Our Values

The Game Band is dedicated to making games that reflect the diverse world we live in, which means fostering an environment and community that reflects our world too. We hold ourselves to a high standard when it comes to ensuring our company is an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming place to work.

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The Role

The Game Band is seeking a Lead Systems Designer to help craft an absurdist horror fantasy baseball experience: Blaseball. You’ll be a core part of building the emergent narrative simulation that drives the game experience, in charge of turning wild narrative ideas into concrete systems.

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As Lead Systems Designer you will:

• Design and balance emergent narrative systems for a live simulation that a mass audience can affect in real time
• Manage the intersection of our simulation's systems, keeping the emergent possibility space within the overall game’s tone and vision
• Collaborate closely with the narrative team to ideate and iterate upon narrative systems
• Clearly document and diagram your systemic designs
• Serve as a conduit between the narrative and engineering teams

What success looks like:

• You feel empowered to make significant changes and additions to Blaseball’s core simulation
• Your systems work in concert across the entire simulation ecosystem and do not feel isolated
• Your systems widen the emergent narrative possibility space while staying thematically clear
• You build upon other designers’ ideas as much as your own
• The rest of the team is easily able to translate your designs into concrete actionable items

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Requirements:

• At least four years of professional games industry experience in Game Design
• Professional design experience as a Systems Designer or equivalent title
• Experience writing design documentation
• Experience prototyping in code, and with web development technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, React) in general
• The ability to clearly articulate your design reasoning in verbal and written form

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Nice to Haves:

• Experience designing for a live game
• Advanced knowledge of Figma and/or Notion
• A background in creative writing or narrative design
• A general understanding of baseball

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How to Apply:

To apply, email us your resume and feel free to include any details about yourself that you'd like to share. We are accepting applications ongoing as of right now but check back frequently for deadlines and updates. As we grow we will be posting new positions, and we will try to respond to as many applicants as we can.