Game Designer
FunPlus
Combat Game Designer
FunPlus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lisbon • 🇵🇹 Portugal
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Implement, tune, and balance combat systems, weapons, abilities & enemy behaviors.
- Own the feel of combat: responsiveness, hit timing, recovery, rhythm, etc.
- Calibrate interactions between player mechanics, AI logic, and camera to achieve a clean, deterministic combat model.
- Maintain and evolve combat parameters: damage curves, stamina systems, tracking logic, invulnerability frames, and cooldowns.
- Build, document, and maintain data-driven balance frameworks for PvE and PvP encounters.
- Partner with Animation, Engineering, and AI teams to refine movement fidelity, impact feedback, and rhythm.
- Analyze playtest data and player telemetry to validate tuning, surface edge cases, and evolve the meta.
- Ensure every weapon, archetype, and enemy type has a distinct combat identity and tactical role.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in combat or systems design for 3rd-person or action titles (PvE and/or PvP).
- Deep understanding of melee and ranged combat design fundamentals — spacing, timing, recovery, and player feedback.
- Proven ability to tune deterministic combat systems for balance and consistency across latency and skill tiers.
- Strong grasp of camera, lock-on, targeting, and animation-driven gameplay.
- Experience with combat data management: tuning tables, curves, and debug visualization.
- Fluent in Unreal Engine (Blueprints, DataTables, tuning workflows).
- Analytical mindset — able to diagnose subtle feel issues through metrics and iteration.
- Comfortable working within clear design direction and taking ownership of executional detail.
- Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine.
- Shipped at least one game using Unreal Engine.
Benefits
- Join a small, senior team crafting genre-defining experiences.
- Opportunity to build combat that’s elegant and replayable.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
combat systems designtuningdata-driven balance frameworksmelee combat designranged combat designdeterministic combat systemscamera gameplaycombat data managementgameplay systems designgame development
Soft skills
analytical mindsetownershipcollaborationattention to detailproblem-solving
