Narrative Designer

The role

You will shape the Good, Great universe by creating new chapters, characters, and lore. You will design gameplay driven stories and write in game narrative including dialogue, tutorials, and UI copy.

What you will do

• Shape the future of the Good, Great universe through new Chapters, characters, locations, and lore
• Create memorable characters with distinct personalities and motivations
• Pitch original Chapter concepts, seasonal events, and long term story arcs
• Design stories experienced through gameplay
• Collaborate with game designers to reinforce narrative and gameplay
• Write dialogue for customers, recurring characters, and major story moments
• Create tutorials, UI copy, achievements, item descriptions, and flavor text
• Produce narrative documentation that supports localization
• Partner with designers, artists, engineers, QA, production, and community support
• Maintain character bibles, worldbuilding documentation, timelines, and narrative style guides

Required qualifications

• Based in the Los Angeles area, or relocating before your start date
• 3+ years of professional experience as a Narrative Designer, Narrative Writer, Game Writer, or similar narrative focused role in the video game industry
• At least one shipped title
• Proven experience creating engaging dialogue, memorable characters, worldbuilding, and gameplay driven storytelling
• Strong instincts for warmth and restraint
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary game development teams
• Strong portfolio showcasing narrative design, dialogue writing, worldbuilding, character creation, and interactive storytelling
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and computer

Nice to have

• Experience developing narrative for live service games or seasonal events
• Experience writing for mobile free to play games
• Familiarity with Yarn Spinner or similar narrative tools
• Experience writing for localization and multilingual audiences
• Familiarity with Good Pizza, Great Pizza and Good Coffee, Great Coffee

About the company

TapBlaze is an independent game studio dedicated to creating games players will remember for decades. Since 2012, their games have been downloaded more than 300 million times worldwide.