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About the role
- Systems Game Designer at Studio Ellipsis focusing on gameplay systems and systemic design in a hybrid work setup. Involved in developing an action title's systemic backbone located in Lisbon, Portugal.
Responsibilities
- Design, tune, and balance core gameplay systems that drive progression, resource flow, and dynamic world behaviors.
- Translate high-level design goals into clear, scalable systems that connect mechanics, player motivation, and content.
- Model dependencies and feedback loops between AI, combat, economy, and world systems to ensure long-term balance and emergent variety.
- Work closely with engineering and data teams to implement tunable, data-driven frameworks that can scale efficiently.
- Analyze telemetry and playtest data to validate assumptions, identify edge cases, and optimize player experience.
- Establish clear system documentation and parameter hierarchies, ensuring other designers can build within your frameworks.
- Collaborate cross-discipline (Combat, AI, Content, Technical Design) to maintain systemic coherence and design consistency.
- Champion systemic thinking within the team, promoting elegant solutions, simulation-minded design, and measurable outcomes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems or economy design on at least one shipped title.
- Proven ability to design and balance interconnected systems with multiple inputs, dependencies, and player variables.
- Strong understanding of data-driven design workflows parameter tuning within Unreal.
- Analytical mindset: translate qualitative goals into quantitative balance models.
- Clear communication skills, able to convey complex system logic visually & persuasively.
- A genuine fascination for how systems behave, in games, and real-world dynamics.
- Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine.
- Shipped at least one game using Unreal Engine.
- Bonus: Experience with procedural content generation or systemic encounter frameworks.
- Bonus: Familiarity with combat-driven or extraction-style PvEvP ecosystems.
- Bonus: Understanding of AI behavior dependencies, rarity systems, and scaling logic.
- Bonus: Background in mathematics, data analysis, or systems architecture.
- Bonus: Familiarity with the Gameplay Ability System (GAS) and its application to multiplayer.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
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