Obsidian Entertainment is looking for a designer passionate about creating amazing worlds and gameplay experiences to join them in developing their next great multi-platform RPG. The role involves designing and implementing quest and area content, collaborating with the team to create engaging stories and adventures that adapt to player choices.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement quest and area content in Unreal Engine and proprietary tools
- Script quests with branching dialogues and player choices, setting up encounters, filling the world with details and lore, inventing new places with history, culture, and problems, populating our world and bringing it to life
- Understand and internalize the game's creative vision to make awesome creative decisions
- Work with other designers and the game’s directors to ensure content is part of a cohesive open-world experience
Skills
- Extensive experience as a game master and player for tabletop RPGs
- Experience creating quests/missions on paper or digitally
- A solid design sense, good communication and organization skills, and the ability to work with team members in a collaborative, goal-oriented way
- Ability to receive and apply feedback iteratively on content
- Familiarity with Obsidian games
- Video game development experience
- Experience working with Unreal Engine
- Experience in the writing and creating of tabletop games or supplemental materials for existing RPGs (such as modules)
Company Overview
Obsidian Entertainment is an American role-playing video game. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.obsidian.net/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Obsidian Entertainment has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.