Technical & Player-First — BattleSage

Designing and integrating quests from ideation through implementation, evaluation and iteration for BattleSage within an indie studio environment.

Start date: June 2026 — fixed-term, ~12 months. On-site in Ghent.

• Conceptualizing new quests with the design and narrative teams.
• Integrating quests using the engine and in-house scripting tools.
• Maintaining a player-experience focus throughout production.
• Overseeing quest evaluation and iteration.
• Converting playtest feedback into concrete improvements.
• Debugging quest logic.
• Evaluating the integration pipeline.
• Participating in design brainstorms and playtests.

• 3+ years of working as a quest/game designer in the game industry.
• Strong communication skills.
• Understanding of onboarding, readability, affordance and encounter pacing.
• UE5 and Blueprints experience.
• Strong technical / logical skills.
• Affinity with open-world game mechanics.
• Proactive mindset.

Pluses:

• Action-adventure / open-world quest design experience.
• Game QA experience.
• 1+ shipped titles.
• C++ programming.
• FlowGraph plugin familiarity.