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Level Designer

Gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular mobile titles like 1010!, Six!, and Merge Dragons! and we have more awesome projects in the pipeline. We do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy, and impact. We'll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload.

As a Level Designer here at Gram, you’ll find yourself in a cross-functional role, working with developers, game artists, gameplay analysts, and the marketing teams, to create engaging, original games. You’d be expected to work with many styles of games, anything from minimalist puzzlers to engaging IAP titles, and to participate actively in their development. Using the extensive data we have on hand, you’d be expected to drive level design and to ensure that we produce the optimal games for our players.

At Gram, you know what makes a game both fun and successful. Here you’ll have the freedom to utilize the technical, analytical, and artistic capabilities of Gram Games to their full extent, creating titles that will be enjoyed by millions around the world. It’s up to you to make sure we’re producing titles at the top of our game, that we’re utilizing our team to its full potential. It’s up to you to help us push our creative limits. You’re there to bring us all together, to take advantage of each of our unique skills and ideas, and to turn them into games enjoyed and praised around the world.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

You’ll own the level design process from ideation, concept creation, layout, and puzzle design utilizing the existing items, mechanics, and tools as well as creating new mechanics and items to be utilized within the levels, coming up with ideas and designs for new tools to be used in the level design process and coordinating final art polish. You’ll be working with data scientists, artists, game developers, creative leaders, and other designers to create playful environments using your imagination that will adhere to the vision for the game.

Requirements

• Proven Level Design experience in puzzle and adventure games, methodical approach to designing and implementing engaging and vibrant levels in mobile games, and with F2P business model
• Proficient with spreadsheet software (Excel, Google sheets), can make models, can analyze existing data, make meaningful decisions utilizing data, and visually present results
• Has strong knowledge of game progression, balancing, and pacing
• Work with art, creative leadership, and other designers to create environments that adhere to the vision for the game
• Take constructive feedback from repeated playtest to “find the fun” and iteration to craft quality levels
• Solicit, organize, and distill feedback from within the team and the broader organization
• A passionate fan of the puzzle genre and understands what makes their favorite maps and levels great. Applying these learnings to new levels in our world.
• Natural storyteller, through the game environment itself. Understanding that storytelling is a function of visual elements, gameplay moments, and the interaction of systems and environments in novel ways that continually surprise and delight the player
• Self-motivated, driven, resourceful, independent
• Has excellent communication skills in English

It would also be great if you have -

…..some experience with a programming or scripting language, especially C#

…..experience with the Unity3D editor and Adobe Photoshop

…..excellent understanding of using modular level design tools

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top priority role, we can offer some of the best benefits in the Games industry!

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Relocation assistance for those moving to Turkey
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!