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Associate Technical Narrative Designer

Santa Monica Studio

Los Angeles, CA 01-16-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Contract
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description

Associate Technical Narrative Designer (Contract)

Join the award-winning team that created God of War

We're looking for a n Associate Technical Narrative Designer to integrate dialogue, cutscenes , and in-game storytelling moments , into worlds that set the bar for player immersion . As a part of the Narrative team, this technically oriented individual will work side - by - side wit h our Writers, Cinematics team, Level Design ers , Systems Design er s , and Audio Engineers . S upporting innovative and ambitious content through solving scripting, choreography , and implementation challenge s.

As a Technical Narrative Designer , you must possess the ability to effectively collaborate with
other disciplines, to creatively implement narrative parts of the game . You have a CS degree
or advanced scripting background , and experience solving complex technical problems.

Help us create amazing world leading games that transf orm all players into heroes!

Responsibilities
• Interpret, respect, and support the creative direction of the Game Director, Design Director, and Narrative Director.
• Work closely with the designers, writers , and animators to create cinematic sequences and interactive narrative moments.
• Author complex scripted scenarios and implement narrative assets from a range of partners.
• Work with the Writers , Level Designers , and Audio to perfect the presentation and choreography of narrative aspects of gameplay.
• Participate constructively in production and design meetings , and discussions.
• Build content using visual and text-based scripting systems, Maya, and in-house tools.
• The position also involves de bugging technical issues.

Requirements
• Experience with game editors and scripting languages.
• Ability to work with visual scripting and code-based proprietary tools.
• Good u nderstanding of game production, design tools , and systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Have shipped at least 1 commerc ial game product with at least 6 months of development time.

Preferred Experience
• Experience implementing narrative components such as c inematics and game VO.
• Sh ipped a product that used a visual scripting system for implementation.
• Completed a Computer Science or related degree.
• Full development cycle experience for at least 1 published triple-A title.

We value talent, self-motivation, and team spirit. In turn, we provide an environment with a large degree of autonomy and opportunities for growth.

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Santa Monica Studio

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