About the job
Location: Cambridge, UK – This role offers flexible working options, but candidates must reside or be willing to relocate within a reasonable commuting distance of our Cambridge office for onsite attendance as needed.
This position is an 18-month fixed-term contract.
Are you a creatively adept game designer with a profound passion for Old School RuneScape and expertise in developing robust, scalable systems?
In the capacity of a Technical Designer within the Old School RuneScape Design team, you will be instrumental in crafting and executing captivating content, with a strong emphasis on technical excellence. Your role will merge imaginative design principles with scripting proficiency, ensuring that the content is engaging, memorable, and technically proficient within the OSRS engine.
Collaborating within small to medium-sized multi-disciplinary teams, you will contribute to weekly game updates for one of the most community-oriented MMORPGs globally while continually enhancing your understanding of our systems, engine capabilities, and proprietary tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement engaging game content leveraging the technical strengths of Old School RuneScape.
- Utilize our proprietary scripting language, RuneScript, to turn your designs into technically robust and scalable solutions.
- Offer proactive technical insights to the team, ensuring content efficiency, maintainability, and alignment with engine capabilities.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical design documentation to facilitate development and knowledge sharing.
- Create tools and workflows that enhance your efficiency and that of the broader design team.
- Work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver updates for a live game on a weekly basis.
- Gain a deep understanding of the game’s core systems and engine behavior to support high-quality technical implementations.
- Leverage game data and player insights to guide design decisions addressing content gaps and business needs.
- Engage in discussions about engine capabilities and collaborate with engineers to enhance the potential of RuneScript.

