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Game Designer

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 6 billion downloads and over 300 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #2 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google.

The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL. Deciding to expand its portfolio of products further, Voodoo has more recently announced that it will invest $200M in blockchain gaming studios, to lead the transformation of mobile gaming.

Voodoo is now a team of over 700 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to come and entertain the world with us.

Voodoo's Gaming business unit is made up of hyper-casual, hybrid-casual, casual, mid-core and blockchain experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.

You will be one of our first employees in Romania, as part of Digital Candy, the first Voodoo studio in Romania. The studio is located in Bucharest, where a small team is currently being recruited. We aim to create 2 magical pairs of developers and artists and enable them to start prototyping right away to find the next hyper-casual big hit.

Role

• Great sense of what’s a fun & snackable gameplay experience for a mass audience
• Can ease the workflow (building a good pipeline, creating reusable templates, creating procedural level designs)
• Create intuitive mobile games in a very fast-paced iterative process
• Designing games from A to Z: gameplay, FTUE, levels, environments, reward systems, difficulty, balancing etc
• Creating gameplay prototypes and a database of gameplay concepts that could be used in the future
• Working within a lightning-fast prototyping pipeline, improving the pipeline and reducing lead time

This is a role with high ownership in an agile studio; where working as a reliable teammate is a success factor. With this role, you will have a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to our brainstorming process and important decisions. Flesh out the details of a game's design, test out your ideas, and revise the game in response to data & player feedback. Unleash your creativity so we can entertain millions of players with fresh games.

Profile

• At least 2 to 3 years of experience as a game designer with Unity (XP with hyper-casual is a big plus)
• A track record working on mobile games, having released at least 2 games
• You are used to game prototyping and have participated in game jams
• Solid knowledge about Game Design including game mechanics, level design, and UI/UX
• Experienced with creating mock-ups and wireframe designs
• Creative problem-solving skills to address a diversity of game design issues every day, including but not limited to gameplay, level, interface, etc
• Experience with balancing game systems (difficulty, reward, monetization, etc)
• You enjoy playing mobile games, especially hyper-casual
• Passionate about finding trends, gameplay, and game mechanics
• Good level of English (both writing and speaking)
• Great communication skills
• Versatile, can adapt quickly, and move fast