Narrative Designer

Job Description

Great Games Start with Great People! This is a significant time in our company's history – and one of the most exciting times to join us! We continue to build a culture of collaboration and seek an imaginative, resourceful, and versatile Narrative Designer to join our team in Carlsbad, California. If you share a passion for developing groundbreaking worlds and player experiences, then this may be the position you've been waiting for!

Your Mission:
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to establish and build single player narrative content.
• Use your narrative design skills to flesh out memorable characters, write engaging dialogue, and support in-game text with agile prose.
• Implement narrative-related scripting to bring features and content to life in engine.
• Assist with Voice Over recording, tracking and inclusion into the game.
• Present and pitch ideas to internal and external teams.
• Playtest in progress work and provide feedback to the team.

Player Profile:
• Passion for shooters on Console and/or PC.
• Proven experience developing a game's story, prose, maintaining its lore and writing compelling character diction.
• Experience using scripting languages to implement game content.
• 3+ years' professional experience in the games industry.
• Must work well in a team environment: Strong communication skills, taking and understanding direction well, meeting deadlines, and mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Strong game design skills: must be able to thoughtfully discuss the strengths and weaknesses of recent games' narrative and its application to successful game design.

Extra Points:
• Familiarity with Performance Capture and/or Motion Capture.
• Experience in writing dialogue tree structures and with player-choice centric games.
• Strong technical skills and experience with common scripting languages (C#, Lua, Python, Unreal Script).
• Background or education in game design, creative writing or computer science.
• MOD community experience.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpjny9-3-138-141-202-42 in your application.