Junior Game Designer – Star Wars Digital Collectible Card Game

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Junior Game Designer to join our Game Design team and play a key role in crafting an innovative Star Wars digital Collectible Card Game (CCG). This is an exciting opportunity to join early in the development cycle of a title featuring a high-powered thematic license, helping to design engaging content, systems, and game modes.

As a member of the Design Team, you will have a hand in crafting an all-new CCG. We are seeking designers who want to be on the ground floor of an exciting new game to fill roles for card design, gameplay balance, and the development of additional modes of play. No professional experience required, however some formal knowledge of game design theory and significant experience playing CCGs are major pluses.

Responsibilities

• Design cards, build decks and playtest, and deliver feedback on play patterns, power balancing, complexity for PVP and PVE gameplay.
• Develop and maintain Game Design Documents and other design materials.
• Monitor industry trends and analyze competitor products.
• Extract and document feedback from playtest and focus groups.
• Learn the vast intellectual property that our game is centered around.
• Be receptive to mentorship from senior members of the game design team.

Requirements

• Strong potential as a game designer as demonstrated via a design test.
• Ability to learn the department’s design philosophies and approaches to design.
• High potential to cultivate maturity as a critical thinker; from day one you should be striving for:

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Balanced approach to risk analysis and cost/benefit analysis of design decisions

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Ability to deconstruct game experiences with empathy for the player

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Ability to clearly and granularly articulate your deconstruction of game experiences

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The capacity to be uncertain and to granulate your confidence in your opinions according to each unique challenge and your own development as a designer

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As a junior member of the design team, it’s important that you show us a willingness to learn and a willingness to be collaborative with your ideas, as well as to allow rejection.

• Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace tools.

Pluses

• Competitive success as a gamer
• Experience playing Collectible Card Games / Trading Card Games
• Passion for CCGs, game systems design, and player engagement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Job Type

• Full-time in-office position
• Full benefits package
• Salary Range 65,000 - 75,000
• Location: Lake Forest, CA (Orange County)

We are an equal-opportunity employer and highly value diversity and inclusion. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States to be considered.