Devoted Studios is a globally remote game development company looking for a Gameplay Designer to help shape responsive, satisfying, and scalable gameplay experiences across co-development projects. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of gameplay, combat, or systems design experience and proficiency in Unreal Engine 5.
Requirements
- Design, prototype, implement, and iterate on player combat mechanics, including attacks, dodges, counters, cooldowns, combos, timing windows, and other core gameplay interactions.
- Design and tune player ability kits, skill systems, and progression hooks, defining their inputs, effects, interactions, upgrade paths, and gameplay roles.
- Work directly in Unreal Engine 5 to build and iterate on gameplay systems, with strong hands-on use of Blueprints for implementation, prototyping, and tuning.
- Collaborate closely with gameplay engineers to support implementation, extend features, and work with light scripting in C++ where needed.
- Tune moment-to-moment combat feel, including responsiveness, readability, hit reactions, feedback timing, damage communication, and overall player satisfaction.
- Design enemy archetypes, combat scenarios, and encounter structures that create readable threats and varied gameplay challenges.
- Build and maintain design documentation, including combat specs, ability sheets, flow diagrams, stat tables, and tuning notes.
- Support gameplay iteration across development and live updates, helping improve combat balance, ability performance, and player experience over time.
- Help identify, triage, and resolve gameplay bugs, balance issues, exploits, and other player-impacting combat or ability problems.
- Partner with design, engineering, animation, VFX, audio, QA, and production to ensure gameplay systems are polished, maintainable, and aligned with project goals.
Benefits
- 26 days leave throughout the year (accrued with tenure and company downtime during holiday periods)
- Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners;
- Convenient working conditions – remote work, the opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours
- А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally.
