Game Designer

🚀 Position: Game Designer – Neoronin Interactive

📍 Location: Remote Europe – Preferably in Portugal

⏰ Contract Type: Full-Time

💰 Salary: Based on experience

NeoRonin Interactive is a young game development company focused on crafting hardcore games — experiences that respect the player’s intelligence and time investment.

We aim to deliver a deep, complex, and challenging game that demands dedication and rewards mastery. Our mission is guided by a clear set of principles: prioritizing core gameplay, embracing complexity, and targeting a committed audience that values skill-based progression and meaningful challenge.

We are currently developing a strategy game set in a stylized vision of future warfare — blending realistic combat simulation with bold design choices. We’re looking for a Game Designer to help shape our core gameplay mechanics and ensure that every system contributes meaningfully to a rich, rewarding player experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level ideas and creative direction into actionable game elements.
• Design, prototype, and iterate on core gameplay features that support the game’s vision and UX goals.
• Collaborate with programmers, artists, and producers to ensure consistent and feasible implementation across disciplines.
• Communicate design intentions clearly through concise documentation and discussions.
• Use playtest results and feedback to refine mechanics, pacing, and challenge/reward balance.
• Maintain focus on our core design pillars such as challenge, depth, and player agency.

We’re a fast-moving startup — priorities can shift, so this role includes, but isn't limited to the responsibilities above. Adaptability and flexibility are key!

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Game Designer on shipped titles or in a professional game development setting.
• Strong grasp of systems design, gameplay loops, and balance for skill-based games.
• Ability to prototype, iterate, and clearly communicate complex game mechanics.
• Passion for playing and developing hardcore games.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Bonus: Shipped complex strategy or simulation-heavy games.

Soft Skills Requirements

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working with interdisciplinary teams.
• Self-driven and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership over your work.
• Strong critical thinking and willingness to receive and give constructive feedback.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced, remote-first development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What We Offer

• Above-average salary for the Portuguese market.
• Flexible remote work options.
• A dynamic and challenging environment, with innovative and ambitious projects.
• Significant growth opportunities, including the potential to take on leadership roles in the future.

Application Process

The selection process consists of two interview stages:

1. Personal Interview – To evaluate your motivation, profile, and soft skills, and to introduce you to our project.

2. Design Interview – To discuss your game design experience and approach to designing hardcore games..

If you’re passionate about designing gameplay that rewards skill and demands thought, send your CV and portfolio to [email protected] with the subject: “Game Designer Application”.

📌 Note: Applications sent via LinkedIn may not be considered.

Join us on this long-term journey and help us create unique and inspiring universes! 🚀