Narrative Designer

8 hours ago

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Embark Studios Ab Full time 60,000 - 1,500,000 per year

As a Narrative Designer, you will be the key link between the story and the gameplay. You will design, implement, and maintain the gameplay systems and interactions that help deliver narrative to the player. You are responsible for helping create functionality and gameplay activities as they pertain to how players interact with quests in the world.

You have an understanding of system design and are a strong collaborator and communicator, capable of working with all game crafts (Design, Code, Art, Audio). You possess excellent design documentation skills and have a keen understanding of how narrative elements connect to and enhance core gameplay mechanics.

Example of responsibilities

Implement, tweak, and balance narrative content and features, working hands-on in cross-disciplinary teams alongside Animators, Coders, and other design disciplines.

Collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Design Director, narrative, and other designers to refine narrative concepts and ideas into tangible designs, prototypes, and features.

Act as a champion of the gameplay and narrative design in cross-discipline teams.

We would love if you have

A creative and curious mind

3+ years of experience designing and making games.

Proficiency with the Unreal Engine (or a similar engine) and experience with Blueprints and/or scripting for content implementation.

A good grasp of AAA PvE and PvP gameplay and systems design, including player psychology and gameplay mechanics.

Ability to switch between high-level system design and implementation work.

A good knowledge and familiarity with the various disciplines, coding, animation, game physics, 3D Art, etc.

Professional English communication skills.

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together. We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability. Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table. Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can't wait to hear from you (in English)

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