Blackbird Interactive

Quest Designer – 12-month Contract

Blackbird Interactive

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$80,000 - CA$90,000 per year

About the role

  • Collaborate with system design, level design, art, engineering and production to support and implement the established creative vision, raising questions or inconsistencies as they arise during development.
  • Work within production schedules and constraints, implementing quest content in a timely and iterative manner while communicating risks or dependencies to appropriate team members.
  • Author and implement quest content end to end, including quest logic, objectives, branching states, conditions, and in-game scripting.
  • Write and integrate narrative content such as dialogue, character background, world lore, and mission context directly into playable content, ensuring it functions correctly in-game.
  • Work closely with level designers to integrate narrative into spaces and encounters, adapting dialogue, objectives, and pacing to support gameplay while maintaining narrative consistency.
  • Build and maintain quest state machines, manage variables and conditions, and ensure quests respond correctly to player choice, order of operations, and systemic interactions.
  • Test, debug, and iterate on quest content regularly, identifying and fixing logic errors, progression blockers, and edge cases through hands-on implementation.
  • Respond constructively to feedback, making revisions to improve clarity, flow, gameplay alignment, and player experience.
  • Maintain an understanding of core gameplay systems and how they interact with quest logic, adjusting narrative implementation as needed to resolve conflicts or support player-driven outcomes.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience contributing to game development, with a strong focus on quest, campaign, or narrative content design within complex game systems.
  • Experience shipping at least one content-heavy title, ideally in the RPG space, with an understanding of the full content lifecycle from implementation through polish.
  • Comfort working independently on assigned content, with the ability to manage tasks, iterate on feedback, and solve implementation problems in a dynamic production environment.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work closely with other designers, artists, engineers, and audio partners to deliver cohesive quest experiences.
  • Familiarity with scripting, logic-driven tools, and state-based systems, and confidence building, debugging, and maintaining quest logic, conditions, and branching outcomes directly in-game
Benefits
  • four-day work week
  • remote within Canada
  • hybrid work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
quest content designnarrative content designin-game scriptingquest logicbranching statesdebugginggameplay systemscontent lifecycleiterationproblem-solving
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationfeedback responsivenessindependent worktask managementadaptabilitycreativityclarityflow improvementplayer experience focus