JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Senior/Lead Quest Designer, you'll play an instrumental role in bringing the project to life.Ultimately your challenge will be the player's interaction with our story. Leading a team of designers as collaborating with the Narrative team and in collaboration with multidisciplinary developers , you'll be responsible for the holistic design of narrative systems, content pipelines, and their practical implementation.
What you will do
- Designing and implementing AAA quality quest and narrative content in-engine
- Crafting narrative structure, creating and maintaining scripts/scenes for controlling various game elements
- Collaborating with your Lead & Narrative colleagues, the Mission & Narrative Directors, Lead Writers, and various Game, Level and AudioDesigners to develop innovative quests that flow with the overall game
- Working closely with the appropriate teams to validate and secure all elements required for your quests(Exotic Gameplay, AI, Cameras, Audio, Text, Objectives, etc.)
- Constantly evaluating the accessibility, ease of understanding, and level of difficulty for your designs
- Participate in brainstorm, discussions and constantly challenge quality
- Pro-actively seek issues in the game and propose ideas to solve them
- Help building the Design Team, and mentor Junior members
Job Description
As a Senior Quest Designer/Quest Design Lead, you will lead how players interact with our story. You will be responsible for the narrative system, the game content pipeline, and its overall implementation. As a Mission Design Lead, you will also lead a team of designers and collaborate with the narrative team and other development team members
Job Responsibilities
- Design and implement narrative content with AAA quality requirements in the engine
- Produce narrative structure, create and maintain scripts/scenarios to control various game elements
- Work with narrative design Collaborate with the team, Mission and Narrative Director, Lead Writer, and Game, Level, and Audio Designers to develop innovative missions relevant to the entire game
- Work closely with the team to validate and lock in all elements required for the mission (Including gameplay, AI, camera positions, audio, text, objectives, etc.)
- Continuously evaluate the accessibility, understandability, and difficulty of the design.
- Participate in brainstorming, discussions and continuous quality improvement.
- Actively seek out problems in the game and come up with ideas to solve them.
- Help build the design team and mentor junior members
QUALIFICATIONS
You have a passion for video games and interactive storytelling. You excel in a collaborative environment where novel ideas are valued, and you've previously demonstrated your resilience working under pressure and meeting key production deadlines .
Besides the above, we're also looking for someone aligned with our core valuesand the following skills and experience:
- Proven professional experience withQuest/Narrative Design, ideally from AAA game production (best to ha vea portfolioto share)
- Experience with linear & non-linear narrative structures
- Understanding of the technical constraints regarding narrative design implementation, on current-gen consoles & PC
- Experience with Game Engines (i.e. Snowdrop, Unity or Unreal) and/or scripting language systems
Job Requirements
You will need a strong interest in video games and interactive storytelling, and the ability to excel in a collaborative environment that values novel ideas
In addition to the above, we are looking for people who are aligned with our core People with values and the following skills and experience:
- Have extensive professional experience in mission/narrative design, preferably AAA game production experience (relevant works are especially preferred)
- Experience with linear and non-linear narrative structures
- Understand the technical limitations of narrative design implementation on current generation consoles and PC
- Familiar with game engines (such as Snowdrop, Unity or Unreal) and/or scripting language system
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