Senior Narrative Designer – 6-Month Contract

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🕒 August 7

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Gunfire Games

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

📱 Media

Gaming • B2C • Media

Gunfire Games is a video game development studio known for creating immersive and engaging gaming experiences. Based in Austin, Texas, the studio has released notable titles such as Remnant II, a co-op survival shooter that combines exploration with intense combat, as well as the popular Darksiders franchise. With a focus on innovative gameplay mechanics and rich storytelling, Gunfire Games has built a reputation for delivering high-quality games that resonate with players globally.

📋 Description

• Develop narrative concepts, story arcs, characters, factions, and world lore • Collaborate with creative direction and cross-functional teams to develop and deliver a cohesive narrative vision • Partner with level designers on environmental storytelling and gameplay-driven narrative moments • Write, edit, and implement dialogue, item descriptions, codex entries, barks, and other in-game narrative content • Maintain narrative documentation, including lore guides, dialogue documentation, and narrative flows • Work with cinematic, audio, and voice-over teams on narrative implementation • Use Jira, Trello, and Miro to track narrative tasks, document changes, and maintain cross-discipline alignment • Champion storytelling integrated with gameplay, exploration, combat, and interaction • Perform additional duties as required

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional game development experience in Narrative Design, Game Design, or a closely related discipline • Experience working in Unreal Engine • Shipped at least one AA or AAA title in a Narrative Designer role • Exceptional storytelling, dialogue writing, and world-building abilities • Deep understanding of how narrative supports gameplay, player agency, and level design • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams throughout all phases of game development • Strong communication, documentation, and organizational skills • Proven ability to provide creative feedback and collaborate effectively with senior development teams • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative production environment with evolving project needs • Passion for creating memorable worlds, characters, and stories through interactive experiences • Portfolio pieces demonstrating narrative design work, including shipped games, documentation, dialogue samples, quest design, or comparable interactive storytelling examples • Demonstrated experience crafting narrative for PC and console games • Portfolios primarily consisting of novels, screenplays, film, television, or other non-interactive writing samples are not sufficient unless accompanied by relevant game development experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract opportunity for up to 6 months, with possibility of extension based on project needs, performance, and business requirements • Contract compensation discussed with qualified candidates based on experience, skills, and project needs • Equal opportunity employer

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