Narrative Designer — Shape the Good, Great Universe (LA)

TapBlaze, LLC

Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

TapBlaze, LLC is seeking a Narrative Designer to shape the Good, Great universe for Good Pizza, Great Pizza, and Good Coffee, Great Coffee. This full-time, onsite role is based in Los Angeles, CA, requiring presence five days a week.

You will craft chapters, characters, and lore, collaborating with designers, artists, engineers, QA, and production to create gameplay-driven storytelling. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of professional experience and a strong portfolio in narrative design,

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional experience as Narrative Designer, Narrative Writer, Game Writer, or similar role in the video game industry.
  • At least one shipped title.
  • Proven experience creating engaging dialogue, memorable characters, worldbuilding, and gameplay-driven storytelling.
  • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary game teams and maintaining narrative documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Expand the Good, Great Universe through new Chapters, recurring characters, locations, organizations, traditions, and lore.
  • Write in-game narrative and dialogue with distinct character voices within line limits.
  • Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, QA, production, and community support to reinforce gameplay with story.
  • Produce narrative documentation to support localization across languages.

Skills

Narrative design
Dialogue writing
Worldbuilding
Character creation
Interactive storytelling

Tools

Yarn Spinner

Job description

TapBlaze, LLC is seeking a Narrative Designer to shape the Good, Great universe for Good Pizza, Great Pizza, and Good Coffee, Great Coffee. This full-time, onsite role is based in Los Angeles, CA, requiring presence five days a week.

You will craft chapters, characters, and lore, collaborating with designers, artists, engineers, QA, and production to create gameplay-driven storytelling. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of professional experience and a strong portfolio in narrative design,

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