Freelance Game Designer (m/f/d)
Location: hybrid – Munich office or remote
We’re a Munich-based game dev studio building a turn-based strategy game in Unreal Engine. We're looking for a freelance game designer who’s fluent in the strategy genre and capable of designing, balancing, and implementing systems directly in-engine.
Your Responsibilities
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​As our game designer you will work on our flag ship turn-based strategy game. You will work closely together with the game director and the rest of the team on creating an outstanding gameplay experience for our players.
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Design and iterate on core gameplay systems (combat mechanics, turn structure, progression loops)
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Balance a set of 20+ player abilities, ensuring strategic variety and fairness
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Design and implement 60+ levels (from onboarding to late-game tactical challenges) in Unreal Engine
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Own and maintain clear design documentation
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Collaborate with dev, art, and UX teams to ensure clarity, usability, and consistency in design
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Ensure gameplay communicates intent through clean, readable UX flows
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Your Profile​
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Strong Unreal Engine experience, especially working directly in-editor
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At least one shipped or released strategy/tactics game
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Demonstrable skills in systems design, balancing, and level design
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Ability to prototype, test, and iterate autonomously
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Clear understanding of what makes strategy games deep, engaging, and replayable
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Big Pluses
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Experience with asymmetrical factions or units
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Familiarity with AI design for turn-based systems
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Experience building intuitive strategy game UI/UX
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Comfortable with quick mockups or spreadsheet-based balancing tools
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We want to hear from you
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​.. if you are a proactive and communicative game designer who can implement and balance core systems for our game and who shares our goal to create the best game possible. Please include your portfolio, any relevant Unreal projects, and a short note on how you approach level design and ability balancing in strategy games in your application.
To initiate your application process, kindly submit your application directly via email to hiring@therabytes.de.
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If you are an artist, please enhance your application by including samples of your work or providing reference links, such as ArtStation or Behance.
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For technical roles, we value the opportunity to explore your capabilities through access to git repositories.
Share snippets of code you've personally crafted and are particularly proud of.
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Our hiring process is designed to be mutually beneficial, streamlining the experience for both you and us. Rest assured, every application will be acknowledged. During peak periods, our response time may be slightly extended, but we strive to make the process as efficient and enjoyable as possible.