Quest Designer: Narrative Puzzles & Map-Driven Adventures

Red Games Co.; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

RED Games Co. in the United States is seeking an experienced Quest Game Designer for a four-month contract to translate story objectives and gameplay goals into engaging quests, puzzles, encounters, and map-based player experiences.

We need a focused, hands-on designer who can take a high-level direction and turn it into a clear, playable quest flow. The ideal candidate has experience designing quests, levels, or puzzles for cozy, casual, family-friendly, or similarly accessible games and can

Qualifications

• Professional experience in game design with a focus on quest, level, puzzle, or narrative gameplay.
• Ability to translate story objectives into playable quest sequences with locations and encounters.
• Experience designing for cozy, casual, family-friendly, or accessible games.

Responsibilities

• Design and document story-driven quests from concept through implementation.
• Translate narrative goals into player objectives, progression paths, encounters and rewards.
• Map quests into the game world with locations, routes, and level beats.
• Determine how players move from one story point to the next and what they experience.
• Create quest flows, maps, diagrams and implementation-ready specifications.
• Collaborate with art, animation, narrative, engineering and production.
• Communicate animation, environmental, and technical needs for each quest.
• Identify risks, dependencies, or scope concerns early and propose solutions.
• Manage work independently and deliver on a four-month schedule.

Skills

Quest design

Level design

Puzzle design

Narrative gameplay

Job description

RED Games Co. in the United States is seeking an experienced Quest Game Designer for a four-month contract to translate story objectives and gameplay goals into engaging quests, puzzles, encounters, and map-based player experiences.

We need a focused, hands-on designer who can take a high-level direction and turn it into a clear, playable quest flow. The ideal candidate has experience designing quests, levels, or puzzles for cozy, casual, family-friendly, or similarly accessible games and can