Game Designer – Digital Strategy & Multiplayer Games

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design the complete game flow, rules, mechanics, and player experience.
• Convert physical board-game mechanics into an engaging digital game.
• Design multiplayer sessions, player actions, turns, events, rewards, scoring, and progression.
• Design card-based mechanics, market events, trading mechanics, portfolio systems, and the game economy.
• Create and maintain a detailed Game Design Document.
• Define game states, player journeys, interaction flows, edge cases, and system behavior.
• Balance gameplay, probabilities, rewards, risks, difficulty, and match duration.
• Design tutorials, onboarding, practice modes, and player guidance.
• Collaborate with developers, UI/UX designers, 3D artists, animators, QA, and product teams.
• Design for Web, Android, and iOS, including engaging visual feedback, sound cues, and interactions.
• Continuously test, analyze, and improve gameplay using player behavior and feedback.

Mandatory Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience in a gaming company.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience as a Game Designer.
• Strong understanding of game mechanics, systems design, game balancing, player psychology, and game economy.
• Experience designing one or more strategy, board, card, simulation, multiplayer, or similar system-driven games.
• Experience preparing professional Game Design Documents, game-flow documents, wireframes, and developer-ready specifications.
• Strong understanding of multiplayer game flows and player interaction.
• Ability to convert complex rules into simple and enjoyable player experiences.
• Good understanding of mobile-game UX and cross-platform game design.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Candidates must provide a portfolio or game work details showing their individual role and contribution.
• Candidates without professional game-design experience will not be considered.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Figma, multiplayer architecture, analytics, live-game systems, or web-based games is advantageous.
• Experience with financial, trading, simulation, tycoon, economy, or educational games is beneficial but not mandatory.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay is ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 per month.
• Provident Fund is provided.

Workplace

• The position is full-time and based in Kolkata with on-site, in-person work.