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Lead Game Designer (m/f/d)

Posted: about 1 year
Design
Full-Time
Lead / Principal
Anywhere
YOUR MISSION

We are looking for a Lead Game Designer for our Game Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore. We offer you the opportunity to work with us on our open-world multiplayer game that redefines the survival game genre. As a fully remote studio, you can work with talents worldwide to build this exciting game. Your experience in Unreal Engine 5 and the survival or open-world game genre will help us bring new ideas into this genre.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Lead a group of gameplay and level designers with different experience levels, managing their workload and mentoring them.

  • Understanding of high-level design requests and the ability to translate them into low-level design documents.

  • Work with the group of discipline and project leads, and facilitate the decision-making process with stakeholders, supporting whenever questions arise. 

  • Hands-on in-engine work with balancing, prototyping, etc.

  • Supervise the design process and ensure communication across teams is clear and structured. 

  • Collaborating across disciplines, teams, and time zones to ensure that features are designed and implemented best.

YOUR PROFILE
  • 5+ years of experience as a Game Designer, with previous experience as a Lead or directly managing a team of designers.

  • Excellent understanding of game design fundamentals.

  • Great knowledge of what makes a gameplay experience engaging. 

  • You take ownership and can solve problems self-sufficiently.

  • Excellent communication skills.

  • Extensive knowledge in either open-world, survival, or MMORPG.

PREFERRED
  • Extensive knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, Unreal Engine 4

  • Strong knowledge of scripting languages, preferably Unreal Engine Blueprints.

WHY US?
  • The experience of creating something from scratch with your contribution is not necessarily limited to engineering.
  • The most common answer to "What makes Blankhans special" is: The respectful team and that we are having fun together.
  • Be a part of a diverse international team with highly qualified and dedicated colleagues.
  • The possibility to work entirely remotely with occasional workshops.
  • A lean organisation with growth potential.
  • Receive a competitive salary in accordance with your market area.
Do you want to be part of our story? Help build a live service that is fun for players around the globe and be a part of our journey to craft a terrific game studio.
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About Blankhans GmbH

WE ARE BLANKHANS

Our founding team consists of games, game technology, media, and entrepreneurial leaders striving to build live services that last decades. We value the craftsmanship of classic game-making and the iterative world of live games. Our culture is “Fun.” We genuinely believe that only a team that enjoys what they are doing for a living, where the route is the goal, will achieve the impossible. 

Blankhans is a decentralised game studio born in a world where work has to fit into people's lives and not life into work. We aim for maximum transparency and trust in our teams and ask for nothing less than your professional dedication.

This is Blankhans. A business. A family. Crafting virtual worlds that are here to stay.

‍Do you want to be part of our story? Help build a live service that is fun for players around the globe and be a part of our journey to craft a terrific game studio. Check out our “How we work” to get an impression of where we are and what you will help to iterate.

Featured Game

Coreborn is a social survival sandbox game trying to modernize the genre by combining an instanced social hub where the whole game population can meet, trade, and socialize with a persistent survival sandbox world where the player is exploring the world of Tormentosia. The author of Coreborn Hauke Gerdes is Creative Director and Co-Founder. Coreborn is based on the most famous German Pen & Paper show with Millions of views on YouTube, thousands of fan art, and a vibrant community. The game is built as a free-to-play live service and is planned to release on all platforms.

Blankhans, the company behind the Coreborn game, recently finished its Series Seed and got funded by the leading global games fund Griffin Gaming Partners. For more info on our game, visit our Website and our Discord.

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