Game Writer

CRYSTAL DRAGON INTERACTIVE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming studio in Singapore seeks a dedicated lore specialist to enhance their next title's world-building. This role involves crafting detailed lore, writing in-game content, and collaborating with designers to ensure narrative continuity. Ideal candidates will have experience in narrative writing and a strong understanding of game storytelling systems.

Qualifications

• Experience writing lore or narrative content for games or RPGs.
• Portfolio showing macro and micro world-building.
• Understanding of branching dialogue and player agency.

Responsibilities

• Develop timelines, cultural touchstones, and political structures.
• Draft in-game writing including dialogue and item descriptions.
• Maintain a searchable lore documentation.

Skills

World-building

In-game writing

Collaboration

Reverse-engineering lore

Narrative integration

Excellent written English

Education

Portfolio showcasing narrative content

Background in linguistics or constructed languages

Tools

Git

Perforce

Job description

Please e-mail resumes along with portfolio or writing samples info to [e-mail]

About Us

We’re an independent PC & console studio founded in Singapore in 2025. Our core design team handles high-level plot beats and gameplay structure; what we need now is a dedicated lore specialist to breathe life into the spaces between.

The Role

You’ll own the world-building layer of our next title. The main story arc and mission flow are largely locked—your mission is to excavate the history, cultures, factions, myths, everyday slang, and diegetic artifacts that make that framework feel ancient, lived-in, and irresistibly explorable. Think codices, in-game books, barks, item flavor text, quest briefs, environmental storytelling cues, menu copy, and marketing one-liners.

Key Responsibilities

• Deep-dive world-building – Develop timelines, cultural touchstones, political structures, religions, technology, and regional quirks that logically support existing story beats.

• In-game writing – Draft and iterate on dialogue, journals, inscriptions, UI/tool-tip copy, and incidental VO scripts.

• Lore documentation – Maintain a single-source-of-truth lore bible that is searchable, version-controlled, and designer-friendly.

• Narrative integration – Partner with level, quest, and combat designers to seed lore hooks directly into layouts, objectives, and mechanics.

• Tone & continuity gatekeeping – Review all narrative assets for consistency with established canon, voice, and style.

• Collaboration & feedback – Present work in sprint reviews, incorporate cross-disciplinary feedback, and give constructive notes on narrative content produced by other teams.

Requirements

1. Any professional experience writing lore or narrative content for shipped games, interactive media, tabletop RPGs, or speculative fiction.

2. A portfolio that shows both macro world-building and micro in-game writing (dialogue, item descriptions, etc.) is very helpful.

3. Proven ability to reverse-engineer lore that logically explains pre-existing plot events and gameplay systems.

4. Strong understanding of branching dialogue, pacing, and player agency in game narratives.

5. Excellent written English and a toolbox of concise, punchy prose styles.

6. Comfort with version control (Git or Perforce) and collaborative writing tools is a plus.

7. Familiarity with scripting, visual scripting, or programming is a large plus.

8. Background in linguistics or constructed languages is a plus.

9. Published fiction or tabletop sourcebooks is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Within three months, the team can answer any lore question by searching your well-structured bible.

• Playtesters organically reference in-game myths, jokes, or region-specific slang you created.

• Designers report that your lore sparks new side-quest or environment ideas rather than constraining them.

• Marketing lifts lines from your item descriptions because they’re too good not to share.