Combat Director
About Level Up Games
Level Up Games, LLC is the game development studio behind Kyzen. Level Up Games is a well funded, fast-paced indie studio nearly 4 years into development on Kyzen, a kid-focused dynamic open world survival crafting game that combines the best of Minecraft and Palworld with the playful energy of a Shonen anime.
Role Overview
We are hiring an experienced Combat Director on a temporary, full-time basis to lead a focused combat overhaul on Kyzen over an approximately three to four month term (longer if the work can be justified) beginning in October or November 2026.
Put simply, our fights are fine, but they’re not fun enough yet. Encounters lack the readability, simplicity, variety, and the opportunity for mastery that make combat worth engaging with for anyone - especially kids. You will diagnose why, define a coherent attack-type framework for the game, and give every mob in the roster a distinct, readable attack pattern that over-indexes on fun.
This is a senior, hands-on role. At Level Up Games, everyone is a doer. While there is a small team to manage, the core of the role will be actual combat design work. You will set direction, produce combat encounters from start to finish by yourself, and partner closely with our engineering team to establish a combat style that is cohesive, fun, and worthy of mastering.
You will be expected to work with AI in any way that helps advance the project and deligh
