Narrative Design Intern (Summer 2024)

Job Description

Why join us?

• You want to bring your talent to the DON’T NOD Montreal team and work on the new narrative game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, led by key members of the team behind Life is Strange ;
• You want to join a diverse and committed team, both in its culture and in the content of the games it creates;
• You're looking for an environment where you'll be able to interact with all the teams in a simple and efficient manner;
• You'd like to use your narrative design and testing skills to contribute to an original and meaningful experience based on its characters.

Work schedule: This is a full-time internship (40 hours per week, Monday to Friday).
Compensation: An hourly rate of 20,60$/h will be offered.
Duration: This internship will take place during summer 2024 over a period of 6 months.
Location: This internship offers the possibility of working either at the studio or in Flex mode.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Montreal studio’s Associate Producer, your role will be to help our Narrative Designer with various tasks such as playtesting, dialogue timing adjustments, integration follow-up, script exports and formatting.

Your mission will be to:

• Support our Creative Director and our Narrative Designer in ensuring that narrative design elements are cohesive and tested;
• Support in tuning and testing the relationship system;
• Playtest and provide feedback about the game;
• Set and fine-tune silences and timings post recordings;
• Test dialogues and report any bugs found to the Programmer in charge of the dialogue system;
• Help with setting character moods (i.e., facial expression based on presets) depending on the scene’s context and look-ats (i.e., where the characters should be looking at);
• Help Level Designers with polishing timings of dialogues, game text and label placement;
• Prepare, export, and clean recording scripts;
• Enter and track game texts (labels, tutorial texts, menu texts, interaction texts, etc.);
• Track and integrate texts related to collectibles;
• Assist with exports and tracking for localization;
• Track and integrate voice overs related to miscellaneous interactions.

Qualifications

The must-have skills we're looking for

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine;
• General knowledge of version control systems.

What would set you apart?

• Experience with Perforce;
• An interest in branching narrative in games;
• Visual scripting experience.

Additional Information

At DON’T NOD Montreal, we celebrate diversity and inclusivity within our games as well as our teams. We commit to equal opportunities and non-discrimination in our hiring process. We are respectful of the principles of equal employment opportunities, and that is why we encourage women, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, First Nations people, people living with a disability, visible minorities, as well as any other person who can contribute to the diversity of our studio to apply for our positions.

We build close-knit teams to encourage a fulfilling work environment for all our employees.

Company Description

DON’T NOD is an independent publisher and developer, based in Paris and Montreal, creating original narrative games in the adventure ( Life is Strange , Tell Me Why , Twin Mirror ), RPG ( Vampyr ), and action ( Remember Me ) genres. The studio is internationally renowned for unique narrative experiences with engaging stories and characters, and has worked with industry leading publishers: Square Enix , Microsoft , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Focus Entertainment , and Capcom . DON’T NOD creates and publishes its own IPs developed in-house, as well as using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with third-party developers whose editorial visions parallel the company’s own.

Step into the studio's immersive and innovative universe at dont-nod.com