The Role
Lead a team of narrative designers, set design standards, review content quality, integrate narrative with gameplay, and maintain documentation for game narratives.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a pod of narrative designers across projects
- Define narrative design standards, workflows, and best practices
- Review narrative content for quality, consistency, and gameplay alignment
- Ensure narrative integrates cleanly with gameplay systems and production pipelines
- Communicate narrative intent clearly to internal teams and external clients
- Maintain high-quality narrative documentation and handoff processes
- Build narrative structure of a game and outline details of the game world, characters, and lore
- Write and compose cut scenes and narrative sequences.
- Formalize documents, update the narrative structure and its implementation, according to principles established by the client.
- Describe narrative situations, create documents defining their content and role in the course of the game.
- Participate in the development of specific features, assets, narrative/scripted events, as well as in their implementation and debug.
- Throughout the production, make necessary changes to narrative systems and scripted events according to feedback, to provide a consistent narrative experience and a desired player experience.
- Experience leading or mentoring narrative designers
- Deep understanding of narrative design across multiple game genres
- Strong storytelling, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to balance creative vision with production and client constraints
- Proficient knowledge of industry-standard design tools
- Familiarity with collaborations and handoff tools used in game development pipelines
- You understand the gameplay elements and how they impact a story
- Experience as a narrative manger or lead writer on a AA or AAA game
- 5+ years of writing or narrative design experience in the game industry
- Good at written English
- Experience working in co-development or multi-project environments is a plus
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest independent video game development companies. We are headquartered in Singapore with offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Specializing in full-cycle game development and art production, we have delivered high-quality content for more than 1,500 console, PC, and mobile games. Our clients include 23 of the top 25 gaming companies worldwide. Visit www.virtuosgames.com to find out how we can make games better, together.
