Narrative Writer

2 Days ago • All levels • Game Story Writing/Narrative Design • $43,670 PA - $55,370 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Narrative Writer at Cloudhead Games, you'll craft compelling lore, character backstories, and dialogue for VR games. Collaborate with design, art, and voice teams to integrate narrative seamlessly into gameplay. Responsibilities include creating quests, item descriptions, cinematic scripts, in-world texts, and supporting marketing and localization efforts. You'll work on various aspects of the player experience, from writing tutorials to creating incidental text for in-game elements. The role requires proven experience in game writing, scriptwriting, and cross-functional collaboration.
Must have:
  • Proven game writing experience
  • Experience with game narrative structure
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Screenplay format scriptwriting
  • Research and writing skills
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with Unity
  • Experience with animation and voice teams
Perks:
  • Work from home
  • Flexible schedule
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Unlimited health days
  • 2-week winter shutdown
  • 12-week parental leave top-up
  • Professional development days and funds
  • Career growth opportunities
  • Annual gaming reimbursement

Job Details

Cloudhead Games is the veteran VR studio behind the multi-award winning titles, Pistol Whip, an action-rhythm shooter (GOTY, DICE Awards) and the fantasy adventure series, The Gallery (GOTY, VR Awards.) Cloudhead has partnered multiple times with industry legend Valve to create tech demos, with the most notable being Aperture Hand Lab, a humorous Valve Index controller demo set in the Portal Universe. Always innovating, Cloudhead is also known for its early solutions in VR locomotion/comfort with snap turns and teleportation, as well as VR motion capture and hand interactions.


Cloudhead Games is a fully remote company working Pacific Time Zone hours.


As a Narrative Writer at Cloudhead Games, you will be the storyteller behind our world, crafting compelling lore, character backstories, and engaging dialogue that breathe life into our game. You’ll collaborate closely with design, art, and voice teams to ensure the narrative seamlessly supports and enhances gameplay. From writing quests and item descriptions to developing cinematic scripts and in-world texts, you’ll help shape every written aspect of the player’s experience. You’ll also support marketing, localization, and provide ongoing narrative iteration throughout development.


What you would do:

  • Crafting the game’s lore.
  • Creating character biographies. 
  • Establishing narrative arcs.
  • Crafting believable and engaging dialogue for characters.
  • Helping design quests or missions based on the narrative.
  • Assists art in establishing tone & atmosphere, through the game’s writing.
  • Naming of characters, locations, gear, etc.
  • Writing descriptions for collectibles and other in-game items for players to read.
  • Helping craft text that guides players through tutorials.
  • Collaborating with designers to ensure narrative elements integrate well with gameplay.
  • Writing scripts for cutscenes or cinematic sequences.
  • Creating incidental text for in-world elements like signs, notes, etc.
  • Doing research for topics related to the game’s story or setting.
  • Preparing scripts, and assisting with direction for voice performances.
  • Continuously improving the written works based on feedback throughout the development process.
  • Helping marketing with promotional materials.
  • Assisting with localization efforts.


What you will bring:

  • Proven experience writing for games, film, television, or other narrative-driven media
  • Hands-on experience contributing to the narrative structure of a game, including quests/missions, branching dialogue, and interactive storytelling
  • Experience working cross-functionally with game designers, artists, and audio teams to integrate narrative seamlessly into gameplay
  • Familiarity with writing scripts in screenplay format, and ideally working alongside animation and voice teams


Nice to have:

  • Familiarity with tools like Unity for implementing narrative content is a plus


Compensation

Cloudhead Games is committed to pay that feels fair, and that fits in with our overall compensation philosophy focused on work life balance. We welcome candidates to have conversations with our recruitment team regarding their salary expectations and how they align with our established ranges. As we better understand your skillset, it may be determined that your experience aligns more with a higher or lower level of seniority. We will always try to be proactive in communication with applicants about where they might fall in a seniority band. 


The salary range for this position is CAD $55k-$70k. 


What’s in it for you?

  • Work 7-hour days from home and have flexibility in your schedule
  • Competitive salary and generous benefits – medical, dental, vision, wellness and profit sharing 
  • Paid time-off, unlimited health days and 2-week winter shut down
  • 12-week Maternity/Parental leave top up
  • Professional development days and funds
  • Career growth opportunities 
  • Annual gaming reimbursement


At Cloudhead Games, we are truly a community that puts people first, and we encourage humans of different backgrounds and perspectives to join our team. Building an inclusive virtual workplace where we are able to create, contribute and learn together is a studio-wide commitment. Cloudhead provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.


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About The Company

Cloudhead Games is the veteran VR studio behind Pistol Whip and the fantasy adventure series The Gallery, winner of over 30 awards and nominations including VR Game of the Year. 


As pioneers in virtual reality, Cloudhead has partnered with industry leaders to produce built-for-VR experiences and to demonstrate the latest bleeding-edge hardware. Our proprietary, cross-platform tool set; and advances in VR research continue to push the boundaries of virtual reality development. Before Pistol Whip, we partnered with industry-legend Valve to create Aperture Hand Lab, a humorous tech demo set in the Portal Universe, for the next-gen Valve Index. 


With a cumulation of knowledge and learnings spanning nearly a decade of consumer VR, Cloudhead released VR smash hit Pistol Whip in 2019 and has since continued to support the game with live-service features and new content, continually re-imagining the experience by pushing the boundaries of its genre-defining action-rhythm FPS.


Always innovating, Cloudhead Games is also known for its early solutions in VR locomotion/comfort with Snap Turns and Teleportation, as well as VR motion capture and hand interactions.

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