Remote Senior Combat Designer: Horror Action & Boss Battles

Bloober Team SA; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Remote-friendly options

Financial stability

Passionate team

Job summary

Bloober Team SA is seeking a Senior Combat Designer to shape melee and ranged combat within our horror titles. You will design, implement, and tune combat systems, collaborating with animation, VFX, and audio teams to craft precise feel and pacing.

The role emphasizes ownership of core mechanics, documentation, and iteration from concept to players. We offer a remote-friendly environment with a passionate team and a clear future vision.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of game development experience, with at least 2 years in Combat Design.
• Experience with collaboration with animation/character/vfx/sfx teams to refine the combat feel, timing, readability, and physicality.
• Proven experience designing and iterating on a wide range of combat encounters, including boss-battles is a plus.
• Ability to clearly document combat mechanics, balance, and systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across multidisciplinary teams.
• Great knowledge in AI development, design enemy archetypes, behavior trees and boss battle design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, tune and maintain combat systems, character moves, abilities, items, weapons and overall character development/progression.
• Ownership of the core combat mechanic and specification of associated animation.
• Ownership of the development of combat features and improvement efforts, from iteration through delivery to players.
• Planning for AI needs, behaviour scripting, and tuning to create varied combat encounters.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation for all combat mechanics, balance, and systems.
• Validation of all combat design scoping estimates.
• Utilization of team, player and focus feedback to improve the look and feel of the combat experience.
• Collaboration with animation and audio teams to determine general feel and pace of combat actions utilizing third person animations.

Skills

Combat design

Game development

Animation collaboration

AI design

Boss battles experience

Documentation

Job description

Bloober Team SA is seeking a Senior Combat Designer to shape melee and ranged combat within our horror titles. You will design, implement, and tune combat systems, collaborating with animation, VFX, and audio teams to craft precise feel and pacing.

The role emphasizes ownership of core mechanics, documentation, and iteration from concept to players. We offer a remote-friendly environment with a passionate team and a clear future vision.