Game Designer (balancing a mobile F2P game) (Fully Remote) (f/m/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote-UK

About the company
Legendary Play  is a self-publishing development studio creating mobile games for ​Esports fans. Our vision is “Live your Esports Passion!” – for our players and ourselves. Our mission is to offer fun and authentic mobile games that will be enjoyed by millions of esports enthusiasts around the globe.
Your role

We are looking for an experienced Game Designer to take good care of the balancing for our newest game’s systems and economy and work together with our core team based in Berlin. We accept remote only candidates but also support moving to Berlin.


Your responsibilities
  • Designing and optimizing game systems and progression mechanics, aligning them with the product vision and the company mission.
  • Set-up and maintain balancing sheets for gameplay elements, progression mechanics, combat, and other systems, ensuring they work harmoniously and turn the game’s vision to reality.
  • Working closely with the product manager, other game designers, and the whole team to design and iterate on the monetization and game economy.
Your requirements
  • You created a mobile free2play game economy with soft & hard currencies during development and optimized it in live stage with real users on it.
  • Numbers are your thing. You know your progression and cost curves, damage formulas and how to maintain these in spreadsheets and scripts.
  • You know what makes a game economy hum and how to control supply and foster demand in dynamic systems.
  • Data driven: Knowing how to uncover problems by looking at KPIs, getting insights from the community and applying your design skills to solve these problems.
  • You like sparring ideas with your peers to steadily improve the game, leaving egos at the door.
  • Good verbal and written English and being able to communicate how complex systems work to your peers and project stakeholders.
Bonus Points
  • Experience in designing and maintaining Web3 open game economies.

  • Experience in economy simulations in Python, Spreadsheets or other tools.

  • Experience working with UI artists where you shape the UX of your features by creating wireframes.

  • You are up to date on genre dynamics and latest trends and successes of the mobile gaming industry.

  • Passion for esports or Web3. Passion makes up for a lot, so if you’re really into esports or Web3, write to us even if you do not fulfil all the requirements.

What we offer
  • A competitive salary in a well-funded gaming studio, which you help to shape.
  • Flexible working hours with work from home.
  • The opportunity to work in the most exciting industries in the world – Esports, Web3 and Gaming!
  • The ability to own your work, but to collaborate with a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team.
  • If you want, we support you to move to Europe's creative startup capital, Berlin!
  • Free coffee, drinks, and fruits onsite.
  • Equity Compensation through an employee share pool.
  • Get access to the best Esports and investor network in Europe.
About us

Live your Esports passion!

Our vision includes our players and ourselves - Legendary Play's vision is to add a new facet to your passion for Esports. Putting you at the center of what we all love, we want our games to be an integral part of what it means to be an Esports fan, and working at Legendary Play a possibility to bring your love for Esports to work every day.

Offer fun and authentic mobile games for all Esports fans

Wherever you are in the world, whatever your age or gender, whatever you play, regardless of how many years... Legendary Play' mission is to offer a game for you, that satisfies your craving for Esports. As a self-publishing developer, we run our games ourselves, aiming to offer the most polished mobile experiences to complement your primary passions - Esports and playing games.

We look forward to hearing from you!
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