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Senior Narrative Designer - 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 Senior Narrative Designer on a story driven horror blockbuster with genre defining goals. This is an exciting opportunity to take a key role in the creation of a narrative-driven game.
Working alongside Narrative Direction, Writing and Design teams you will play an important role in the seamless marriage of storytelling with game and level design. This huge, highly ambitious, branching AAA project takes atmosphere, storytelling, player agency and narrative firmly into ground-breaking territory.
- Work with the Narrative Director and the writing team to contribute to the game’s overall story development
- Work with the design team to articulate story beats through core gameplay
- Work with art to identify opportunities/techniques for environmental storytelling
- Help determine the best narrative technique for each storytelling opportunity
- Be one of the key custodians of the branching narrative across gameplay, cinematic content, dialogue, and text
- Create a playable flow of the intended experience to ratify the branching requirements at the start of a level’s development
- Ensure continuity and robustness through all branches and their consequences
- Review the game to identify narrative improvements and specify what those improvements should be
- Work alongside the Design team to consider narrative impact with discoverable content (items, pick-ups, environmental interactive elements)
- Determine and work with tools to deliver the narrative design
- Help grow, develop, and champion, the narrative design team within the wider team
- Significant professional game development experience
- Shipped at least two narrative-focused titles in a narrative design role
- Exceptional knowledge of interactive storytelling techniques
- Obsessive about delivering the very best player experience
- Working knowledge of game design and mission design principles
- A great communicator who is respected by their peers
- Ability to add to the project – proactive and driven, not waiting for tasks from other
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.