Combat Designer

Nomadroid
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Posted
July 13, 2025
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As a Combat Game Designer you will be responsible for the core combat and moment-to-moment gameplay of our project. You will design features for our current core mechanics, enhancing, and balancing. You will be working directly with the team to execute the game's combat design & adjust it according to our project GDDs.

You will focus on bringing creative solutions, and enhance the game feel according to the vision in order to forge engaging and robust game features.

Responsibilities:

  • Enhance and design melee combat mechanics of isometric that align with the vision for our games, including: character movement, controls, and camera.
  • Collaborate with animation, programming, and level design to ensure combat mechanics are matching the vision & ensure gameplay feedback for a polished player experience.
  • Analyze, balance and tune combat data, player feedback, and internal playtests to refine and iterate on combat features.
  • Lead playtests and playtest reviews together with the team.
  • Help designing enemies and collaborate with the level design to enhance the gameplay experience.

Requirements:

  • 3 years or more of experience as a combat designer
  • Melee combat design experience 
  • Player feedback loops, hit detection, and animation timing to create responsive and satisfying combat interactions.
  • Experience with live service games, ability to analyze gameplay data and player feedback to inform design decisions and balance combat features.
  • Strong communication, documentation, and presentation skills
  • A high degree of self-motivation and initiative-taking, often working independently.
  • Skills in dealing with scriptable objects and prototyping tools, such as Unity.

Bonus:

  • Technical or animation familiarity.
  • Work with Unity 2022 or higher and able to deal with scripting system
About 
Nomadroid

Nomadroid is a passionate indie game studio located in Saudi Arabia with team members from different places! Nomadroid is one of the first PC and console studios in the kingdom, established in 2022 aiming to break stereotypes and set its own industry standards in MENA games at the highest quality! In 2024, the studio published the first commercial title KoroNeko on Steam.

We are a team of 8 eager members who are trying to follow their love of games by creating games that they can be proud of making, breaking the stereotypes! Join us, be one of the Droids as we continue to grow and help us build our new games!

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KoroNeko is a relaxing, wholesome, puzzle game with *•.¸♡ 𝕂𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕚𝕚 ♡¸.•* aesthetic. You play as Koro the kitty cat, who is trapped in a jar by Strawberry the witch so bring your cup of tea because KoroNeko has NO timer, NO step counter and ZERO pressure!

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