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Roles & Responsibilities
Create and maintain the game's universe, including its history, cultures, civilizations, factions, geography, mythology, and political landscape.
Develop compelling lore that supports gameplay, characters, environments, and future content expansions.
Write engaging narratives for the main campaign, side quests, events, and seasonal content.
Design memorable characters with distinct personalities, motivations, relationships, and story arcs.
Write in-game dialogue, cinematics, cutscenes, tutorials, item descriptions, flavor text, and environmental storytelling.
Collaborate with Game Designers to ensure narrative supports gameplay mechanics, progression, and player experience.
Work closely with Concept Artists and Art Directors to establish a consistent visual and thematic identity for the game world.
Create and maintain narrative documentation, including story bibles, faction guides, character profiles, timelines, location descriptions, and terminology.
Design branching dialogue, player choices, and multiple narrative outcomes using tools such as Twine or Articy Draft.
Ensure consistency of lore across all game systems, characters, environments, UI text, marketing materials, and live operations.
Review and edit narrative content based on design changes, production feedback, and playtesting results.
Research mythology, history, science fiction, fantasy, and other reference materials to inspire original world-building concepts.
Contribute ideas for new regions, characters, enemies, events, collectibles, and world-expansion content.
Collaborate with Localization and QA teams to ensure narrative quality and consistency across all supported languages.
Balance storytelling with gameplay, ensuring narrative enhances rather than interrupts the player experience.
Maintain organized documentation and version control for all narrative assets throughout development.
Preferred Skills
Strong creative writing, storytelling, and world-building abilities.
Experience writing for games, interactive media, or branching narratives.
Familiarity with narrative design tools such as Twine, Articy Draft, or similar software.
Understanding of game development pipelines and cross-functional collaboration.
Ability to create consistent lore across multiple content releases.
Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.
Passion for fantasy, science fiction, strategy games, RPGs, or collectible card games.
Experience using AI-assisted creative tools for ideation and rapid content generation is a plus.
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