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Game Economy Designer
4 years ago
Job Description
Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is looking for a designer to support the development and balancing of game economies, meta frameworks, and system interactions. The ideal candidate will have a background in free-to-play games and relevant experience in similar positions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the economic foundation for our games, including relevant currencies, systems, sinks, and faucets via predictive and extendable spreadsheets and formulae.
- Balance core gameplay alongside meta progression loops, allowing for in-depth strategic growth and decision-making that will drive long-term player investment, engagement, and competition.
- Define and balance virtual products with the development and Live Operations teams. Understand how each purchase point influences (and is encouraged by) game dynamics.
- Identify the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers.
- Balance the needs for those virtual products, their relation, life cycle, and their streams of availability.
- Regularly utilize business intelligence, market research, and user feedback alongside personal expertise and understanding to balance gameplay, meta, and virtual goods during game development and post-release.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of each feature and compare it to our competitor games to develop a robust understanding of the genre of the game and game mechanics.
Key Skills:
- Strong, well-founded intuition regarding the intersection between game and economy balance, player experience, and consistent, long-term engagement and monetization.
- Ability to construct gameplay balance and economy spreadsheets quickly, with interlinked formulae and predictive results intended to minimize trial/error process.
- F2P gaming background. This is mandatory.
- Mastery of Excel.
- Strong numerical and gameplay balancing abilities.
- Good analytical and reporting skills.
- Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the mobile free-to-play market.
- Previous work in a similar position is a plus.
- Experience with balancing and maintaining competitive multiplayer strategy titles is a plus.
Qualifications
- BA / BS degree.
- At least 2 years of experience working on free-to-play games
Additional Information
We are a multicultural team with 26 nationalities in 60 people. 100% of our teams are expats and we offer end to end relocation to UAE for self and family plus some exciting benefits and perks.
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Company Description
Opened in October 2011, Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is one of the first major video game studios based in the UAE capital and is focusing on developing and bringing to market successful mobile games for a worldwide audience.
Ubisoft Abu Dhabi successfully released two hidden-object / investigation free-to-play mobile titles: CSI: Hidden Crimes™ and NCIS: Hidden Crimes™, both based on the worldwide known TV shows of the same name. With the acquisition in February 2017 of the massive multiplayer free-to-play game Growtopia, the studio works on the title’s live operations.
The team keeps focusing its efforts on creating further content for its live games and strengthening its player’s engagement in addition to work on other unannounced projects.
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