Senior Game Designer

Brightrock Games
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Posted
February 24, 2025
Full Time
UK & EU
Remote

WHO ARE BRIGHTROCK GAMES?

We are a plucky independent fully-remote video game studio based in Brighton, UK, and makers of widely praised and highly-rated Galacticare and War for the Overworld. The core team has joined together from all over the world because of a shared passion for building brighter universes. Our goal is to continue creating genre-twisting 3D simulation and management games; and if we can do it with a quirkily British sense of humour, then all the better! 

We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to join our core team full-time and help develop the Next Big Thing™ from Brightrock Games!

You will be joining a highly passionate, closely-knit team of developers creating games in some of the most rewarding and deep genres – simulation, RTS and management – and you’ll have the opportunity to work on smaller projects in a wider variety of genres along the way.

 

Responsibilities:

As Senior Game Designer, you will:

  • Work alongside the Creative Director and design team to drive the vision, features and content of one or more of our projects
  • Collaborate with the wider team to iterate on features, oversee implementation and consult on asset creation related to your designs

 

Requirements:

About You:

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to succinctly and concisely communicate both your ideas and the ideas of others to a wide variety of different audiences
  • A laser focus on the player and their experience when designing features, systems and content
  • An understanding of the scope and production impact of features you work on, and the knock-on effects of the decisions you may make
  • A passion for working in a small indie game development team, where collaboration matters more than titles, and everyone contributes to creating something special
  • A strong interest in and understanding of strategy and management games
  • Hands-on experience working in-engine to implement content and balance systems
  • A high attention to detail and an analytical attitude towards playing games
  • Strong work ethic, proactive attitude, good time management and strong organisational skills
  • 5+ years in game design roles
  • At least two shipped PC or console games

 

Desirable:

  • Experience designing, testing and balancing deep & technical gameplay systems (eg: a character needs system in a management game)
  • Experience with level design
  • Experience working on Unity projects
  • Experience working with Confluence & Jira
  • At least one shipped title in the strategy or management space
  • 100m³ of Unobtainium

 

Benefits:

  • Enhanced Holiday. In addition to 25-day holiday allowance, you will also enjoy an additional 20 days off each year, comprising a 2-week summer break and a 2-week winter break, bringing your total holiday entitlement to 45 days annually.
  • Private Health Care. Brightrock pride themselves in looking after their employees and offer private medical, dental and optical insurance.
  • Workplace Pension Scheme. Effectively save and build financial security for your future with the workplace pension scheme provided.

Certain benefits may vary for employees based outside the UK, in accordance with local laws and practices.

 

Equal Opportunities:

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those traditionally underrepresented in our industry.

About 
Brightrock Games

We’re a small, stable indie studio in the heart of Brighton, UK. We’ve been on a bit of a journey.Now we’re in the enviable position of being able to embark on our NEXT BIG THING. We’ve learned lots from making our highly-praised first game, War for the Overworld, and we’re taking those lessons forward into our new project.

You can be a part of this future.

We’re looking for people that live and breathe games like we do, that are willing to challenge tradition, and that have the drive and attention to detail needed to get a great game out the door. We want people that know their stuff, but who are always pushing to learn more – we learn things from each other every day, and each of us is deep diving into our specialties so we can get better. Being a specialist is one thing of course, but in a team this small you’ll also need to balance a fair few hats on that bonce of yours as well.

If you can do all that, well then maybe we ought to be having a chit-chat!

We pride ourselves on the strength of our core team, but we also work with a bunch of awesome freelancers.

Featured Game
s

Galacticare is a hospital management game in a weird and wacky sci-fi universe. In a colourful world rife with death and disease, design and manage perfectly functioning hospitals orbiting volcanic planets, deep-space graveyards, and psychic alien deities! With an offbeat narrative that twists together a ragtag group of eccentrics, the game takes you on a journey beyond managing a hospital. From your assistants - a dejected AI bureaucrat and Medi, a tireless janitorial robot - to the variety of consultants you’ll hire and bring along on your journey, the characters will grow beside you as you progress deeper through the story.

War for the Overworld is an original Dungeon Management Game with a dark sense of humour. Players build their very own dungeon with unique rooms, deadly traps and despicable minions. They face off against goodly heroes and vicious rival Underlords to conquer the realm of Kairos, across a number of game modes including multiplayer and a fully voiced acted campaign.

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