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Narrative Director - Narrative - Dark Horror
1 year ago
Why Firesprite?
Founded in 2012 by a group of creative and management veterans with years of industry experience, Firesprite is a visionary game development studio based in the heart of Liverpool’s vibrant game development hub with over 200 team members.
Creating a number of showcase games for PlayStation console and peripheral launches over the years, Firesprite’s core focus is developing innovative and memorable experiences for players on cutting edge gaming hardware. At Firesprite, the end player experience always comes first and the team is passionate about how to best combine the disciplines of design, art and code to deliver games that surprise and delight.
A visionary game development studio founded in 2012, Firesprite builds innovative showcase titles for PlayStation platforms as part of the PlayStation Studios family.
Would you enjoy the freedom to create AAA games working from anywhere in the UK, including our Liverpool studio?
We are looking for a Narrative Director to join our development team on a AAA dark, story-driven horror blockbuster with genre defining goals in Unreal 5. This is an exciting opportunity to own the storytelling of a narrative-driven game. The Narrative Director is ultimately responsible for the quality of the project’s narrative, from scriptwriting to branching, as well as franchise-level development of the game’s universe and lore.
Responsibilities
- Establish and evolve project narrative direction and frameworks.
- Ensure the structural quality of the story as well as the general quality of writing.
- Ensure narrative development delivers alongside the traditional disciplines as a major department within the development team structure.
- Tailor content to maximise narrative-related gameplay opportunities.
- Perform reviews on project milestones, identifying key iteration opportunities to develop world-class storytelling.
- Oversight, planning, and growth of an exceptional team of writers and narrative designers.
- Convincingly present ideas and concepts to the development team and to external parties at executive level.
- Contribute to, establish, and evolve project franchise plans, working alongside cross-media partners and considering sequel/future content opportunities.
Requirements
- ‘Veteran’ levels of experience in game writing / narrative direction
- Encyclopaedic knowledge of storytelling techniques and structure across different mediums, including interactive and branching fiction
- Shipped critically-acclaimed games in a Narrative Director/lead level position, including at least one branching narrative game
- Understanding of how collaboration with traditional game development disciplines can enhance and complement narrative
- A love for horror, ideally with expertise in the genre
- Clear and confident communication style
- Outgoing, positive, leadership style
Firesprite is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, with a commitment to a culture of inclusion and mutual respect for all employees from every walk of life, reflecting the community we make games for. We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.