, battlers, midcore and live service projects, and others with a lot of resources, progression, and interconnected systems.
• Experience working with configs and analytics.