Lead Melee Combat Designer — Remote

Flix Interactive Ltd; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health and dental care

20 days A/L plus additional leave over

Fully remote working (Europe)

Gamepass or PS Plus Subscription

Flexible core hours

Job summary

Flix Interactive Ltd in the West Midlands is seeking a Lead Melee Combat Designer to own and develop a fluid, impactful melee system for a major title. You’ll oversee concepts through prototype, production and final polish, shaping player movesets, enemy behavior and combat rhythm in Unreal Engine.

You’ll lead by example in the prototype phase and may grow a design team, collaborating with animators, programmers and game directors to balance solo and co‑op encounters and deliver responsive,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience designing melee combat
• Ownership of combat systems on at least one shipped title
• Expert practical knowledge of Unreal Engine with Blueprint skills
• Strong understanding of animation systems in Unreal (state machines, blend spaces, montages)
• Experience designing and balancing multiplayer combat (co-op)
• Leadership experience and ability to mentor a design team

Responsibilities

• Own combat design from concepts to final implementation in Unreal Engine
• Build, test, and refine combat with programmers and animators
• Design movesets, abilities, enemy behaviors, bosses and encounters
• Tune attacks, combos, timing, spacing and flow for responsive combat
• Shape animation timing and gameplay integration with the animation team
• Balance combat for solo and co-op play across player counts
• Drive focused prototypes, playtesting and iteration
• Communicate designs clearly and document work
• Lead and potentially recruit/mentor a design team

Skills

Melee combat design

Unreal Engine

Blueprints

Animation systems

Co-op balance

Leadership

Prototyping

Gameplay balancing

C++ in Unreal

Team mentorship

Tools

Unreal Engine

Animation blueprints

Job description

Flix Interactive Ltd in the West Midlands is seeking a Lead Melee Combat Designer to own and develop a fluid, impactful melee system for a major title. You’ll oversee concepts through prototype, production and final polish, shaping player movesets, enemy behavior and combat rhythm in Unreal Engine.

You’ll lead by example in the prototype phase and may grow a design team, collaborating with animators, programmers and game directors to balance solo and co‑op encounters and deliver responsive,