[Hiring] Game & Level Designer @Cheat Code

Role Description

An unannounced co-op horror title — think friendslop, but played completely straight. Small-studio Unreal Engine 5 production, small lobbies, big physical comedy. Full design details shared under NDA.

• Own game design end to end from the GDD
• Prototype and tune mechanics in Blueprint — timers, triggers, interactables
• Translate designs into playable Unreal blockouts — greybox first; art comes later
• Run playtests, find where rules and layouts break, revise both
• Tune spatial metrics against the movement set — jump-to-gap ratios, fall penalties, convergence points, sightlines
• Keep the GDD, top-down layouts, and metrics sheets current as designs change

Qualifications

• 3–5 years across game and/or level design, with at least one shipped multiplayer title
• Mechanics you personally owned on something shipped — a mode, a round type, a system — that you can walk us through, including what you cut
• A fluent Unreal blockout workflow and working Blueprint proficiency — you build and debug your own logic without a programmer on call
• Instincts for simultaneous players: spawn logic, sightlines, chokepoints, what happens when four bodies hit one doorway

Requirements

• Horror, friendslop, or physics-comedy sensibilities
• Small-team experience — you've worn adjacent hats without complaint
• Awareness of multiplayer networking constraints

Benefits

• Contract-to-hire
• Fully remote
• Shortlisted candidates get a paid design test: one real minigame spec, one week, blockout plus written rationale — including at least one rule you'd change and why

To apply

Send your application to [email protected] , include:

• A portfolio with greybox footage and top-down layouts — iteration notes, metrics sheets, and mechanics breakdowns beat beauty renders. We will not judge you on art.
• A short note: pick one multiplayer level or mechanic you shipped, tell us one thing that was wrong with it at first playtest, and how you fixed it.
• No cover letter.