Studio: Larian Studios
Job Opening: RPG Designer
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Design narrative and gameplay content within an area of the game, take ownership of the area throughout implementation, and responsibility for its final quality.
- Ensure logical and well-paced narrative flow in the combination of situations, dialogs and areas.
- Create solutions for quest design problems and follow their implementation.
- Conduct progress reviews for your area, gathering feedback from the other departments and working with them to reach the optimal finished state.
- Write and update documentation, and communicate changes to the teams.
- Take a holistic approach when implementing changes to your region. Every decision will impact a range of departments, so you’ll need to take their limits and priorities into account.
- Understand player motivations and expectations.
Qualifications & Skills:
- The ability to take the lead in a creative element of the game, communicate with all parties involved, gather feedback, and sink their teeth into it until it’s finished.
- The ability to come up with creative solutions to new problems, or identify issues that don’t require reinventing the wheel.
- A strong understanding of narrative beats and pacing.
- The ability to imagine what it’s like seeing the game for the first time every single day, you understand player expectations.
- The ability to observe players and learn from their actions and filter their feedback.
- A high level of digital literacy and can adapt quickly to new software and tools (G Suite, Confluence, Jira, etc.)
- Attention to detail and undaunted by complexity and change
- A great collaborator has excellent organization and communication skills.
- Comfortable in an agile environment with evolving needs
Nice to haves
- Has handled game engines, and has programming skills or implementation experience.
- Has shipped games with a narrative focus
- Has extensive experience as both a player and maker of RPGs.
- Familiarity with Larian’s games and capable of emulating our distinctive style.
