Game Designer

Details

• Position
  Line Producer
• Start Date
  Nov 27, 2025 — Nov 30, 2025
• Location
  New Jersey, USA
• Rate
  This is a paid position. Rate is 600

Job Description

The primary goal of a Game Designer is to ensure the game is fun, engaging, and achieves its intended vision. Their day-to-day responsibilities typically include:

Conceptualization and Vision: Generating the initial concept, theme, core gameplay loop, and overall vision for the game.

Design Documentation: Creating and maintaining detailed design documents (often called "GDDs" or Game Design Documents) that specify every element of the game, including rules, controls, characters, environments, and user interface (UI).

Gameplay Mechanics: Defining and balancing the core rules and interactive systems of the game (e.g., combat, movement, crafting, economy, and progression).

Prototyping and Iteration: Creating rough, playable versions (prototypes) of mechanics to test and validate ideas. They continuously iterate on the design based on playtesting feedback and data analysis.

Level and Content Design: Working with level designers (sometimes doing the job themselves) to plan the layout, puzzles, challenges, and pacing of individual levels or game areas.

Narrative and Storytelling: Developing the game's plot, story arc, character backstories, dialogue, and lore, often collaborating with a Narrative Designer.
Link: https://papas-games.io/

Collaboration: Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, including Game Developers/Programmers (to implement the design), Artists (to create visual assets), and Sound Designers.