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Game Designer (Contract) - Legends of Runeterra

Legends of Runeterra (LoR) is our new collectible card game (CCG) featuring beloved Champions from the League of Legends universe. On our team, we’re looking for Content Game Designers to design experiences! 

As a Game Designer reporting to the content Design Manager, you will design and improve the gameplay experience through the lens of content: cards! Your analysis, player insight, and creativity will help create in-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will work with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to design and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand the relevant audiences for the product, and from this, calibrate your design expertise to reflect appropriate taste for these audiences
• Articulate and consider a scope and depth of possible solutions, including possible consequences, and collaboratively reach the best solution
• Identify and evaluate problems using player data, internal playtests, and subject matter expertise
• Design content with thematics to resonate globally
• Create content that contributes to a diverse, healthy gameplay experience
• Implement content with our scripting tools
• Apply and build an analytical approach to design - identify what is compelling, how that translates to other contexts, and articulate why it works
• Perform and perfect unique solutions within your area of responsibility
• Improve existing design frameworks, and create new ones
• Engage with other team members, providing support
• Openly share work and seek feedback from other developers. Combine co-worker and player feedback to calibrate design direction
• Choose appropriate means of communicating design intent to other developers

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience as a professional game designer
• Content design ability, demonstrated in having designed game content or systems, or the equivalent
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with scripting languages making content
• Experience working with or playing PvP strategy games

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