Founding Game Designer

🕒 March 19

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Embedding VC

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

Artificial Intelligence • Finance

Embedding VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA that backs engineering, product, and research-focused founders, with a particular emphasis on AI-driven startups. The firm maintains a curated portfolio of developer and data infrastructure companies and communicates via developer-forward channels (CLI-style website, newsletters, and LinkedIn). Embedding VC focuses on seed and early-stage investments in technology companies leveraging machine learning and AI.

📋 Description

• You'll be Pebble's first game designer, responsible for defining how an AI-powered world actually feels to play. • Designing the exploration systems, pacing, and progression mechanics that make kids want to come back, not through dark patterns, but through genuine curiosity and a deepening relationship with an AI companion character. • Working at the intersection of game design, child development, and generative AI, building design frameworks from scratch in a Godot 4 environment where the content is procedural and the interactions are voice-driven.

🎯 Requirements

• Shipped at least one game or interactive product where you owned core design decisions: progression, pacing, systems, or economy design. • A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates systems thinking: you can show how you designed rules that produced emergent player behaviour, not just authored fixed content. • The ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on playtesting, not just theory. • Strong design communication skills. You can write a clear design doc, argue for a mechanic, and explain your reasoning to engineers and non-designers without hand-waving. • You're comfortable with being the first designer. There's no existing design language, style guide, or established framework. You'll be making foundational calls with incomplete information and revising them as you learn. • Providing a strong input on the visual side. You have a strong visual eye and opinions about art direction • Designing for an audience that isn't you. Our players are 6–10 years old. You don't need a background in child development, but you need genuine curiosity about how kids think, play, and learn. • Working with generative systems. Much of Pebble's content is procedural and AI-driven, which means you're designing constraints, rules, and possibility spaces rather than hand-crafting every encounter.

🏖️ Benefits

• Strong equity component