Game Designer

🌻 Game Designer (Mid / Mid-Senior)

📍 Sydney (Remote) | 💼 Full-time | 💰 A$100,000 – A$110,000

We’re looking for a Game Designer to help shape the next generation of casual and social games at Thought Farm — the team behind Sunflower Land, a globally loved farming game built with open source and community at its core.

This is a hands-on creative role where you’ll collaborate directly with our founder and community team to design and evolve systems across multiple projects. If you love resource loops, player progression, and turn-based game systems — this might be for you.

🧑‍🌾 About Thought Farm

• 🚀 Indie-scale, profitable studio
• 🥇 Built Sunflower Land — a casual farming game with 700,000+ players, 120+ open-source contributors, and multiple awards.
• 🌱 Now expanding to new greenfield titles in the casual / idle / turn-based genre.
• 🌍Launched in Sydney, with a Global team of 12

✨ What You’ll Do

• Co-lead game design direction for existing and new titles
• Ideate and document new systems, mechanics, and live event structures
• Design farming loops, idle progression, and turn-based battle mechanics
• Create economic balancing & monetisation models for casual gameplay
• Shape light narrative, themes, and world-building for new projects
• Work with community managers & players to collect feedback and iterate
• Playtest and tune content to optimise retention and engagement
• Collaborate with engineers, artists, and product to deliver your vision

🧠 About You

• 2+ years game design experience (indie or studio)
• Strong design documentation skills (Figma, Notion, or similar)
• Comfortable designing for live games and casual players
• Deep understanding of resource systems, progression, and player motivation
• Creative, collaborative, and ready to take ownership of game direction
• Bonus: experience with turn-based mechanics, live ops, or Web3 game loops

💰 What We Offer

• 💼 Full-time role
• 💰 A$100,000 – A$110,000 base salary
• 🏡 Remote-first culture with regular planning/catchups in Sydney
• ✨ Creative freedom and high trust — your ideas will shape real games
• 🌍 Work with a global, passionate, open-source community

👉 How to Apply

Send us:

• Your resume or LinkedIn profile
• Any portfolio or design examples (docs, mechanics, features you’ve designed)

📩 Apply directly here on LinkedIn.