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Quest Designer - Diablo IV

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The Diablo IV team is looking for a hardworking Quest Designer with a combined skills that blends compelling gameplay and storytelling to help us build play areas, quests, characters, and dialogue for Diablo IV!

The ideal candidate is able to collaborate within design, audio, localization, art, world-building, and engineering groups to efficiently and creatively implement story-focused content.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Blizzard worlds and gameplay values — specifically, within the gothic dark fantasy of Diablo
• Proven ability to craft quests, stories, characters, and events within game development toolsets
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of quest design, including key gameplay concepts, pacing, story delivery, and character voice
• Proven grasp of the styles of writing and visual storytelling that work best for dark fantasy and gothic horror role-playing themes
• Experience with world building and writing for role playing games
• Ability to communicate effectively in crafting scenes and story that encourages creativity in your fellow team members
• Able to work to maintain a positive demeanor in a creatively driven, highly collaborative, and iterative team environment
• Minimum 1-2 years game design experience
  

Pluses

• Broad knowledge of successful games, books, and movies in dark fantasy and gothic horror genres, and the ability to speak to what made them successful
• Experience with scripting languages such as LUA or Python
• Proven understanding of technical writing and editing
• Experience crafting quests, points of interest, and characters within a shared world
• Experience crafting and running pen and paper RPG campaigns, and/or live-action RPGs
  

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover letter, including:
• What games you are currently playing
• Your experience with PC and console role-playing games and specifically the Diablo series
• Portfolio or examples of prior design work
  

Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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