Remote Senior Narrative Designer for AAA Games

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Generous paid time off

Home office stipend

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is partnering with a globally recognized game studio to recruit a Senior Game Narrative Designer. This fully remote role lets you craft storylines, characters, and immersive worlds for next-generation AAA titles from your home.

You will collaborate with writers, level designers, and artists to ensure narrative coherence within gameplay, designing interactive dialogues, branching quests, and detailed narrative documents.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in game narrative design or related fields.
• Proven track record of delivering compelling narratives for released video games, preferably in the AAA space.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with a strong grasp of narrative structure and pacing.
• Proficiency with game engines (Unreal Engine, Unity) and scripting languages is a significant advantage.
• Experience with narrative design tools such as Twine or Articy:Draft.
• Strong understanding of player psychology and how to create emotional engagement through narrative.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, essential for remote work.

Responsibilities

• Develop and write engaging game narratives, storylines, character backstories, and dialogue for unannounced AAA titles.
• Design and implement interactive narrative systems, branching dialogues, and quest structures within game engines.
• Collaborate with lead designers, writers, and other disciplines to ensure narrative coherence across the game.
• Create detailed narrative design documents, including plot outlines, character profiles, world-building bibles, and dialogue scripts.
• Work with voice actors and audio teams to ensure emotive delivery of dialogue.
• Provide creative feedback and direction to junior narrative designers and writers.
• Champion the narrative vision throughout development and adapt content for different platforms and mechanics.
• Conduct research to ensure historical, cultural, or thematic accuracy.

Skills

Storytelling

Writing

Editing

Communication

Education

Degree in Creative Writing / Game Design / Literature

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Twine

Articy:Draft

Job description

Placements24 is partnering with a globally recognized game studio to recruit a Senior Game Narrative Designer. This fully remote role lets you craft storylines, characters, and immersive worlds for next-generation AAA titles from your home.

You will collaborate with writers, level designers, and artists to ensure narrative coherence within gameplay, designing interactive dialogues, branching quests, and detailed narrative documents.