[Hiring] AR Game Designer @FS Studio

Role Description

We are looking for an AR Game Designer to own the gameplay design and help turn the creative concept into simple, compelling, highly repeatable interactions.

• Define the core gameplay loop for short-form AR monster encounters.
• Design intuitive mechanics that work naturally with a smartphone camera and physical tombstone.
• Develop the interaction between the player, monster, environment, and virtual weapon.
• Design a supernatural weapon mechanic capable of firing plasma or fantastical energy, weakening/capturing monsters, and dragging them back into their graves.
• Determine how each monster (3) behaves during encounters and where character-specific mechanics add meaningful value.
• Design encounters that are immediately understandable and satisfying within approximately 15–30 seconds while supporting longer play sessions.
• Establish progression, scoring, replayability, difficulty, rewards, and player feedback systems.
• Explore how leaderboard and competitive mechanics can extend engagement.
• Help determine whether multiplayer/social gameplay belongs in the initial product or future roadmap.
• Design onboarding that requires minimal instruction and gets users into the experience quickly.
• Work closely with AR engineers to design around real-world tracking, mobile hardware, performance, safety, and environmental constraints.
• Collaborate with animation, VFX, audio, character art, and engineering so gameplay mechanics feel integrated rather than layered onto the experience.
• Prototype, playtest, evaluate, and rapidly iterate mechanics based on client and user feedback.
• Help establish systems that can expand beyond Halloween into additional characters, seasonal variants, collectibles, and future experiences.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a Game Designer, AR Game Designer, Systems Designer, or Gameplay Designer.
• Experience designing mobile, AR, VR/XR, location-based, or other interactive real-time experiences.
• Strong understanding of short-form gameplay loops and immediate player feedback.
• Ability to translate a broad creative idea into clearly defined mechanics, rules, states, and interactions.
• Strong understanding of player motivation, progression, reward, difficulty, and replayability.
• Experience designing gameplay around physical movement, camera-based interaction, or spatial environments.
• Ability to communicate mechanics clearly through design documentation, diagrams, prototypes, and direct collaboration with developers.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving prototype environment where gameplay is continuously tested and refined.
• A portfolio of work is mandatory.

Requirements

• Hands-on Unity experience.
• Experience with AR Foundation, ARKit, ARCore, 8th Wall, or comparable AR platforms.
• Experience designing combat, capture, projectile, aiming, or physics-based mechanics.
• Experience with physical products, toys-to-life, location-based entertainment, or connected collectibles.
• Familiarity with multiplayer and leaderboard systems.
• Experience designing family-friendly horror entertainment.

Benefits

• The gameplay should be family friendly and simple enough to understand immediately but satisfying enough that players want to do it again.
• This is not intended to become a complicated combat game. The “magic” comes from seeing a physical object come alive, confronting the creature in your own environment, and having an interaction that feels responsive, theatrical, and fun.
• The physical tombstone, AR character, weapon, VFX, animation, spatial audio, and gameplay should feel like one experience and not separate features.