Contract Narrative Producer - Game Story & Dialogue

insomniac; United States; On-site; USD 58,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Insomniac Games is seeking a Narrative Coordinator to help craft the player experience by working closely with writers to track and create story assets. The role involves preparing materials for voice-over sessions and maintaining dialogue documentation to support localization and timely development milestones.

You will collaborate with programmers, narrative designers, localization teams, and casting to ensure story continuity and high-quality dialogue across projects.

Responsibilities

• Creates and oversees writing infrastructure by organizing directories and subdirectories for scripts and reference materials.
• Prepares scripts, videos, communiques, and other materials needed for voice-over (VO) sessions.
• Shares responsibility for emergent dialogue pipeline by working closely with programmers and narrative designers, creating, and modifying rule sets to trigger dialogue, and tuning frequency to address feedback.
• Maintains dialogue scope documentation and assists Project Management in scheduling writers.
• Works with Dialogue Supervisor on casting process and actor schedules; ensures all script lines are ready for recording.
• Ensures all lines have appropriate metadata tags so dialogue assets can be easily categorized and organized for localization.
• Partners with Localization Project Management to define and track deliverables for timely handoff.
• Works with writers to determine appropriate timing for implementation and review of dialogue based on project milestones/requirements.
• Works with writers and narrative designers to fix in‑game dialogue issues.
• Provides writing support as needed, including first draft dialogue.
• Participates in peer review of scripts and writer's room sessions for brainstorming, story development, and narrative problem solving.
• Responsible for game and franchise continuity, reports issues as needed and works with appropriate parties to rectify.
• Creates and maintains pipeline documentation and training for Story Department tools.
• Partners with Cinematics Project Management to assist in performance capture preparations.
• Attends story and design meetings to stay current on project status.
• Remains abreast of design changes that require script updates, rewrites, and down‑stream production plans
• Other duties may be assigned

Job description

Insomniac Games is seeking a Narrative Coordinator to help craft the player experience by working closely with writers to track and create story assets. The role involves preparing materials for voice-over sessions and maintaining dialogue documentation to support localization and timely development milestones.

You will collaborate with programmers, narrative designers, localization teams, and casting to ensure story continuity and high-quality dialogue across projects.