Blizzard is Hiring a New Hearthstone Designer
The Hearthstone team is looking to hire a new designer! They aren't looking for an ideas person but someone to take the initial cards and give them final tuning.
It's also been stated that the two design periods for card sets are about 4 months a piece, so it takes 8 months to build a new set of cards!
Quote from Mike DonaisHi guys, I love reading this forum and seeing how much passion and talent there is for Hearthstone. We are hiring a new designer and I wanted to make sure people were aware.I want to give some specifics about this position and what it entails though. Hearthstone card design is broken into 2 major categories. Initial design which comes up with the flavor and story for the cards, as well as a solid pass on what every card does and costs. Initial design will work on a set for approximately 4 months. After that Final design will take the completed set and work on it for another 4 months.
Final design makes sure that the cards and decks are fun, intuitive, clear, and balanced. They also try to predict what the meta will look like after all these new cards are added. Most cards will change in some way during final design. Final designers should be able to adjust overly complex designs into clean but still fun or exciting versions. They also need to be able to hit legend fairly easily and understand how introducing new cards or decks will change legend level play.
The new position is for a final designer, not an initial designer.
If you are fun to work with, super smart, love Hearthstone and really understand the cards and high level play then you should apply!
https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings/ojLp4fwh
Thanks for reading!
New designer should not think - "random it's fun!"
Buy Brode, we won't be missing you. Hopefully the new guy will actually have some idea about ICGs and balance.
That moment when you think this is awesome but then you realise that you're 12 years old and can't get past rank 26 FeelsBadMan :(
but there are 25 ranks... :o
(I'm actually 17 years old and I reached legend a couple of times, but don't tell anyone)
I don't know how you do math.
Rank 1: Count to 1.
Rank 2: Count 1, 2.
Rank 3: Count, 1, 2, 3.
....
Rank 25: Count 1, 2, 3, .... , 25.
= 25 Ranks + Legendary.
They are hiring a guy who will clean up the mess after BB. It is for good I guess.
Seems they've finally reaslised that the current game designer Ben Brode has no clue about balance in his game.
Honestly, I think that Brode didn't actually play the game...
you should apply anyway, you've got nothing to lose)) just find a way to keep their attention with your CV and impress them at the interview
You said that!