Design

Game Designer

We’re looking for a strong game designer to help deepen and scale RoboOps — a 2–4 player co-op puzzle-action game built around improvisation.

Unreal Engine 5Co-op MultiplayerRemote · B2BMiddle+ / Senior

The role

RoboOps is a co-op, third-person puzzle-action game for 2–4 players on PC. We build the game around co-op improvisation — players talk, split roles in the moment, use the environment, take risks for loot, and find their way out of situations the script never planned for.

We’re a small team of around ten, self-funded, working without long approval chains — high influence on the product and real ownership of the outcome. The team includes people who came from Marvel Rivals, Epic Games and Escape from Tarkov. Our working timezone is UTC+3 (±2 hours). We’re at the vertical-slice stage: a working foundation, mechanics and prototypes that now need to come together into one coherent system.

We want a designer who can take the existing foundation — current mechanics, mission concepts, progression and economy — find the weak spots, validate solutions quickly in prototypes, and drive them to production-ready alongside engineering, level design, UI/UX and QA. You’ll need to see the game on three levels at once: the player’s concrete action; the mission and its drama; and the long-term meta — progression, risk and reward. If you don’t match every point but feel this is your role, get in touch.

What you’ll do

Design core gameplay systems end to end — from rules, states and constraints to UX, content requirements and balance parameters.

Close blank spots in the GDD with full, production-ready design specs.

Polish and stress-test systems in real sessions: solo, duo and full squad, across winning and failing scenarios.

Balance the core loop, mission rewards, risk/reward, economy, progression, co-op roles and anti-frustration mechanics.

Help build the design pipeline: spec templates, feature-readiness criteria, playtest rules, decision logs and design versioning.

Form hypotheses, set playtest tasks, gather findings and turn observations into concrete changes.

What we’re looking for

✓Commercial game-design experience at a Middle / Senior level.

✓A track record of building mechanics and whole systems from first version to production-ready.

✓Experience on co-op, session-based or multiplayer PvE games.

✓A grip on systemic design: states, resources, constraints, risk/reward, progression loops and content scalability.

✓The ability to design not just a mechanic, but how it behaves inside a mission, a level, the economy and the overall game loop.

✓Comfort working closely with level designers, programmers, UI/UX, artists and QA.

✓A willingness to criticize existing solutions hard — and always bring alternatives.

What matters most

Immersive-sim thinking — an understanding of how to build a space of possibilities.

Telling genuine variety apart from an imposed choice.

A feel for co-op dynamics: when players need to be together, when to split them, where interdependence should emerge — and where it turns into annoying, forced co-op.

A clear sense of the difference between difficulty, tension, unpredictability and unfairness.

The habit of testing solutions hands-on rather than defending them in theory.

Bonus points

Extraction-lite / roguelite / run-based structureMeta-progression, economy & retention loopsUnreal — Blueprint, DataTables, DataAssets, Gameplay TagsPuzzle mechanics woven into level designStructured playtests → prioritized backlogShipped PC / console co-op, systemic or PvE games

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