Senior Combat Designer

Bloober Team is a game development studio specializing in horror-infused games. The studio has a solid financial foundation, offers remote-friendly options, and fosters an inclusive and collaborative culture.

• Minimum 4+ years of game development experience, including at least 2 years as Combat Designer on shipped PVE titles
• Experience collaborating with animation, character, vfx, and sfx teams to refine combat feel, timing, and gameplay mechanics
• Proven experience designing diverse combat encounters, including single enemies, multi-enemy compositions, wave-based scenarios; boss battle experience is a plus
• Experience tuning animation graphs and timing for attacks, blocks, branching actions, and reactions
• Ability to make systemic design decisions, document principles and constraints clearly, and communicate across teams
• Excellent knowledge of AI development including enemy archetypes, behaviour trees, and animation frame tuning; boss battle design experience highly valued
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in studio and field audio recording
• Logical thinking, problem breakdown skills, and attention to detail

Nice to have:

• Experience with third-person melee and ranged combat development
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Passion for computer and console horror games

• Design, implement, tune and maintain combat systems, character moves, abilities, items, weapons, and character development/progression
• Own core combat mechanics and specify associated animations
• Develop combat features and improvements from iteration through delivery
• Plan AI needs, behaviour scripting, and tune combat encounters
• Maintain documentation for combat mechanics, balance, and systems
• Validate combat design scoping estimates
• Utilize team, player, and focus feedback to improve combat experience
• Collaborate with animation and audio teams on combat feel and pacing using third-person animations