Senior Game Designer

2 months ago

Leamington Spa United Kingdom Third Kind Games Full time

As a Senior Game Designer, you will be highly creative and have a strong passion for playing and creating games. You will take responsibility for specific areas of the game design and work closely with all disciplines to implement features that deliver on the overall game vision.

Third Kind Games is one of the largest independently owned game development studios in the UK, based in Royal Leamington Spa. We also have remote studios in Poland and Spain. Our three studios have been built on the same original spirit and values since our beginning. Founded in 2016 by nine leaders in the industry, with extensive experience in the development of critically acclaimed titles such as Guitar Hero Live and DiRT, we've been growing ever since. Today we work with some of the biggest names in the games industry such as Blizzard, Amazon, Microsoft and Mythical Games.

Alongside several new high-profile, unannounced projects, our team is also working on our own IP, so TKG is an incredibly exciting place to be right now. We are also setting new benchmarks for creativity in the games industry, driving technical expertise in programming alongside creative innovation.

What is it like to be a Third Kinder?

We are a diverse team of people. We are collaborative, open-minded creatives who embrace ideas and knowledge from everyone in our team, with the aim of developing and inspiring ourselves, our projects and our games.

Work life balance and flexibility are very important to us and our team. At TKG we offer a place where our team can be their most creative, imaginative and confident selves. We want all of our team to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. TKG recently received a GOLD Award in Mind Charity's Workplace Wellbeing Index, recognising our dedication to our team's mental health and wellbeing.

Role Overview

You enjoy:

  • Designing game mechanics, core loops and game systems that are fun to play.
  • High standards and writing high-quality documentation to deliver coherent and compelling visions of game features.
  • Making useful contributions to our creative planning sessions, scrums, and retrospectives and helping drive the development of our projects and the team.
  • Understanding our consumer needs and ensuring the designs developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment, managing the mechanics, loops and systems that make our games more fun to play.
  • Working with our team to support the delivery of fresh and innovative ideas for games.
  • Mentoring and assisting your colleagues to support their personal development.

What we are looking for from a Third Kinder

You would:
  • Have a good understanding of the design principles behind games, with comprehensive experience in various areas of game level design.
  • Be able to collaborate and communicate well with team members to realise a shared vision.
  • Talk and write enthusiastically about game ideas, championing their potential.
  • Be naturally inquisitive, you keep up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and cascade according to support the development of your team.
  • Have the motivation and passion to keep up to date with industry developments and bring efficiencies and increased quality, whilst growing your skill set.
  • Show an ability to keep team members motivated and working efficiently toward project goals.

Skills you need
  • 5+ years industry experience in game design positions.
  • Unity, Unreal, or similar game engines.
  • Strong, passionate communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proven ability to write concise, well-written and compelling design documentation.
  • Proven ability to design fun gameplay features that keeps players wanting more.
  • Ambitious and motivated.

Skills it would be great to have

Experience with:
  • All stages of a project, from concept to launch.
  • Modern console development.


If you think this is the role for you please send us your CV and an introductory email, which helps us to get to know you better. We aim to respond to your application within 2 working days.

Usually we will conduct a telephone interview, prior to any face to face or virtual interviews.

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