Game Designer

2 weeks ago


Stockholm, Sweden Skillsearch Limited Full time

Skillsearch seeks a talented and collaborative Game Designer to join a client's game studio in Stockholm. This is a full-time role that comes with a favourable salary and some excellent benefits.

As a Game Designer, you will be responsible for detailed design work on a project, writing, iterating and implementing designs for features and mechanics, delivering high quality, balanced and scalable systems and player experiences for a 3D PvP action game with large Live Service ambitions.

If you were already working in this role last week, here are some of the things you would be doing:

  • Design, establish and hone emergent gameplay systems, including destruction and physics, and elemental gameplay 
  • Design, implement, tweak and balance weapons and character abilities 
  • Game Camera, Character movement and control design 

To apply for this Game Designer role, your soft skills, expertise, and experience should include:

  • A good grasp of AAA PvP gameplay and systems design, including player psychology, UX design and gameplay mechanics 
  • Proficiency with the Unreal Engine and experience with Blueprints and scripting 
  • A creative and curious mind 
  • A good knowledge and familiarity with the various game maker disciplines, coding, animation, game physics, 3D art, etc 

In return for your passion, collaborative approach and commitment, you'll receive a generous salary and benefits package and join a friendly and inclusive culture.

To apply for this inclusive and collaborative full-time Game Designer job in Stockholm, please contact Kai from Skillsearch today at ks@skillsearch.com . We'd love to help you get your next role and enable you to fulfil your professional ambitions.

Here at Skillsearch, we're a recruitment company. In the simplest form, this means we place people at new companies - but it's so much more than that. For the past 30 years, we've been busy helping people (like you) with sought after skills find jobs in the Games, Interactive and Enterprise Systems industries all around the globe. Our company comprises a team of dedicated consultants that work across various niche technologies, including Games, Virtual Reality, AR and XR, Workday, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and eCommerce. We are always exploring other cutting-edge markets. Follow us to see a few of the jobs we're working on, find out which events you can see us at, and keep up with news in the technology, gaming and interactive world. Welcome to Skillsearch



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