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Overview

Join our team and help bring to life our cozy detective game Almanac: Detective Agency. We are looking for a Technical Game Designer to own the feel of our investigations: designing and building the mini-games and mechanics players interact with, and making sure every case plays cleanly.

This is a hands-on, in-engine role. You will design in Unity, not just on paper, and you will own playtesting and quality across the game.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and iterate our detective mini-games and tactile puzzles (evidence reconstruction, safe-cracking, hidden-object), building them directly in Unity
• Research reference games and mechanics to inform new puzzles and systems, and turn that research into clear, buildable specs
• Build and dress gameplay in-engine: scene setup, prefabs, and wiring up mechanics and interactions
• Own playtesting and QA: run playtests, analyse results, reproduce and ticket bugs, and verify save/load and case logic
• Work closely with the design, art, and programming team to turn cases into satisfying, bug-free investigations

Who we are looking for:

• Experience designing and shipping game mechanics, ideally on a released or substantially complete title
• Hands-on Unity skills: you can build and prototype your own designs in-engine (C# scripting is a strong plus)
• A rigorous approach to testing and quality
• Strong systems thinking, and the ability to turn research into clear specs the team can build
• Comfortable in a small, remote, fast-moving team

Bonus skills:

• Experience with puzzle, mystery, or investigation games
• QA or playtest-analysis experience
• Level design or environment scripting in Unity

How to apply

To apply, include a link to your portfolio showing mechanics or systems you have designed and built (links to games, prototypes, playable builds, or design docs). Applications without a portfolio cannot be processed.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview and a short, paid design exercise. We're eager to see what you have made.

Pay: $38,500.00-$72,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Application question(s):

• Portfolio link:
• Link to a game or prototype you both designed and built in Unity:
• Describe a mechanic or mini-game you designed end to end. Its goal, how you built it in Unity, and how you iterated it based on testing:
• How do you approach playtesting, and how do you turn results into design changes?
• Your availability and earliest start date:
• Are you currently enrolled as a student? (Yes / No)

Work Location: Remote