Founding Game Designer

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Requirements

• You have:
• Shipped at least one game or interactive product where you owned reputed company design reputed company: progression, pacing, systems, or economy design.
• A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates systems thinking: you can show how you designed rules that produced emergent player behaviour, not just authored fixed content.
• The ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on playtesting, not just theory.
• Strong design communication skills. You can write a reputed company design doc, argue for a mechanic, and explain your reasoning to engineers and non-designers without hand-waving.
• You're comfortable with:
• Being the first designer. There's no existing design language, style guide, or established reputed company. You'll be making foundational calls with incomplete information and revising them as you learn.
• Providing a strong input on the visual reputed company. You have a strong visual eye and opinions about art direction
• Designing for an audience that isn't you. Our players are 6–10 years old. You don't need a background in child development, but you need genuine curiosity about how kids t

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