Remote Narrative Designer & Writer: Craft Game Lore

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Narrative Designer & Writer for its story-rich game projects. You will craft plots, develop characters, and write dialogue that drives immersive worlds.

This fully remote role within South Africa emphasizes collaboration with a distributed team, delivering narrative cohesion across gameplay, quests, and localization.

Join us to shape emotional arcs from your home office and contribute innovative ideas for narrative elements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Narrative Designer or Writer with shipped titles.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading with a strong portfolio.
• Deep understanding of narrative structures and interactive storytelling.
• Excellent communication and ability to work remotely within SA.

Responsibilities

• Develop overarching narrative frameworks, plots, and backstories.
• Write dialogue, quest text, item descriptions, and in-game narrative content.
• Collaborate with designers to integrate narrative into gameplay.
• Create and maintain narrative design docs and story outlines.
• Ensure tone, voice, and lore consistency across the game.
• Coordinate with voice actors and localization teams.
• Contribute ideas for storyboarding, cinematics, player experience.
• Iterate narratives based on playtesting feedback.

Skills

Narrative Design

Story Writing

Character Development

Dialogue Writing

Collaboration

Remote Work

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Narrative Designer & Writer for its story-rich game projects. You will craft plots, develop characters, and write dialogue that drives immersive worlds.

This fully remote role within South Africa emphasizes collaboration with a distributed team, delivering narrative cohesion across gameplay, quests, and localization.

Join us to shape emotional arcs from your home office and contribute innovative ideas for narrative elements.