Writer and Narrative Designer

Awe Interactive Limited; England; Teletrabalho; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Flexible hours

Remote-friendly

Employer pension contributions

Parental leave

Long-term impact on project

Resumo da oferta

Awe Interactive Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a mid‑level writer and narrative designer to join a tightly knit team on a narrative‑driven FPS RPG. You will craft branching dialogue, world lore, and character interactions, collaborating with quest designers and the Game Director to weave story deeply into gameplay.

You’ll help shape quest design, lore, and in‑engine narrative with autonomy, writing flavorful dialogue and in‑game flavor text.

Qualificações

• Experience as a Narrative Designer and/or Writer in videogame development with a shipped title or substantial in‑development work.
• Strong portfolio showing dialogue and character depth.
• Understanding of how narrative and quest design intersect with gameplay.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a small team.
• Excellent written English and regional UK knowledge is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Write high‑quality dialogue with humor and subtlety for characters.
• Build interactive narrative and bring in‑game characters to life.
• Collaborate with quest designers to integrate story with gameplay.
• Align dialogue with game pillars and the project vision.
• Develop character bios, motivations and storytelling briefs for artists.
• Support casting, VO direction and narration during later stages.

Conhecimentos

Narrative design

Dialogue writing

Storytelling

Collaboration

Ferramentas

Unreal Engine 5

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Awe Interactive is a fully independent and innovative game development studio focused on creating a unique, immersive, and engaging narrative-driven FPS RPG in UE5.

Our mid-size, tight-knit and experienced team has a passion for storytelling, game mechanics, and creating unforgettable gaming experiences. Our mission is to create feelings of Awe for our players.

We are currently seeking a talented and experienced Mid-level Writer and Narrative Designer to join our collaborative team and work on our upcoming title, which combines the worlds of humans, robots, and human-machine hybrids.

The Role

You are a Narrative Designer who has also written interactive fiction and dialogue, or a writer who has done narrative design as part of a videogame development team.

You will work closely with our quest designers and Game Director to build depth in our characters, help design our quests, and world and craft compelling, grounded and authentic dialogue.

In this role your focus will be on day-to-day narrative, working in-engine with autonomy as part of the team to write branching dialogue and in-game flavour text. You’ll also help make quest design decisions, tying the moment-to-moment narrative and character motivations seamlessly into gameplay.

Later in the project, you’ll be part of the team supporting any character performance capture and voiceover recording.

Responsibilities

We are a relatively small team, and so the role has variety. You can expect to do the following:

• Write high-quality, engaging and meaningful dialogue with humour and subtlety.
• Build out a compelling interactive narrative and bring in-game characters to life.
• Work closely with quest designers to ensure story and gameplay are seamlessly integrated into gameplay, helping make narrative and quest-level decisions tie into the overarching game design.
• Work with narrative leadership and the Game Director to ensure the game’s dialogue and narrative is in line with game pillars and vision.
• Be an expert on all in-game characters and build out their bios, motivations and personalities in briefs for artists and animators.
• Work within the established narrative and world-building framework, enriching the existing lore and major story beats.
• Maintain a high level of writing quality while working within design requirements, technical constraints, and project deadlines.
• Provide constructive feedback and creative input to improve the overall player experience.
• Champion best practice across interactive fiction, narrative design and game writing.
• Update, iterate and extend existing writing.
• Collaborate with the team during later stages of development to assist with casting, character voice iteration and VO (voiceover) and performance recording sessions.
• Write marketing or other supporting copy for the game later in development.

Requirements

• Experience as a Narrative Designer and/or Writer in videogame development, with at least one shipped game (or substantial experience on an in-development title that did not ship).
• A strong portfolio showcasing your dialogue writing and ability to craft character depth.
• An excellent understanding of how narrative and quest design intersect and complement each other in video games.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a close-knit team environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• Passion for video games and a deep understanding of good game design practices.
• A thorough understanding of the nuance of the UK over the last 30 years, its culture, regional dialects and slang.
• A very high level of proficiency in written English.
• Technical proficiency with the usual processes of remote working and videogame development.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in using Unreal Engine 5 or similar game engines to implement narrative text or logic.
• Previous experience assisting with VO recording, casting, or performance direction.
• Familiarity with the FPS or RPG genre.
• Experience of living in Wales.
• Experience writing authentic UK rural or regional characters in fiction.
• Some experience with remote work or working with remote teams.

What We Can Offer

• An opportunity to work in a fully-independent team on a unique title set in an extremely narratively interesting world.
• A workplace where you will have a distinct voice and be trusted to work autonomously and to enjoy ownership of a substantial piece of the game.
• A long-term role with real impact on the game’s development and quality.
• Flexible working hours, and strong support for other forms of flexible working.
• Excellent provisions for parental leave.
• Employer pension contributions.

Our entire team is remote but this role requires availability and concurrent co-working with the rest of the team between 10:00 and 16:00 UTC/BST.

Salary is dependent on experience.