CareerPlan

Senior Narrative Designer & Writer

South AfricaFull-time2026-10-30
Hybrid

Core

Crafting immersive narratives, characters, and dialogue for video games to define player experience.

Role type

Senior Narrative Designer & Writer

Builds

Narrative-driven video games

Domain

Video Games / Interactive Entertainment

Required skills

Interactive storytelling, narrative system design, game engine scripting, character development, environmental storytelling, lore integration, scriptwriting, tone consistency

Preferred skills

Game design principles, platform adaptation, trend awareness in interactive narrative

Technologies

Unreal Engine, UMG, Twine

Responsibilities

Develop storylines, character backstories, and dialogue; Design quest structures and branching dialogue; Collaborate with designers to align narrative with gameplay; Integrate narrative into game worlds via environmental storytelling; Maintain narrative documentation (story bibles, profiles); Ensure tone and lore consistency; Provide feedback to team members.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC