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Senior Narrative Designer

19 Hours ago • 5 Years + • Game Story Writing/Narrative Design

Job Summary

Job Description

nDreams Studio Elevation seeks a Senior Narrative Designer for a 12-month contract to craft engaging storylines and characters for VR games. Responsibilities include collaborating with designers and writers to create scenarios and implement dialogue, ensuring narrative consistency, and maintaining design documentation. The role requires 5+ years' experience in narrative, gameplay, or level design with a focus on narrative implementation and systems. The ideal candidate will be a team player with excellent communication and documentation skills, able to provide constructive feedback and drive the narrative across multiple disciplines. Experience with Unreal Engine is essential.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in narrative design
  • Interactive storytelling expertise
  • Excellent communication & documentation skills
  • Unreal Engine knowledge
  • Collaboration and constructive feedback
Good to have:
  • VR development experience
  • Script writing experience
  • VR game knowledge
Perks:
  • Flexible hours
  • Duvet days
  • Birthday off
  • Personal development time
  • Regular socials
  • Excellent holiday offering
  • Pension scheme
  • Health insurance
  • Life cover

Job Details

nDreams Studio Elevation are re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We are looking for a Senior Narrative Designer to play a key role in shaping gameplay experiences. Passionate about crafting and taking ownership of a narrative that can further elevate the player's experience for our VR games.

As a Senior Narrative Designer, you will be accountable for creating and implementing engaging storylines and characters. Working closely with the designers, animators and other departments, ensuring that they are all aligned with the overall creative vision.

The rundown:

  • 12 month fixed term contract

  • Full time 37.5 hours per week

  • Fully remote within the UK

  • Salary is competitive and dependent on experience

Key responsibilities:

  • Work with level designers and writers to craft scenarios that deliver both quality narrative and the story beats across the game.

  • Take ownership of gameplay dialogue implementation.

  • Ensure consistency of voice, tone and theme across the project.

  • Creating and maintaining design documentation.

  • Write specifications for new narrative features.

  • Able to provide critique of others’ work with respect and constructive feedback.

  • A team player with excellent communication skills.

  • Drive the narrative across multiple disciplines.

Requirements

The skills you’ll need:

  • 5+ years’ experience as a narrative, gameplay or level designer focusing on implementing narrative and systems.

  • Take direction as well as ability to drive your own tasks.

  • Excellent understanding of interactive storytelling.

  • Ability to address and incorporate creative feedback in an effective and constructive manner.

  • Well-developed written and verbal communication, documentation skills and the ability to convey abstract concepts.

  • Extensive knowledge of Unreal.

The nice to haves:

  • A keen VR enthusiast, knowledgeable about the trends and hottest games in this sector of the industry and in particular the games design and playable content perspective.

  • Experience with VR development.

  • Script writing experience.

Benefits

We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. You may know us as the developer behind Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and Frenzies. As a publisher, we have also supported the release of other studio’s titles including Little Cities, PowerWash Simulator VR, and Vendetta Forever. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects with a personal, caring touch. We’ve got more incredible titles to be announced soon!

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing interviewing@ndreams.com or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.

We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.

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