Game Designer
Pixion Games is a London-based mobile game studio best known for Fableborne, a competitive, mobile-first action RPG with base-building strategy. The studio partners with Power Protocol to integrate blockchain-powered infrastructure, NFT collections, and an ecosystem token into its games, targeting mobile and competitive gaming players.
About Pixion Games
Pixion Games Limited is a UK-registered (company number 10749772) game studio headquartered in London, built by a team of veterans from major studios such as Konami, Garena, Gala Games, Square Enix, Sony, Wargaming, Pixonic, Ubisoft, and NCSOFT. Its flagship title, Fableborne, is a competitive, mobile-first action RPG with base-building strategy set in the fantasy realm of the Shatterlands, where players collect and upgrade heroes, build and fortify kingdoms, and engage in asynchronous PvP raids and PvE encounters. The company has expanded into blockchain-powered entertainment through a partnership with the Power Protocol ecosystem, including launching NFT collections such as the Ronin-based Fableborne Kingdoms collection and an upcoming ecosystem token. Pixion Games is backed by angel investors and advisors including individuals from Sweet Capital, TakeTwo, Huuuge Games, and BITKRAFT Ventures, and serves players and gaming communities interested in competitive, blockchain-integrated mobile gaming experiences.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, balance, and test core game systems that improve player progression, retention, engagement, and monetisation. You will own the game economy, seasonal live operations, and pricing strategy; analyse KPIs and player feedback; develop and test optimisation hypotheses; and collaborate on roadmap and content needs. You will also design game and meta systems that integrate a token economy with support from the Product Director.
Requirements
- Previous senior game design experience focused on midcore and mobile free-to-play titles, or at least three years as a mid-level game designer.
- Understanding of action and strategy games, player motivation, spending behaviour, and long-term engagement.
- Experience working on at least one scaled free-to-play mobile game in the live operations stage.
- Experience designing, documenting, and shipping game systems focused on progression, economy balancing, monetisation, and live operations.
- Ability to analyse data, document hypotheses, design experiments, and measure results.
- Motivation to work on a free-to-play title with loot box mechanics.
- Availability during EU working hours, including core hours from 9:30am to 4pm UTC/BST.
Responsibilities
- Design in-game systems that shape player progression, retention, monetisation, and player experience.
- Shape player journeys to optimise long-term retention and mastery.
- Use Unity to playtest development features, content, and balancing.
- Test designed systems before release to ensure they deliver the intended experience.
- Own the design, balancing, and monitoring of the game economy, live operations, and monetisation.
- Balance the economy to provide a fair, rewarding player experience and strong free-to-play performance.
- Collaborate on virtual bundles, pricing strategies, and in-app purchases.
- Own seasonal direction, planning, economy, and live operations balancing.
- Propose live operations and monetisation features with quantified ROI.
- Collaborate on the roadmap and content needs.
- Use data to monitor KPIs, economy balance, and live operations performance and recommend optimisation hypotheses.
- Monitor player behaviour and feedback patterns and improve live content.
- Design game and meta systems that integrate a token economy.
Benefits
- Remote work.
- Close one-to-one line management.