Who We Are

At Fortis Games we aspire to make great games that bring people together while redefining how game companies work. We believe in building a sense of belonging through our games, their communities, and how we operate and treat each other. Through our game communities, we will create powerful connections and lasting memories. We will foster a culture of diversity, equity and belonging where together our diverse skills, experiences and background impact the games we make.

We are an early but mighty organization with a leadership team of game industry veterans. There are many opportunities for you to have a big impact on the products we’ll be making as well as the overall direction of the company. If you’re passionate about tackling difficult problems with direct and thoughtful communication and team first mentality, we may be the right place for you.

About The Role

Create a set of well balanced, exciting characters that form the foundation of a cohesive game. Release engaging content inside architected systems at a steady rate, for a wide variety of players. Become a strong, foundational designer who governs from first principles.

What You’ll Achieve

• Create internal content that feels well balanced, cohesive and supports the broader gameplay
• Develop a strong methodology for creating balanced combat content using hypotheses and testing
• Create design documents to articulate the most important pillars and aspects of the gameplay experience
• Consider and evaluate data from gameplay in meaningful ways in order to improve your balancing
• Develop a strong understanding of the interrelationships between different buckets of content and articulate clearly to other members of the design team
• Maintain a rigid schedule for content generation
• Analyze and adjust content quality and depth to avoid depreciating returns in design
• Understand and incrementally improve internal content generation systems for all types of model data
• Provide input on new content systems, broader design and live ops roadmap with content consumption in mind.
• Create design overviews to articulate improvements in design thought, through incremental improvements of these documents via feedback
• Help the design team in sounding out the fundamentals of new systems & new games
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Working knowledge of Unity
• Experience in balancing numerically using spreadsheets
• Keen interest in games as a service and their workings
• Understanding of the systems that drive progression in MMOs/RPGs
  
  

Why join us

There are many reasons to join us, but here are a few:

• We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community
• Culture of diversity and inclusion and support to all team members
• Work with some of the industry's coolest people who have designed and launched the best games in the world
  
  

Fortis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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